Bring The Pain

Thirteen working sets moved as much weight as twenty-six did. Day 2 of the block, logged — and a 240 kg leg press that resets the top of the board.

Bring The Pain — Biohacking
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Sarita Sofi, and the hoodie that named this post.

The hoodie is hers. Animal, from the Universal series — Bring The Pain across the back. Nobody planned the wardrobe for the occasion, and it turned out to be the only thing worth quoting all day.

Good words to borrow for the gym.


Day 2 — Legs

Second session of MONSTER 2.0. Here is the whole thing.

ExerciseSets × RepsLoadVolume
Hack / V-squat4 × 1080 kg3,200 kg
Leg press3 × 10240 kg7,200 kg
heaviest load of the block so far
Bulgarian split squat3 × 10bodyweightreps only
Hip thrustskipped
Leg extension3 × 1559 kg2,655 kg
Calf raise on stairsbodyweightreps only

Cardio was walking to the gym and walking home. No stair climber — legs had already done the work. No abs, which is how it is written; those sit on Day 1 and Day 4.


The number worth keeping

Day 1 · chest, back, absDay 2 · legs
Working sets2613
Total reps249145
Tonnage13,218 kg13,055 kg
Tonnage per set508 kg1,004 kg

Half the sets, and the total load lands within 163 kg of the previous session. Legs move almost exactly double per set.

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Which is a good argument against judging a session by the length of the exercise list.

Day 2 reads short on paper — six lines, two of them unloaded, thirteen working sets. It moved the same weight as a day with twice the sets and a hundred more reps.

Tonnage per set is the number that compares. Set count mostly measures how long you were in the building.

The leg press at 240 kg is the first genuinely heavy number in the block, and it goes to the top of the board as the one to beat.


What goes in next time

Next session
Reps in reserveNothing got an RIR this time. Adding it is the cheapest upgrade available — it is what makes 80 kg this week and 80 kg next week actually comparable.
Hip thrustSkipped today, back in on the next legs day. It is the main posterior-chain movement of the session and the one that pairs with everything else already going well.
Stair climberSensibly left out after a leg day. It picks back up on the next cardio slot — ten minutes was always a taste, not the dose.

Everything else went in clean, which is the useful part. Two sessions in, the block has moved 26,273 kg and the loads are already climbing.

Day 3 is shoulders and arms.


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Related Reading

MONSTER 2.0 — The Blueprint — the six-day programme this is Day 2 of.

Thirteen Tonnes and a Clean Heart — Day 1, and the clean ECG that cleared the block.

No Capsule Adds Hours — the recovery stack running underneath all of this.