Training Log: Entry 2598

BUILDING THE MONOLITH Week 1, Workout 2

AM WORKOUT (0313 wake up via windstorms)

SUPERSETS (dead-bench)

Texas power bar touch and go deadlifts
5x135
5x225
5x370
5x425
3x5x475

Axle bench press
5xAxle
5x136
5x206
5x241
5x5x271

Band pull aparts
2x25

DB rows 105
50 reps in 3:40

Poundstone curls
185xAxle

40 reverse hypers
25 reverse hyper leg curls

CONDITIONING

Fran+ (strict chins)

Time: 6:00

20 standing ab wheels
25 dips

Notes: We've got 40mph winds right now and they were keeping me up all night, so I got up and knocked this out.  I broke a serious taboo by deadlifting at 0300, which meant I had to lower the bar under VERY strict control, which added a new element of suck to the workout.  Week 1 is always a wake-up call: I'm gonna need to eat REAL big to get through this.  Made it through everything, but it wasn't easy.  Now, there IS the x-factor that I completed the day 1 workout like 11 hours before this, so I'm definitely not running things ideally, but challenges are good.

Fran was pretty brutal, but interestingly enough it was the chins that did me in whereas the thrusters were like butter.  My conditioning is absolutely at a new level these days.

Got family coming into town, so this worked out perfectly.  Can take the weekend a little easier.  If all goes well too, I should be getting a new-to-me GHR to replace my broken one.

PM WORKOUT (1500)

10 rounds of Dan John's "Armor" complex, with 5 reps of some sort of daily work between rounds.  Didn't time it, but it got my heart beating.

My legs are stupid sore.  Would be nice to take the prowler out sometime, but it doesn't look in the cards with company present.