DEAD LIFT

week 5 day 4

hips

DEAD LIFT
135/225/315/365/405 x 1, (added rev strong band) 485x1

Quit there. If I'm going to dead lift twice a week I will have to put the form day after the heavy day. Everything just felt heavy and crappy. I also forgot about packing my neck, so that may have held me back a bit. My knee was bugging me, but I'm pretty sure it's my VMO that is causing it, so I'll just keep up the soft tissue work and it should be okay. My forearm seems to be about 80% right now. I'm glad I skipped bench press yesterday because it gave my arm a chance to heal. Assuming it feels at least this good on Monday I plan to work up on the one board.

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DEAD LIFT

week 5 day 3

hips

DEAD LIFT
135/225/315/365/365/365/365/365/415/415/415/415/415 x 1
*1 minute rest

Felt pretty strong. Kept my neck packed and made sure to flex my lats.
Irritated the medial side of both my knees. I think this is from having my feet turned too far out, but I don't know. I'm also not sure if dead lifting 36 hours after a heavy squat session was a good idea, but I thought it was fun.

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SQUAT

week 5 day 2

shoulders
hips

SQUAT
45x5, 135/225/315/365/405/465/495x1, (added reverse light bands) 545x1

POWERSQUAT GOODMORNING
4 plates for 10
6 plates for 10
8 plates for 10
8 plates for 10

It was nice to get some assistance work in on a squat day. I'm not sure how we had time for this, but we did.

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BENCH PRESS

week 5 day 1

shoulders
hips

BENCH PRESS
45x8, 95/135/185/225/245/275/315/335/365x1
*went toward my toes but was able to recover it. elbow still hurts. board work next week

MACHINE ROW
45 total reps

FACE PULLS
5 sets of 10

meh again

Had to go down to the university gym today. Strange surroundings... probably more "broskies" at the university gym than the place I'm at now... and that is shocking.

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HOME WORKOUT

week 6 day 5

BAND GOOD MORNING
5 sets of 10
*average band

BAND PULL APART
2 sets of 10
*mini band
*supine grip

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DEAD LIFT

week 6 day 4

hips

DEAD LIFT
135/225/225/315/365/405/425x1 (added reverse strong bands) 475/515x1

meh

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LIGHT BENCH PRESS

week 6 day 3

shoulders
hips

BENCH PRESS
45/95/135/135x3
*mini bands

TRICEPS EXTENSIONS
4 sets of 12
*rehab weight

LAT PULLDOWN
2 sets of 10, 1 set of 6

My forearm has been bothering me. It's on the lateral side and only hurts when I flex and extend my elbow or grip something. I'll be alternating ice and heat lotion today on it.

The November meet is off for me. I'm going to take a break from competing because I just don't see the point. Scott Yard has said a few times that if it isn't fun, he's not going to do it. I agree. There's never any competition in my weight class around here and I just can't justify the hassle and expenditure. So now the idea is that here in about 6 weeks I'm going to take a deload and take some time on a Saturday and test my lifts. Either that or I'll just deload and then test my lifts the following week on the normal days we're in the gym. All that has ever mattered is PRs... no reason to pay someone for that.

Nothing will be changing in my routine really, I'm just cutting out a lot of the board work and rep work I was going to do in the next several weeks. Assuming my forearm is back to par next week I'll be moving into the 400s with the one board and moving deeper into the 500s with some reverse bands on the squat. Dead lift won't change much because I'm trying to establish new PRs with sumo. Current best is an ugly 475... so even a pretty 475 would be an improvement.

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CONDITIONING

Carried a bunch of my wife's old junky furniture out today. Took me about 45 minutes... I made a LOT of trips from the third floor down to the dumpster. COUNT IT

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