Overhead Pressing and Deadlifts

Felt like shit all day today, had an upset stomach and just felt shitty overall, but I was ready to train hell or high water.

Strict Presses
110 x 5
140 x 3
170 x 1
200 x 1
220 x 1 This felt good, didn't have much left for more though.

Sumo Deads
225 x 5
315 x 3
365 x 1
405 x 1
455 x 1
495 x 1
535 x 1 nice and solid
555 x miss lats starting cramping aborted.

forward sled drags
400lbs x 6 x 80 feet

Abs
3 x 10

Overall great day, feeling good and hoping things will peak right in 4 weeks.

Jesse

Strongman day

Overall today was a great day of training. I trainined everything at around 90% today, enough to let me know where I am at, but not enough to burn me out.

Axle Clean and press for reps
220 x 5
These felt good, but my legs were wobbly, way off my best. No biggie.

Arm over arm truck pull with GMC Jimmy up a slight grade
1 set x 60 feet, felt good, nice and consistent pulls.

12" starting height DL
455 lbs x 6 reps, up and down command. I hook gripped these and it fucking hurt. I think I could have done 2 more but my thumbs were killing me.

230-250 stone over 48" bar
10 reps, did 7 in under a minute kept going to get 10.


Prowler push
5 trips of 80 feet.

Great day of training. I know now where I am at strength wise and what to work on. Feeling excited again.

Jesse

Benching, squatting, and upperbody work.

Feeling very motivated, found a contest to train for and I forgot that feeling of motivation to have something to train for. Plus I got my time off approved, so it is go time.

Close grip bench
205 x 5
235 x 5
270 x 5 x 3 sets.

Dips
3 x 15

12" base squats using axle
200 x 3 x 2 sets
220 x 3
240 x 3
260 x 3
stopped here, my hammie is a little pulled so I gotta take it slow.

Vbar pulldowns
10,10,15

50# medicine ball slams
3 x 10

Jesse

Sunday training

I woke up on this day feeling like hell, very tired, and very unmotivated. While I didn't do anything great, it turned out to be a halfway decent day.

Did some Circus DB to start
It sucked massively, don't wanna talk about it.

Axle clean and press, usually I do this on tuesday, but I figured why not.
160 x 3
190 x 3
215 x 1
240 x 3 Not a PR, but most I have pressed in a long time.

Farmers Walk/Sled Drag medley
210 farmers/400lb backwards sled drag.
2 sets of the medley
1 set of 210 farmers to get them back up to the gym.

1" Vbar
worked up to 219lbs each hand.

Stone shouldering
210lbs stone x 5

Core work
4 sets

Feeling a little down, no real reason just am. I am starting to wonder if I will ever get as strong as I was, or stronger. Some days I don't really care if I do, and then other days I really want it. I think a lot of it is I just miss competing, if I could get a competition under my belt and do halfway decent, I would probably be out of my funk.

Jesse

Past couple of workouts

Missed posting the past couple of workouts. Some good some bad.

Thursday 9-6-12

Close grip bench
warmups
240 x 5
270 x 3
300 x 3
Plan was 295, but I haven't done 300 in a long time. This was good to get again.

Lat pulldowns
5 x 8

DB rows
165 x 10 x 2 sets

Sledge Swings
3 x 15 each arm

Prowler Pushes

9-9-12 Events Day
Cyr Press
worked up to 132lbs x 1 which I believe is a PR, I hate this lift.

Backwards sled drags
5 sets of 80 feet

Ciavottone grip axle dead
270 x 1
300 x a couple

Did a few other things, but not much worth mentioning.

Tuesday 9-11-12 craptastic workout
Axle press out of rack
160 x 3
180 x 1
200 x 1
220 x 1
240 x 1
260 x 1 after a couple misses, and I blacked out, fucking awesome.

Deads
135 x 5
185 x 1
225 x 1
275 x 1
315 x 1
365 x 1
405 x 1
455 x 1
495 x 1 easy as hell but knee was really aching
535 x couldn't finish it, no stability in my knee.

at this point I called it a day, I was fuming mad from not having a decent workout and was getting madder by each missed lift.

Jesse

Little bit of overhead, crappy front squats, and some deads.

Decided to deload my axle press and just strict press.

Strict Presses
45 x 10
95 x 2
135 x 2
175 x 2
195 x 2
217 x 2 Pretty sure this is a PR

Front Squats
45 x 5
95 x 2
125 x 2
155 x 2
185 x 2
215 x 2
250 x 1 bicep cramped up really bad on the 2nd rep, it stayed this way the whole workout.

Deads
335 x 2
385 x 2
425 x 2
475 x 2
515 x 1

Prowler Pushes
6 sets adding weight each set

That was it.

Strongman day, celebrating Troy's 26th Bday.

We trained later in the day today, I had my brother in town and I wanted to spend as much time as possible with him.  It was a great day of training.

Cyr Press
bunch of warmups
122lbs x 4 reps clean and press each rep PR, came so close to 5 reps.

Anderson Squat
135 x 3
225 x 3
315 x 3
405 x 1
455 x 1
495 x 1
550 x 1 PR I believe
600 x stapled

Atlas Stones
210lb stone x 26 reps
Damn near puked, I have no clue how long this took.

Great night of training, fun night with the guys.

Jesse