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  Using my brand new swiss cambered bar, never having used such a piece of kit before, i go to failure to test my strength. Managing 100kg 220lb for a new pb. I attempted 110kg and moved it a wee bit, but no cigar! Goalzzzz Hardest bit was the balance, stalling any momentum and making it a movement of multiple eccentric pause presses lol

 Tested my current strength levels, on seated rear press today. Started on 100kg (2 sets of singles to warm up) before then going up 120kg. I didn't feel 120kg at all, making it much easier than last weeks effort. As such I jumped up to 130kg. I felt very confident and approached the bar with a relaxed disposition.  130kg flew up, perfectly even. Was tempted to push for more, but 10kg improvement in a week is more than enough.  I didn't want to tire my body. My Mrs has covid at the mo, and I don't want to make myself ill by burning the midnight oil too much. But I still wanted to hit side delts at least a wee bit. So I did a new exercise taught to me by my matey Skully Karlani. DB Discus. I used to be a discus thrower when I was younger, and it's nice to know that it must be like riding a bike, you never forget. Style felt smooth and the 9kg dumbell felt like a good choice. Overall I did 2 sets on each arm. Thanks for reading my weights journal. Big Al 💪 🍺 🦖 

++Quick note before I begin; I knocked the exposure settings on my camera part way through the workout, I've tried my best at making them watchable, but the video for the most part is deffo on the ugly side lol you've been warned!++ Focusing on front delts for the majority of today's workout, I opened up with seated rear delts. Aiming for 2-3reps each set, on an ascending bar until failure. It took a long time to warm up today, being freezing cold in the gym (the bar was giving my hands freezer burn lol), but I managed to get up to 120kg for a single (following a decent amount of work on the way up). Before then dropping the weight down to 90kg It was on 90kg where I did the majority of the work, the final rep on the final set was immense! A proper fight, and I was beginning to black out going for the lockout. So I deffo called that weight perfect, getting 2 sets of 4 heavy duty style reps (I was aiming for 3-4 reps on these sets) I then did dumbell presses. I was very tir...