Deads and upperback

My bar I had to have replaced arrived today, it was nice to have back.

Warmed up with some cleans on it.

Cleans
135 x 5 x 2
185 x 3
205 x 3
My clean form sucks. No biggie gotta work on it.

Deads
245 x 3
295 x 3
335 x 2
385 x 1
425 x 1
500 x 2 this felt good, it was nice to pull 500 again.

Skipped speed pulls today.

18" deads
600 x 1 x 2 sets
These felt good.

Chest supported rows
4 x 15

Bent Over rows
4 x 10

Front squats
3 sets

Ab work
3 sets

Damn good night.

Jesse

Sunday Training

Today started out like crap, I was very tired and very sore. Deloaded on some things then finally got some energy with the nice weather to do some strongman stuff.

Axle clean and press
just worked up to 205 for 2 sets of 3. I haven't really deloaded my press in about 5-6 weeks so this was needed.

Tried to do some continentals to the belt but I was burned out.

Rectangular Fix
75lbs x 3 sets of 5 reps.

Worked on some holdouts from the bottom and top. This lift is hard, very hard and humbling.

Then Corey and I were dicking around doing a 2 man Ciavattone grip on the axle. We worked up to 520lbs and missed 550lbs it was close. I think had we taken a little more rest we would have got it. I was pleased with this.

So Bryan wanted to do Super Yoke, so I figured why not. But wow when you haven't done the yoke in a while it hurts.
450lbs x 50 feet
540lbs x 50 feet
630lbs x 50 feet
Wow I almost forget how to do yoke, but nothing got hurt so that was good. My neck is killing me though. But it was nice to do again.

Keg loads over 48" bar, we had it initially set at 54" but that was too high for everyone to be able to use.
I think we did about 15-16 loads with the 250lbs keg.

Prowler with 90lbs x 90 feet then 25# sledgehammer x 5 each arm x 5 sets

Overall it turned out to be an ok day. Time for a nap.

Jesse

Squats

It feels good to be squatting again on Friday nights. I am doing a lot less assistance on this day and I think for me it is perfect. Tonight was a great workout.

Back squats
warmup
350 x 1 x 10 sets beltless

Hack lift
135 x 5
225 x 5
315 x 5
Holy crap this destroyed my quads, gonna start doing these as I really think they will help me get more leg drive on my deadlift.

Spud Long Ab strap
5 x 20

That was it, great night. Very quick and efficient.

Jesse

Upperbody

I was still sore as hell from tuesdays workout, but it was time to workout.

Close grip bench
205 x 3
230 x 3
260 x 6, this sucked very hard.

Reverse band bench greens
200 x 10
220 x 10
240 x 10
260 x 10
280 x 10

Tricep Pressdowns
5 x 15

Then we dicked around and tried the one-arm barbell clean and press.
I did 95lbs for a few singles. With my right arm, none on the left.

Curls
4 x 10

Dicked around with a bunch of other stuff. Overall not a bad night.

Jesse

Deadlift day

Awesome day today, gotta love these days when you have them.

Axle Power Cleans
200 x 1 x 10 sets

Deadlifts
225 x 3
315 x 2
365 x 1
405 x 1
475 x 2
Speed Pulls
385 x 3 x 3

18" deadlifts
575 x 1 x 3 sets

Goodmornings with Cambered bar
165 x 5 x 2 sets
215 x 5 x 1 set

DB rows
155 x 8 x 3 sets each arm

25# sledgehammer swings
3 sets of 10 each arm.

Great night, but I think I am gonna hate life tommorrow. But it is worth every bit of pain.

Jesse

Sunday training

I felt very tired and beat up today. But I did what I could and decided to practice some of the lifts I want to attempt for next months USAWA records day at the Dino Gym.

Axle clean and press
110 x 5
160 x 3
200 x 1
215 x 2
215 x 4. Corey told me some stuff I was doing wrong on the first set. This helped but I felt like hell here.

Axle DBL overhand deadlift
260 x 3
290 x 1

Rectangular fix
55 x 1
65 x 1
75 x 1
85 x 1
95 x 1
I think I was doing these correctly, not sure.

