Training Log: Entry 2571

AM WORKOUT (0405 natural wake up, good sleep)

CIRCUIT (no rest between exercises) of chin-abs-chin-neck-chin-shrug-repeat

Chins (various grips)
11x10

Standing ab wheel
3x7

Neck harness 55lbs
3 sets

Kelso shrugs w/swiss bar 125lbs
4 sets

CIRCUIT of rows-dips-pulls

Axle rows against light bands
12,9,7,7,6

Dips
5x10

Band pull aparts
5x10

SUPERSET shrugs-pulls

Axle shrugs against short average bands
1x52

Facepulls
1x100

Kroc rows 115
1x21

Notes: Getting the bodybuilding work done first with deads slated for once the family wakes up.  Keeping up this trend.  Really fighting myself NOT to throw in some sort of conditioning gasser, but I wanna come into deads strong today as it's my heaviest day and I'd like to close out this week with a W.  I like what I came up with on the Kelso's using the swiss bar.  Each set I'd use a different hand spacing, and for the final set I rotated between all 3.  I pulled from my yoke with the j-hooks set low and my head braced on my reverse hyper to maintain torso angle, which might actually be a decent bent over row set up now that I think about it: will have to give that some more doing next time and see how it flies.  

AM WORKOUT II (0900)

Texas Deadlift Bar touch and go Deadlifts

5x135

5x225

5x315

5x405

5x460

4+1x515 (12 breath rest pause)

5x10x405 (20:00 total, started with 2:00 between sets and ended with 2:55)

Reverse hypers 180

1x44

Notes: Continued trend of top end strength not being awesome but BBB work getting done. I’m celebrating the victories, but learning the lessons too. That 4+1 was “eyeball on cheeks”, to steal a phrase from Jasha Faye. I miss the strength, but glad to still have the intensity in me.

Finished the day with an 80 rep set of 135lbs on high handle trap bar pulls after mowing the lawn for an hour and then took the dog for a 2 mile walk. Lots of activity. Went out for wings and devoured everything in front of me. That primalism is coming back, especially post deads.