Training Log: Entry 2509

AM WORKOUT (0300 wake up via alarm)

Tower of Babel (240 front squat, 5 six count burpees between sets)

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

Time: 28:00

Put away plates, transition immediately to

11 rounds EMOM daily work w/4 40kg KB swing buy in

Transition immediately to

Tabata high handle trap bar pulls w/135

Proceed directly to Valhalla, eat to recover from death in battle, then out the door to work

Notes: This honestly went better than I expected. Was on the fence about loading weight for the workout. 240 was challenging enough. Comically, I forgot to put collars on the bar and didn’t notice until the 5 rep set, which is a decent sign that my front squats are pretty level and controlled.

Those tabata trap bar lifts ate my lunch at the end. Was aiming for the Dan John 8 rep minimums ala tabata front squats at the end.

Set a PR in getting the daily work knocked out. I’m seeing the benefits of carrying less fatigue.

Going to mow my lawn when I get home for a little extra conditioning.

EDIT: Oh yeah, came up with 2 new ideas for conditioning workouts. One is combining the Tower with Juarez, calling it “Climb the Tower, escape through the valley”. Start it off like Tower, push too hard and get to a really high top rep, and then Juarez Valley your way out of it. So if you work up to 9, next set will be 1, then 8, then 2, etc etc.

Other idea was “stagger steps”. Reps would go 1-2-3-2-3-4-3-4-5-4-5-6 etc etc until you can’t go on. I don’t think I’d work BACK at that point, but just end at the high rep.