SQUAT

Day 1 week 2

SQUAT
45x5, 135/225x2, 315/365/405/455x1, (added knee wraps) 515x1
*515 felt like hell.

It's been a LONG week. It has actually felt like 2 or 3 weeks. My wife was induced Sunday night and our son was born Monday morning at 7:15. He's happy and healthy and quite a handful. My wife sleeps 10pm-4am and I sleep 4am-10am or so. I'm working at home right now, which is a very helpful advantage for us. I managed to get in to the gym tonight but the lack of sleep and food this week really took it out of me. I'm hoping once we get in a rhythm I will be able to be better recovered and maybe get some quality work in at the gym.

I've canceled my plans for the July 2 meet. I will still test at least my squat and bench press because I have some numbers I've been wanting to hit. I'm not exactly "competitive" at this point in my career anyway, so putting off one meet is not such a bad thing while my numbers are less than stellar. The plan is still to take openers on the squat and bench press next week and do some extra work then take a deload the next week and test on the weekend. Our crew is having some scheduling issues, so we're hopefully gonna get that worked out soon.

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

BENCH PRESS (PR)

Day 3 week 3

BENCH PRESS
45x5, 135/185x3, 225/275/315x1, (added comp wraps) 365x1, (added 1 board) 395/415x1
*415 is a PR on the 1 board. with pause

ROWS
4 sets of 12

Another PR is a good thing. Tomorrow I'll be squatting up to my opener with wraps and then going down to 405 or so for some doubles.

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

SQUAT

Day 2 week 3

SQUAT
45x8, 135/185/225x2, 315/365/405/455x1, (added knee wraps) 515x1, (knee wraps off, add reverse choked light bands) 565x1

My hamstrings were still sore when I went in and I've been feeling like crap lately. I think I have a bit of a "summer cold" or something. Hopefully I can still be 100% come meet time.

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

BENCH PRESS (PR)

Day 1 week 3

BENCH PRESS
45/135x5, 185x3, 225/275/315x1, (added comp wraps and pause) 355x1, (added 1 board) 385/405x1
*405 is a 20 lbs PR on 1-board

SPEEDY BENCH PRESS
2 sets of 3 @ 275

Yeah, I basically just separated it into two groups to make it look like I did assistance. I was wiped after the 405.

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

DEAD LIFT

day 4 week 4

DEAD LIFT
135/135/135/185/185/185/235/235/235/285/285/285/285/335/335/335x1
*All sets done with light band draped over the bar

RDL
3 sets of 10 @ 135

45* HYPER
3 sets of 15 second holds

I hate dead lifting.

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BENCH ACCY

Day 3 week 4

BENCH PRESS
45/135x5, 185/225/275/275/275x3

FACE PULLS
4 sets of 12

LAT ROWS
3 sets of 10

Dynamic dead lifts tomorrow.

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

SQUAT

Day 2 week 4

WARM UP

SQUAT
45/135x5, 225/315x1, (added belt and wrist wraps) 365/405/455x1, (added comp wraps) 515x1, (rev mini bands, sans knee wraps) 545x2
*bands took of WAY too much weight, we had them looped over the rack took off about 110 at the bottom.

MACHINE LEG PRESS
3 sets of 12
*hurt my knees

Tried out the Slingshot wraps tonight. They seemed to work well. They're definitely as tight as the 3-lines are, but obviously don't have nearly as much coverage. I think they're going to be good for me though for now because 515 wasn't a problem.
I realized I only have 5 total weeks left until the meet, so I had to change the week number.

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BENCH PRESS

Day 1 week 5

BENCH PRESS
45/135x5, 185/225/275/315x1, (add comp wraps) 355x1, (add 1 board) 365/385x1

ROWS
4 sets of 10

Opener went fast and easy without the elbow sleeves.

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano