Training Log: Entry 2376

DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 2, Workout 1 

AM WORKOUT (0315 natural wake up)

Texas deadlift bar touch and go deadlifts
10x10x410 w/3:50 between sets

5x10 band pull aparts between first 5 sets

Box jumps
5x10

Reverse hypers/standing ab wheel (no rest between sets)
3x20x360/2x13

POST WORKOUT SHAKE

CONDITIONING

Buffalo Bar Squat (285)-chins-dips

15-5-10 in 6:54

Notes: I am so amped to have gotten this done.  410 is a chipshot PR over what I did last time on Deep Water Intermediate, but it dawned on me: I did 405 in the AFTERNOON, NOT first thing in the morning.  It's such a different world there.  And thinking more about that has had it dawn on me why my deadlift has been "lagging": I've finally started treating it like any other lift.  I used to have rituals built around deadlift workouts: specific meals, specific times of day to train, fatigue management protocols, etc.  I'm finally just getting after it, and it means I'm not at the top of my game...but my floor is rising hard and fast on this.  

EVERY SINGLE SET SUCKED.  The first one felt too heavy, and it just kept that way.  But I managed to hold my breath for the first 8 reps of the first 8 sets, and got through rep 7 on the final 2 sets.  100th rep required a deadstop pull vs a touch and go.

I am over the moon that this workout got done, and also now dealing with the horrible realization that I KNOW I can do this workout now...so now the standard is set.

Conditioning workout was just plain awful.  Had to keep chow down. 

PM WORKOUT (1600)

Tabata front squats w/47.5lb bells.  True tabata: go for the full 20 seconds.  Funny enough, by doing that, I STILL couldn't get 8 reps on the final round: only managed 6.  My quads were on fire from this and my lungs ached, so that's a win.  Curious how I'll do when it's not the day I did 100 deadlifts.

Tang Soo Do was basics night.  Always a good night, but coming into it post Deep Water made the new material very painful.