Friday 3/28
Axle Continental & Press
- 220 lbs x 10 singles
Lat Pull Down
- Various weight x 20, 10, 5, 25
Not a bad session, though not super long. I’d like to get better at the continental as that’s currently my weak point putting an axle overhead.
Monday 3/10
Axle Clean & Press 75 kg 3 x 3 strict, 95 kg 3 x 3 push press
Z-Press 135 lbs x 8, 6, 6, 6
Pull Ups 4 x 6
Band Resisted Good Mornings 4 x 25
Some pressing. I power cleaned the axle up to an attempted continental at 105 kg that re-strained my lower back. Sometimes I can be a real dummy.
Friday 3/7
Push Press 225 lbs x 3, 255 lbs x 1, 270 lbs x 1, 235 lbs x 4, 3, 2, 1
Log Rows 270 lbs 3 x 5
Pull Ups 3 x 6
Banded Good Mornings 4 x 25
270 lbs was a PR overhead. Maybe only by 5 lbs, but I’ll take it. Unfortunately I seem to have tweaked my lower back. Since I’m doing a squat only competition in the morning, this might wind up biting me in the ass. Oh well, just how it goes I suppose.
Saturday 2/22
Bench Press worked up to 255 lbs x 1,
w/ Slingshot 255 lbs x 4
275 lbs x 3
295 lbs x 1
225 lbs x 12
Axle Clean & Press 55 kg x 10
75 kg x 6
95 kg x 4
Stone to 52″ 240 lbs x 5
Dumbbell Hammer Curls 25 lbs x 50 reps each arm
Pretty solid pressing followed by the first time I’ve touched an atlas stone in about 20 months. Overall I’m pretty pleased with today’s training.
Friday 2/7
Bench Press 235 lbs 3 x 3, 155 lbs 3 x 8 w/ feet up
Push Press 225 lbs x 3, 3, 4
Chest Supported Rows 115 lbs 4 x 8
Pull Ups x 6, 3
Pretty good session. Benching is feeling more solid, and it felt good to put some weight overhead as well. The only lousy-ness occurred at the very end when I was just bushed and couldn’t decently do pull ups. Oh well, so it goes.
Thursday 1/23
Bench Press 215 lbs x 5, 5, 4, 1
Axle Press, first rep strict 75 kg x 3, 5, 7
Overall, not a great session. On my last rep of my last set benching my right shoulder slipped and I had to ditch the bar. That always sucks, and was embarrassing. Oh well, so it goes.
Monday 1/20
Bench Press 225 lbs 3 x 3, 245 lbs x 1, 185 lbs x 10 CG
Chest Supported Rows 110 lbs 4 x 8
Lat Pull Downs 4 x 6
Axle Continental & Press worked up to a miss at 90 kg + axle
Benching today felt halfway decent, which was nice after the total squatting shit show of last session. I also got to lift with the other guy who trains for strongman, and played around with an axle for the first time. It was a lot of fun.
Thursday 1/9
Push Press 250 lbs x 3 singles, 225 lbs 3 x 3
Bench Press 205 lbs 4 x 4
Lat Pull Downs 5 x 8
Barbell Rows 225 lbs x 5, 235 lbs x 5, 250 lbs x 15
This session improved as it went along. Starting out I was aiming for triples at 250, but my lower back was having none of that after deadlifting yesterday. Benching is forever going to be a long slog. Rowing was pretty solid though.
Saturday 12/30 Training
Clean & Push Press 245 lbs 5 x 2
Front Squat 225 lbs x 3, 275 lbs x 3, 300 lbs x 3, 305 lbs x 2
Snatch Grip Deadlift 315 lbs x 3, 365 lbs x 3, 405 lbs x 1, 415 lbs x 1, 425 lbs x 1
Chest Supported Rows 5 x 8
Due to sudden life changes I had to take a long break from training. Not fun, but sometimes that’s just what happens. Today I got to train with my brother-in-law and a friend of his. My BIL is a division I collegiate discus thrower, so he definitely knows his way around the weightroom. Overall it felt really good to knock the dust off. Nothing crazy heavy, and mostly low volume.
Saturday 12/6 Training
Push Press 225 lbs 2, 245 lbs x 1, 260 lbs x 3, 2, 1, 240 lbs x 6
Wide Grip Pull Ups BW + 50 lbs 5 x 3
Strict Rows w/ 5 count pause at top 155 lbs 5 x 5
Band Resisted Push Ups 5 x 12
Pretty happy with how tonight went. 260 x 3 was a new PR. I’m still a long way from where I’d like to be right now, but progress is progress and I’ll take it. Adding the pause at the top of the rows made it extremely difficult, as can be noted by the extreme drop in weight used. We’ll see if it’s worth the trouble.
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