Hit a push day today. Vertical focus, so mostly shoulders and tri's. But with some chest too. Felt great as usual. Have off tommorow so don't have to worry about training till Monday. But I'm gonna get in some minor isolation movements Sunday anyway. Just cause I can.

Also vsn def needs more lifters. What are you guys doooooiiiiing?!?!?! Lift shit!

Do I sense an incoming campaign to conquer the forum? I mean your right, it would be pretty easy tbh. 

Try not to squish all of them tho, keeping around some slaver labor would be nice. 

Got my swiss bar in the mail yesterday. Did some ohp with it as well as some benching.

Feels fucking AWESOME. All kinds of chest and tri activation benching with it, and feels awesome on the delts when overhead pressing. (Sorry for the quality, my phone sucks)

You guys, you guys, you guys! Guess what!

I went to yoga class today, like I often do Fridays, but for some reason it was stupid small - just me and another woman. So the instructor says he is offering your inversion of choice and asks if the headstand is in my practice (because you can't just do yoga, you have to actively practice it. Yoga has so much weird language involved *eyeroll*. It's almost as hard as the poses). Anyway I told him that it's like my life goal right now, but I can do them against the wall. Instructor suggests that I go do that. I got up and he had me make a couple of adjustments and then he asked if I actually had any weight on my head. I said not much, and nodded it back and forth between my arms. He was impressed with my shoulder and back strength to hold myself up and called it almost a headless headstand.

So no I still can't hold one for very long in the center of the room, but I'm getting better. This is definitely progress. I think it's a pretty clear indication that the exercises y'all gave me are starting to pay off.

Internet advice that actually works, tell me you are not impressed. 

Seriously though, very nice work! At this stage you'll experience further strength gains at a quick pace - and don't be afraid to gradually (and carefully) add weight to your exercises to keep it challenging. 

To keep it interesting you could try push presses. Its pretty much normal barbell standing shoulder presses which you are already doing, but with a little twist.
You add extra weight to the barbell until it gets so heavy you could only press it once with good form, so what you do is use leg drive to get the bar started the first few inches and then you push explosively with your shoulders.
The speed of the exercise and the fact you're working with more weight than you can actually handle makes it the best upper body/shoulder exercise there is. Nothing builds upper body strength like that. Its my favorite exercise which I'm doing with 230lbs now.  
Demonstration:  (don't be irritated by the fact that its a crossfit vid, its one of the classic exercise they stole from regular weight lifting)

 Kind of a random comment here, but carb-loading has been something of a revelation for me. Lifting is so much more productive now that I do it. Protein gets all the attention, but it is really more for repairing muscles post-workout than fuel. I mix a carb-powder supplement (Karbolyn -- preferably unflavored) with water, milk, and some flavoring-agent of my choosing -- mango pulp being my favorite choice. It has been what I was expecting creatine would be when I used to take that.

This also coaxes me into my workout sessions since I tend to not want to go -- don't want my drinks to go to waste, can't leave 'em in the fridge forever either. I used to like lifting when I was playing sports competitively. Now that I'm not, I don't care that much. I'm fine with my body and functional strength. I just go because without proper physical activity I get fidgety and my mind becomes lazy.

So, feeling some discomfort in my left quads. Not painful and normally I would not care, there is just one problem.


I have to squat today. Sigh.

Gonna hope I don't kill myself. If I disappear its because I am lying crushed underneath a fully loaded barbell.

Today I had an off-day, but then I saw my 200lbs/90kg barbell sitting there all lonely and sad. Nice guy as I am I said what the heck, cleaned it to shoulder level and overhead-pressed it. That felt so laughably easy that I increased the weight until I broke my shoulder press with-good-form- record by 2 kilograms! So without using any leg drive and without using a lifting belt I shoulder-pressed 102.5kg or 223lbs, standing.  
I don't want to boast, but very few natural lifters can shoulder-press that much weight. Thats really not bad for a 186cm guy. 

I'll never do drugs, ever!  - But sometimes I think if I could compete at a professional level if I did. 

Have you tried varying your workload and keeping your training varied? Which means not sticking to the same old 3 sets of 8 reps regime, and not doing the same exercises day in day out. I recommend throwing in 5x5 weeks, and maybe even some 3x3's.
I've found my muscles respond really well to exercises with very heavy weights and only 5 repetitions (compound only of course), that gave me a total turbo boost back when I thought I was done with making progress, and most importantly doing 5 and less reps dramatically increases strength.
Another thing you could do is breaking your plateau with a totally crazy plan. Do 5x5s, add random drop sets, partials and forced reps into the mix so your body freaks out and cannot get used to the weights and exercises. 

Whats your exercise plan anyway?