Training Log: Entry 2413

AM WORKOUT (0315 Wake-up by alarm clock: working early shift)

SUPERSETS (press-chin): 90 second rests between last 2 sets

Axle strict press

5xAxle

5x66

3x146

3x166

5+2+1x186 (rest pause)

11x186

Chin (underhand)

3x55

3x80

3x105

3x110

2x3x115

GIANT SETS (dip/DB press OR press/dip-raise-pull apart): 90 second rest between sets

Weighted dips 105/DB press 50s

1x12/failure

1x11/failure

1x9/failure

BtN press 120/dips

1x10/failure

1x9/failure

1x8/failure

DB lateral raise 15

2x14

4x13

Band pull aparts

2x14

4x13

Poundstone curls

129xAxle

Notes: Hips/glute are better, but not 100%.  Picking heavy stuff off the floor isn't the best idea right now, and training so early in the morning I didn't want to clang and bang and wake up my sleeping bride, so I ditched the log and kroc rows for now and put the Poundstone curls in early.  Might come back later today for a part II and get it in, but we'll see.  With my hips junked up, topset was Princess Bride "to the pain" style, rather than worrying about hitting PRs.  I pushed as hard as I could, which is where I'll see growth.  On that note, my supplemental work rocked, and I saw growth all around there.  My shoulders are really blowing up from this.  Loading pin on the dip belt is swinging a bit, which can be annoying, but also adds an element of challenge.

Breakfast before training was 2 hardboiled eggs.  Now that I'm no longer in a calorie deficit, I'm starting to lean away from large meals right before training.  It made sense before when I was running on such low calories and needed a boost, but now that I've got a steady stream of nutrients, it doesn't seem entirely necessary.  These were also organic cage free/free range eggs, as per John Meadows recommendation.  I used to say I couldn't stand cold hard boiled eggs, but I do wonder if it's because I was eating low quality eggs.  These weren't delicious, but definitely more palatable than what I've had before.  Plan is to make them the staple this week: trying to include healthier sources of saturated fat and dietary cholesterol.  I feel like it's helping, as everyday I'm feeling more and more like "me".  My forehead looks like a warzone with acne, and I have a voracious appetite, which is pretty much what I remember being.  

Cooked a grassfed new york strip steak yesterday and it turned out much better than the ribeye I made.  Seems the trick is to season them more than I'm used to.  

Also, date night cuisine was fantastic: had a buffalo chicken slider for an appetizer, which was the first "real" bread I've had in quite a while, and it was phenomenal.  Then had a bone in porkchop with a bacon/Gouda gravy, asparagus and mashed potatoes.  Mashed potatoes are the warm fluffy glue that holds the world together.  Spent the rest of the evening walking around downtown and found a bunch of novelty shops that sold a ton of nostalgia merchandise: ninja turtle action figures, X-men figures and cards, comic books, cabbage patch kids, pretty much my entire childhood.  Bought a pack of random Magic the Gather Cards for $3: still need to open them.  Just a great night.  Good for the soul.

PM WORKOUT with the kid

5 round circuit of

10 pull ups

4 standing ab wheel

10 KB swings

(Kid did 10 KB squats, 10 standing high jumps and 10 KB swings)

25 pushdowns

40 pull aparts

Kroc rows 115 w/rest pause

26+6+5 (kid did a straight set of 20)

GHR 30

Notes: Since I was getting this done while we were all awake, brought the kiddo into the garage with me.  They did well enough.  I'm less of a form police when it comes to lifting vs TKD: imagine that.  Didn't quite make my heart explode on the circuit or go totally balls to the wall on the kroc rows, as I didn't need my kid to see that, but still a solid workout.  Hip is ok.  Not 100%, but good enough.  Will do some unweighted walks with the dogs later today.