Training Log: Entry 2514

AM WORKOUT (0540 wake up via alarm, 0700 workout)

50 chins w/rest pause

Axle deadlifts
5x136
5x226
1x296
5x346
5x401
5x451
13+4+6x346 (DC rest pause)

Got another 50 chins and pull aparts in between sets there

Axle shrugs against bands
1x112

GIANT SET CIRCUIT (no rest) hyper-abs-dips

Reverse hyper 410
5x8

Standing ab wheel
5x4

Dips
5x10+25 pushdowns at end

Axle rows against bands
12+4+4 DC rest pause

Notes: Pulling an axle remains soul draining, but it's good for you.  I ended up falling forward on the 3rd rep of the first rest pause set and pulled it dead stop from there.  Humid as hell in the garage: was like I went swimming afterwards.  Decent back workout.  Want to get in some conditioning a little later.

I'll be dropping out of the Sep strongman comp, as I got my third stripe in Tang Soo Do last night and will have belt testing on that day.  Been awesome having this family activity.

I was a bad boy in Tang Soo Do last night.  We were doing 1-step self defense drills.  I get paired with the very senior student, because he's the only other man in the class and these drills can get a little physical.  Since he's advanced, he gets to do drills I'm not trained in yet, so he's explaining to me how I'm supposed to attack him for him to drill his defense.

He says "Ok, for this next one, you're going to do get me in a hold from behind, like a standing rear-naked choke"

I go "OK!"  It wasn't the deepest choke I ever sunk in my life, but I have a feeling he was not quite anticipating it.  The instructor picked us up off the floor and explained to him the proper defense.

Got the critique that I'm too stiff.  Been hearing that my whole training career.  Hard to take the lifting out of me.

@tlgains I have played a LOT of video games, haha.  It includes those.  Most of my youth was spent playing video games.

@SkyzykS I genuinely feel a little bad how much my alpha male instincts kick in at moments like that, haha.  I've been a good boy for the most part but every once in a while I feel a need to point out that belt color only means so much.

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PM WORKOUT (1400)

"LAST CASTLE"

Carry 150lb keg

Do 6 KB snatches w/45lb bell

Carry keg

Do 10 swings

Do it for 26 rounds

Notes: Watch me engage in peace talks with a hornet around round 9.  Otherwise, this remains absolutely brutal and an awesome way to make everything hurt.

But for some real new: got back from my physical.  Blood pressure is 118/66.  Resting heart rate is 52 after an energy drink and a deadlift workout.  

Biggest news: LDL was 81!  I've been off meds since October.  The doc's words were "clearly your lifestyle changes are working".  It's a total of a 119 point drop since last year.  I'm just over the moon.  It's been awesome to find balance between training, nutrition and living.  And this was a reading taken AFTER a weight gain phase.  I imagine it'd be even better at the end of this weight loss.  HDL was 87, always awesome.  Will have to view the full panel sometime to get the triglycerides.