Continental to belt
275 x 1
315 x 1
365 x 1
390 x 1 PR
390 x 1 I thought this was 410 but I was a dumbass and loaded the bar wrong.

Fulton bar deadlift
435 x 1

Pinch grip 1 handed
50 x 1 both hands
55 x 1 "            "
60 x 1 "            "
65 x 1 left hand, almost right hand

Core work

Over all I am happy. I think am gonna be really sore tommorrow.

Jesse

Lower body and a nice PR

The new deadlift bar arrived and I knew I was gonna do some pulls with it, but first I had a goal I wanted so I went after that first.

Back squat
135 x 5
225 x 3
275 x 1
315 x 1
365 x 1
410 x 1 PR

Deadlifts with Texas Deadlift bar
315 x 3
405 x 1
455 x 1
Stopped here, my back was toast from the squats.

DB snatches
70 x 3 x 3 each arm

Weighted abs
4 x 20

Jesse
Awesome night in the gym. I squatted a PR, Bryan squatted 545lbs for a PR and deadlifted 625lbs for a PR.

Upperbody night

Close grip bench
185 x 5
215 x 5
245 x 9

Dips
35#s x 5 x 3 sets

Tricep Pushdowns
4 x 10 and 1 x 15

Pullups
4 sets x 5 reps

Lat pulldowns
4 x 10 and 1 x 15

Cheat Curls
3 x 5

Cleaned up the gym, gotta a little more to do but it is looking really nice.

Jesse

Tuesday training

Power Cleans with Axle to warmup.
110 x 3
160 x 3
200 x 1
220 x 1 PR but damn do I have the worst form on cleans.

Deadlifts
225 x 3
315 x 3
405 x 1
440 x 2
365 x 3 x 4 sets

18" deadlifts
550 x 1 x 3 sets

Bent Over Rows
225 x 5 x 3 sets

Whole bunch of grip work
140lb 2 hand pinch grip
2" Vbar  and then some other stuff.

That was it, very tired, but very good workout.

Jesse

Sunday training

I felt like hell today, kind of exhausted. Still a good day, my overhead was dissapointing though.

Axle clean and press
165 x 3
185 x 3
205 x 5 just had no leg drive

Strict press
150 x 5 x 3 sets

Max bent over row with pause at stomach
Worked up to 275lbs

1" Vbar
got 185lbs missed 200.

DB snatch
got 110lbs

DB clean and press
got 120lbs

Stones
worked up to the 330 for a single.

Core work.

Overall not a bad day, just gotta get used to certain things again.

Jesse

Nice squat session

Decided to  go back to training 4 days a week, so squats on Friday are in order.

Bryan made it over and neither one of really felt like doing shit. But eventually we both got motivation and had great workouts.

Warmed up with cleans
135 x 3 x 2
185 x 3
205 x 3
these were just bad, I have forgot how to do power cleans with decent form.

Back squats
225 x 3
275 x 2
295 x 1
315 x 1
335 x 1
355 x 1
375 x 1
All beltless, most I have done in a while. I think next week I will put my belt on, maybe go for a PR.

Standing abs
3 x 20

Bryan ended up squatting 505, the most he has done in while also. Some days when you don't think you have it, you do.

Jesse

Upperbody but not much of one.

Was quite pumped up for today's lifting. But I also had a million different things I was doing. My wife and daughter needed to train. So I was training them, cleaning up the gym to finish building my platform. And also building my platform.

Close grip bench
210 x 5
235 x 3
265 x 6 So when I did I was disappointed but then after thinking about it this isn't too bad. Last cycle I did 257 x 7 so 8lbs more and 1 less rep. But I am also down another 5lbs in body weight. Back in October when I was about 25lbs heavier I did 270 x 8 so not too far off where I was at a heavier body weight.

Flat DB bench
80 x 10
95 x 8 x 2 sets
80 x 10

That was all I did. Alison and Gabby had a great workout. Time to go back to training 4 days a week again.

Jesse

Good deadlifting, no squatting.

Was feeling really good going into todays workout, but once I got going my adductors were killing me. Made it through deadlifting but squatting hurt way too bad.

