Family training and conditioning, and thoughts about my weight loss.

So I had started the 1st phase of the carb nite solution, it went pretty well I and enjoyed eating carbs saturday night. But my wife has decided to start it also so I am gonna redo my 1st phase so that we can both have our carb nite together. I lost 5lbs last week so a good start and I think we are on the right track. I have been really hammering my conditioning work, and I think I feel the best I have in a long time.

Alison and Gabby's workout.
Bench Press
Alison
worked up to a topset of 60lbs x 10 reps PR
Gabby
Worked up to a top set of 47.5lbs x 9 reps PR

Then Alison got a nice PR on the the Military press doing 45lbs x 5 reps x 3 sets

My conditioning
10 sets of:
Prowler 60' low handles, 60' high handles, 50 jump ropes, 10 sledgehammer swings each arm
I won't lie this was brutal.

Jesse

Sunday overhead pressing and strongman day

The weather turned out to be great today and it was the start of a new journey for me.

Strict press
110 x 5
160 x 1
180 x 1
200 x 1
210 x 1

Downset
180 x 3

Double overhand axle dead
220 x 3
250 x 3
285 x 3 PR

Frame Carry
480 x 50 feet x 2 sets this didn't feel that great, but it was nice to do some stuff outside

Stones
230 x 15 loads

Prowler
16 sets of 80 feet

Overeall it was a great day, very happy with how things felt.

Jesse

Very quick workout

Gabby had a Halloween function at school, in the past I have tried my hardest to get out of these but since I have gotten wiser and know things for my family are more important than my lifting I opted to go and let my daughter have fun.

Got home a little after 7, and was just gonna skip my workout. But I figured I could go out and do whatever I felt like doing in 10-15 min.

Box squats supersetted with Power Cleans
225 x 2 and 205 x 1 for 8 sets

That was it, done in like 8 min.

Jesse

Upperbody workout

Today I started my new plan, it is only 1 day and it is really not much different but I think it will work.

4 board press with a close grip
135 x 5 x 2
185 x 5
225 x 3 added boards
275 x 3
295 x 1
315 x 1
335 x 1
355 x 1
300 x 6

Speed Overhead press with Choked Minis
5 sets of 3 reps

Swiss Bar Floor Presses
3 x 5

Dips
5 x 5 last set was with 70lbs

Fat bar pressdowns
5 x 10

Overall I was happy with tonight. Gotta figure out how I am gonna setup the rest of my workouts, but I think I have a good plan.

Jesse

Getting my motivation back.

Right now I have no meets on the horizon and I am nursing some injuries. So no better time than right now than to get my ass in gear and get my weight back down to where it should be. Since NAHA Nationals I have dropped 15lbs and I really am not sure as to where I will go down to. Ideally getting back down to 200lbs would be nice, I am pretty sure I can make that happen but I am not gonna push the issue and burn myself out.

I am gonna try a new method, it is called carb back loading. So far I like it, I feel a little tired during the day, but my workouts have been going good. And with getting to have a ultra high carb day once a week it at least makes you feel like you have something to work towards(besides losing weight.) I have also been doing a lot of prowler pushes and jump roping, eventually I will starting adding in some walking for 30-60 minutes at a time.

I really don't know if I will ever get to compete again, if I get to great, if not I can at least work on being healthier and trying to set some strength goals at a lighter bodyweight.

Here goes nothing.

Jesse

Deadlift and testing my knee out.

So my knee has been feeling a lot better. So I did what any person would do tested it out. I didn't do much but I could tell it was still too soon. I am pretty sure I will be ok, just gotta give it more time.

Power Snatch
just used as a warmup

Front squats
3 x 3 only used 155. These felt fine but on the 3rd set I felt a decent amount of pain, which is to be expected since I haven't done full range squats in a while.

Deads
225 x 3
315 x 3
425 x 3
475 x 6 had more in me, but I kept shifting to my right side and this would causing my lat to cramp. Better than I thought it would go. And I tore up my thumb really nice from hooking.

Bent Over rows
3 x 8

DB rows
3 x 10

Green band abs
3 x 20
KB twist
3 x 10

Prowler
10 sets of 80 feet
5 low handle, 5 high handle.

8# Sledge Swings
1 set of 30 swings each arm.

So I am working on losing weight, so far so good. I have dropped a few lbs and have a goal I want to be at in 3 weeks. I think I have found the right plan of attack for me right now.

Jesse

Strongman day, finally feeling like one again.

I gotta say today was a really good day. Not anything crazy fantastic today, but stuff is coming back around.

Strict Presses
140 x 5
160 x 5
180 x 7 getting better
Push Presses
200 x 3
220 x 3
240 x 1 knee was really throbbing here so I stopped.

DBL overhand Axle DL
200 x 3
240 x 3
270 x 3 no more, tried 4 but it slipped out above my knees.

18" Deadlift
245 x 3
335 x 3
425 x 1
475 x 1
525 x 1
600 x 1
Wow been a while on this one.

Stones
250 x 2
330 x 1
360 x 1 This made happy as hell, but it was hard. I still can't squat down to get the stones in my lap, so I have to pull them very high to get them in my lap. This was my goal today, so I can't complain.

Prowler pushes with 200lbs
4 sets of 120' low handles down to 60' high handles 60', this sucked nuts, I really wanted to die or pass out whichever happened first.

Some Biceps and Triceps

Overall it was a great day. Bryan is almost healed up and kicked ass, Corey is getting his mojo back, Josh got a overhead PR, and Troy killed the axle press, 18" DL, and stones.

Jesse