Training Log: Entry 2720

EARLY AM WORKOUT

GIANT SETS (chin-press-abs)

NG weighted chin

5x50

5x95

5x105

5x110

5x115

4x120

Trap bar strict press

5xBar

5x98

5x135

5x185

5x205

5x210

Standing ab wheel

6x10

GIANT SETS (row-weighted dip/DB press odd sets BtN press/dip even sets-lateral raise)

Head supported keg row 150lbs

6x12

Weighted dips 90/DB press 50s

1x12/failure

1x10/failure

1x9/failure

Behind the neck barbell press 105/dip

3x10/Failure

DB lateral raise 15

6x11

Band pull apart

1x50

Notes: 90 seconds rest between sets.  Worked the night shift, ate my pre-workout meal on the drive home, got home, dropped my kid off at summer day camp and came around and hit this workout.  Went much better than I expected.  I was nodding off at work at the end, but around the 3rd set of the day I had woken all the way back up and was ready to perform.  Hit just the right weight with that 5lb increase on the trap bar.  On the very last rep of the final set of BtN presses, I tweaked my left trap.  Nothing serious: just a stiff neck, but let's me know I need to make sure I'm keeping form the whole way through.

I've grown to really appreciate the BtN press as a shoulder builder, because it's doesn't allow me to use anything else to complete the press.  I'm using very little weight compared to my traditional strict press, I'm barely finishing the set, and then when I go to the dips I can still knock out a bunch of them, which shows me that my chest and triceps aren't terribly fatigued from the pressing, but since I can't do any more reps on the press itself my shoulders are absolutely torqued.

Was incredibly vascular after the workout was over.  Part of that I'm sure is just nutrition and hydration being all over the place with the weird schedule.