Training Log: Entry 2473

DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 1, Workout 5

AM WORKOUT (0310 Wake up via alarm)

Juarez Valley front squats 280lbs w/5 six count burpees between sets

7

1

6*

2

5*

3

4-Time: 17:02

6x225 Time: 20:04

Transition immediately to 15 rounds of EMOM daily work w/4 swing buy in w/40kg bell

Transition immediately to belt squat stripset w/no lockout or rest between sets

36x150

125

100

75

50

25

Axle

Notes: Wanted to do something I hadn’t done before so I’d have no baseline to chase. First time doing a sub 8 rep workout. It’s STILL a lung breaker. Amazing how it just always scales. Stakes were high on this one as the in-laws are still in town so I REALLY didn’t wanna dump the bar at 0300. Came close a few times too. Threw on that set of 225 at the end just to make it a 20 minute workout. 8 reps was in me for 280, but that woulda been in for the workout. Already I had some “eyes on the cheeks” reps, to quote Jasha Faye.

Think I’m gonna pull the trigger on the comp in Sep. Logistics seem to be working out. And then the wife wants to run a half marathon 2 weeks after that and asked if I wanted to join her…so I might so that too, because I’m great at making bad decisions. This might actually make DC the right call, since I’d have a bit more time to get in some running.

I ate well yesterday for the 4th: double bison burger and a piedmontese hot dog with some local sweet corn. Once again, I really have no desire for “cheat food” any more: I just want more and more protein. The corn was my “cheat”, and all it needed was a little salt to be totally magical. I’m also just happy with how much my relationship with food has improved, as I remember last 4th of Jul I was racking my brain over what I was going to eat/how, and then really just melted down once I got to the meal itself. Only issue I had this time was that I was sleep deprived coming off my night shift and rushing from making everyone’s food that I was halfway through my burger before I realized I hadn’t even tasted it: I was just shoveling it down trying to get to the “next objective”. Slowed myself down and savored it.

Taking tomorrow off of DW, as I don’t have any forced downtime coming up that I’m aware of. Got the first week knocked out: 5 more to go. I’m so over gaining weight, so a break will be nice. That said, I’m tossing up a new idea of keeping the weight the same as beginners for my deadlift workout and using the axle instead of the texas deadlift bar. Got a day to make a decision on it.