Training 11/17/2015

Bench @ X-Factor

Bench Press
135 x5
135 x5
185 x5
230 x5
265 x5
300 x5
265 x5
230 x5

A1 Blast Strap Rows
3x12

A2 Blast Strap Fat Man Rows
3x12

B1 Seated Incline Hammer Curls
20's 2x12

B2 DB Tate Presses
30's 2x12

B3 MB Resisted Front Raises
2x12 Each

Bench was great, everything else was mehhh. Extreme elbow irritation, possibly pain during the assistance work. Felt like it needed to pop or something and it was screaming. Feel a hundred years old lately. 

 

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."

-Betty Friedan

 

Doesn't sound like you lift much Betty...

Training 11/16/2015

Dead Lift @ VSU

Dead 
135 x5
135 x5
185 x5
225 x3
275 x3
330 x3
375 x3
425 x3
470 x1

A1 Band Resisted KB Swings
MB and a 25 x10
MB and a 35 2x10

A2 RG Cable Pulldown
135 3x10

B1 Face Pulls
Purple Band
3x10

B2 Reverse Hyper
80lbs 3x10

Great day overall. I am shocked my dead lift is coming back so fast, but I can't complain. Technique seems to be getting better too although I can not be sure since I have no one to coach me and filming myself is difficult and narcissistic. I missed a squat workout in  here somewhere in my training log, but I know it hit my training max goal of 415x1 and it felt good.

 

"I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity."

-Diana Vreeland

Training 11/9/2015

Bench @ X-Factor

Bench Press
135 x5
185 x3
225 x3
245 x3
280 x3
315 x3
350 x1

A1 Blast Strap Pushups
5x10

A2 Blast Strap Fat Man Rows
5x10

Good day although not much was done. I am trying to figure out why I an so fatigued lately I seem to run out of gas immediately. Hopefully my conditioning is not THAT bad, but who knows. Really good day on the bench though.

 

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

-Elbert Hubbard

Training 10/18-11/2

Can't find my training logs for the rest of the month... great. I know I got a bench max finally at Brett's gym and I hit 340. He said it wasn't as fast as I thought it was, but it felt good. Hit all my squat numbers for the cycle. Finished out really crappy this month, got to get it together as we are only a few weeks out from a meet. 

Dead Lift @ VSU
Foam Roll
Hip Flexor Stretch (between warm up sets)

135 x5
185 x5
225 x5
275 x5
Switched to conventional
345 x5
390 x3
435 x1
465 xDNF
Got it about a third of the way up and lost it. Felt like my traps were shrugged and the bar was a mile in front of me. Really horrible position.

A1 Band Pull Throughs
Blue Band 2x8

A2 Land Mine Barbell Row
100lbs x8
125 lbs x8

A3 Back Extensions
BW 2x8

 Ran our of gas after I dead lifted. Made a huge tactical error in how much and when I ate as I was horribly hungry during the warm up. I have no food and tried to gut it out... stupid. I am now officially on a deload week. It really has not been a great week or two and I have got to get it together. 

"From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains."

-Francois Rabelais

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