Upperbody and Lower body workouts.

The week has been kind of rough as I jumped into training too soon and have felt like hell all week.

Upperbody Thursday 3-29-12
Bench Press
warmup
225 x 5
235 x 4
245 x 3
210 x 8
210 x 10 I suck at reps

Elevated pushups
3 x 10

That was it I was exhausted and tired.

Lower Body 3-30-12

Box squats
135 x 5
225 x 5
265 x 5
305 x 5 x 3 sets

Power Snatches
5 sets x 2 reps

Power Cleans
5 sets x 2 reps

2 Dumbbells Deadlift
210lbs x 1
310lbs x 1
390lbs x 1
450lbs x 1 PR

Abs
3 x 20

Jesse

Easy lower body workout

Was still very stiff and sore today. Did a bunch of odd lifts, just wanted to have some fun.




Power cleans

3 x 3



Anderson squats(these suck)

275 x 3

365 x 1

455 x 1

505 x 1

I can tell I am not gonna like these at all.



One arm Hack lift

135 x 1

185 x 1

225 x 1

245 x 1 I think can't remember



DBL overhand axle DL

220 x 1

250 x 1

270 x 1

300 x 1



Hack Lift

245 x 1

315 x 1

365 x 1

405 x 1 PR and goal for the year



Jefferson lift

405 x 1



Abs

3 x 15



Looking forward to ramping things up and getting ready for some big contest this year.



Jesse

Old Time Strongman Competition

I competed down ETs house of Iron and Stone in the USAWA Old Time Strongman Competition.

1st Event Axle Clean and Press
1st attempt 220lbs good
2nd attempt 250lbs good
3rd passed. I was happy to get 250, most I have done in a while.

2nd Event Goerner Stroll
1st attempt 410lbs good
2nd attempt 470lbs good
3rd attempt 510lbs fail, got it picked up but couldn't balance it.

3rd Event Crucifix hold
1st 50lbs
2nd 70lbs fail
3rd 70lbs good
Brutal event, very humbling

4th Event 18" Deadlift
1st attempt 585lbs good
2nd attempt 625lbs fail
3rd attempt 625lbs fail
I was out of gas at this point. Dissapointing not to get this, but I had nothing left.

I ended up winning the middleweights, but took 2nd in the overall. I was halfway close to winning, just needed to get those lfts I missed.

Jesse

Upperbody

Decided to take it easier today. We are gonna do the Postal Meet events on sunday and I figured I am not gonna get any stronger this close to ETs meet so just messed around.




1 arm clean and jerk

45 x 1 L & r

65 x 1 L & R

75 x 1 L & R

85 x 1 L & R

95 x 1 R

105 x 1 R

115 x 1 R



Axle clean and press

160 x 3

200 x 1

220 x 1 opener



Warmed up with some 1 arm bench

Hands together bench

135 x 3

185 x 1

205 x 1

225 x 1 PR



Feet in the air bench

225 x 1

250 x 1



Prowler

10 sets of 90 feet



Feeling better.



Jesse

Sunday and Tuesday shitty ass workouts

Sunday I attempted to do what most people call train, but in reality all I did was lift like a dumbass. So I will leave it at that.

Tuesday Supposed deadlift day.

Power Snatches and Hang snatches
Who knows

Deadlifts
225 x 3
315 x 3
405 x 2
495 x 1
550 x miss about a million times. I don't what the hell happended here, I just couldn't get it to go. I am starting to wonder how I feel about pulling with a deadlift bar. I gotta learn how to pull the slack out of the bar.

Front squat
135 x 3
185 x 1
205 x 1
225 x 1
235 x 1
I used the clean grip on these, gotta get used to it. I like how it feels but it hurt so much on my wrist.

DB rows
2 x 15

Prowler sprints
10 sets of 90 feet

Abs
3 x 20

So I wanted to have something go good for the damn night, so I picked on of my goals for the year.

2 handed pinch grip
175 x 1 at least something went good, son of a bitch !!!! 180 is the new goal.

Jesse

Deload lower body

Kind of a deload workout. I was quite happy with how it went.




Hang snatches

95 x 3 singles

115 x 3 singles

125 x 3 singles



I attempted some miller clean and jerks with 95lbs but they just turned into cleans, SOB that hurts like hell!!!



Then I tried some 1 arm clean and jerks, my elbow hurts way too bad and I suck at jerking.



Continental to the belt

225 x 1

315 x 1

385 x 1

410 x 1 PR

420 x 1 PR

435 x miss miss so close



Prowler Pushes

90lbs x downhill and uphill

180lbs x downhill and uphill

270lbs x downhill and uphill

360lbs x downhill and uphill, if I would have timed the uphill set I think it might have required a calendar, I just kept pushing and almost fell over at the end.



Standing abs

3 x 20



Good day.



Jesse

Quick Upperbody workout

Ok training today. I was feeling quite tired and Gabby wanted to do her lifts for the Eastern Postal meet. She ended up with 50# on the Feet in the air bench, 55# front squat, and 65# Continental to the belt.




After I helped her.

I got a Pendlay Nexgen bar today, excellent bar and perfect for what I want.



Strict press

I started out with a wider grip, didn't care for it.



135 x 3

155 x 1

175 x 1

back to closer grip

185 x 1

190 x 1

200 x 1

Eh not great my upperback was so sore.



1 arm bench

65 x 3 each arm

85 x 3 each arm

105 x 1 each arm 5# PR left

120 x 1 right arm 5# PR



Close grip bench

285 x 1 x 5 sets



Did some Bent over row

235 x 3

255 x 3

275 x 1

295 x 1 x 2 sets I did a pause on the last rep on each set, on the 295 I paused both, but on the 1st one I think I was to upright. This is a 10# PR

325 x 1 no pause. I think I can get this fresh. I want my record back.



That was it. I think I will take it easy tomorrow and just do conditioning and some light oly stuff.



Jesse

Lower body workout

Ok day today, didn't really think it would go as well as it had.

Hang snatch x a bunch, getting better at these but I was using light weights.

DBL overhand axle deads
200 x 3
250 x 2
280 x 1
300 x 1
320 x miss

Deadlifts
335 x 2
425 x 2
475 x 1
535 x 1 happy about this, next week is 550 it should go well.

Speed pulls, actually they were slow as hell
385 x 3 x 2 sets

Front squats
135 x 3
185 x 1
225 x 1
Tried knee wraps, but I am still a big pussy on front squats. I missed 275.

18" deadlifts
425 x 1
515 x 1
605 x 1
655 x 1 I think this is a raw PR
705 x miss, almost got it to break from the boxes I would have got it had that happended.

Some core work then I went and stuffed myself with wings.

Jesse

Lower body

Box squats


300 x 2 x 5 sets



Steinborn lift

got a PR of 235lbs, I gotta work on better technique to get this bastard on my shoulders, They should call this the manmaker.



Sumo pulls, not sure why I did these just had the urge.

245 x 3

335 x 1

405 x 1

455 x 1

505 x 1 that was enough.



Abs

3 x 15



Jesse

Upperbody night

Strict Press
135 x 5
150 x 3
170 x 5

Push Press
205 x 1 x 5 sets
230 x 1 PR for a true push press

Bench Press
275 x 1 x 5 sets
Feet in the air bench
245 x 3 x 2 sets

Tate Presses
4 x 8

Pullups
3 sets x 5 reps

Conditioning
rower and jump rope 24 rounds 20 sec on 10 sec off.

Good night.

Jesse