Training Log: Entry 2406

DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 6, Workout 1

AM WORKOUT (0335 wake up via alarm)

Texas deadlift bar deadlifts

4x12x410

11x410

10x410

13x410

18x410 (much rest pausing)

Box jumps

5x10

POST WORKOUT SHAKE

CONDITIONING

15 Buffalo Bar Squats w/230-15 chins-15 dips-15 Buffalo Bar Squats

Notes: Gather ‘round children, as I tell you a story about the Deepest of Waters…

Over the past 3 days, I have performed 217 Amor Building Complexes, the majority of which performed with 24kg bells. I have performed Tabata KB front squats daily. I tore a chunk off my right hand and glued it back together so I could get in 50 burpee chins, and then got in 50 more the next day. I have been undereating, underhydrating, undersleeping. It was a prime day for the hardest deadlift workout of my life.

I rested 4 minute between sets, minus the final set, which I granted myself a 5 minute rest. The first 2 sets felt decent. After that, I knew I was in trouble, and my original plan of 7x12 and then gut out 16 was going to take a hit and need revising. Chaos is the plan. I just kept grinding out sets, hoping my hand would hold together, scrapping the ever loving f**k out of my shins even through the sweatpants (which now have a lovely bloodstain around the knee).

On set 7, I got through 9 reps before I had to set the bar down (I pull touch and go because it’s harder). I gathered myself and got out 4 more to make up for some previous efforts.

I steeled myself for that final set…and got 8. I needed 18. So I settled in, stayed strapped to the bar, and “ate my vegetables”. No leaving the table until I was done. Shook out to 2 triples and a 4 to get me 10 more reps. Just gather myself, break the bar, get the reps, die, become reborn, and repeat.

When it was done and I came upstairs to take my shower, I had discovered I had blown out all the blood vessels around the edge of my eyes such that it looked like I was wearing a raccoon mask. My forehead is a lovely splotch of red as well. And for some reason my forearms have broken out into a rash, and ANYWHERE that I had the slightest of open wound has pushed blood through the surface.

No matter how “easy” this program gets, it will always be transformative.

The “box jumps” at the end were purely just hanging on, and my time was closing out when conditioning happened. I still got in what I needed, and intend to still do either tabata squats or ABCs later today.

My week gets crazy from here, with some travel, but I’m so glad I got this workout in. This is the one that matters.

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Closed the day out with 20 ABCs in 5 minutes.  Moving slow, but to be expected.  In turn, I'm "done" with daily Tabata Front Squats.  I've proven whatever point I had there.  I'll still do some sort of daily KB work, but plan is to alternate between ABCs and front squats.  Spending April getting into great "ABC shape", I'd like to maintain that.

Weighed myself after my shower at the end of the day today: 193.6.  Surprised it's that low with how much I've been eating, but it means 185 will be easy to make in June.