Deadlifts
135 x 5
225 x 5
275 x 3
325 x 2
415 x 2
Speed pulls
325 x 3 x 4 sets

18" Deads
525 x 1 x 5 sets

Squats
135 x ouch that hurt a couple sets of 5 and I still couldn't get loosened up.

DB rows
135 x 10 x 2 sets
155 x 10

50# medicince ball slams
2 x 10

Nothing special but better than nothing.

Jesse

Sunday training

Another fun Sunday, bodyweight is down to 221.8 so I am holding steady and not really trying very hard so to speak.

Axle clean and press
160 x 5
180 x 5
195 x 8 so easy but I just playing run out of gas at 8 reps. Oh well it is progress.

So then we had the weekly Gym Challenge
1st event Strict Press from rack
175 good
190 good
205 fail
Imagine that don't train your strict press it goes to hell.

2nd event Snatch with axle
140 good
fail next 2 attempts, I suck at snatching and gotta learn how to drop under it.

3rd event Dumbell deadlift
305 good
335 good
355 fail
This was way harder than I thought it would be

Troy won the challenge, Bryan took 2nd, and I took 3rd. Fun day

Assistance
Strict Press
135 x 5 x 5

Pulls to the face
3 x 15

Band Pullaparts
3 x 15

Prowler push 200lbs/Keg carry 200lbs 60' each x 3
Prowler push 200lbs/keg carry 250lbs 60' done

Fun day and things are going good.

Jesse

Upperbody workout

Damn fine upperbody workout today. I needed this after the debacle on tuesday.

Close grip bench
195 x 3
225 x 3
251 x 8
My weight has been holding steady at around 223-225 so my strength is finally starting to come back.

Incline DB press
60 x 10
70 x 10
80 x 8
100 x 3
80 x 8
Too big of a jump on the 100s. Next time

Green Band Extensions
5 x 15

Hammer curls supersetted with DB curls
3 x 10

1" Vbar
135 x 1
160 x 1
185 x 1
200 x 1 left missed right arm.

Prowler suicide
60',50',40',30' low handle down high handle back up. 1 set and I about died, this sucked.

Jesse

Dissapointing Tuesday workout

Turns out when you have a mock competition 2 days before it kind of kicks your ass, well it did at least for me.

Deads from the floor
135 x 5
225 x 3
315 x 3
365 x 3
425 x 3
475 x not gonna happen. I guess I need to deload, or take a break or just give up deadlifting

18" deads
worked up to 565, stopped here.

Back Squats
300 x 1 x 8

Thick bar shrugs supersetted with DB rows
200lbs x 10 and 115lbs x 10 x 3 sets

Sledgehammer swings supersetted with leg raises
10 and 10 x 3 sets

Time to rest up.

Jesse

New years day workout

I figured since it was a new year, why not change things up and have a challenge in the gym. Started out with some pressing and then the challenge started.

Axle Clean and press
110 x 5
160 x 3
200 x 1
220 x 1
240 x 1 progress still gotta figure my technique out.

I have been doing some reading about the USAWA, it is a smaller federation of basically some classic lifts, some different lifts, and some really different lifts. But I find most of them very challenging. So I picked 4 and we had a impromputu competition in the gym.

DBL overhand Axle Deadlift
1st 270 good
2nd 300 good
3rd 320 no good, I have been chasing this weight for a while it is haunting me.

Cheat Curl
1st 185 good
2nd 205 no good
3rd 205 no good
I suck at curls, and after rereading the rules I think we were a little lax on the rules.

Reeves Deadlift
1st 235 good
2nd 250 good
3rd 275 stapled
This lift is hard, very hard. I have never tore a callus on anything but highlands games stuff, this killed my calluses.

Continental to belt
1st 300 good
2nd 315 good
3rd 350 good
extra attempts
365 good
405 so close, I would have  had this on my first attempt but I hit my lever on my belt and it unbuckled. Tried it again and almost had it.

I had a blast with this and I think the guys did to. Once I get everything worked out I am gonna starting hosting USAWA comps in the garage.

What a great way to bring in the new year.

Jesse