Training Log: Entry 2597

AM WORKOUT (0344 natural wake up)

**SUPER SQUATS** Workout 4

(3)Incline bench/weighted chin superset
2x12x85s/2x15x12.5
1x11x85s

Behind the neck press/band pull aparts superset
3x10x100/50 reps total

Squats/DB pull overs
20x330lbs/20x20lbs

Max reps existential nihilism for 1 minute

Kroc rows
16x115

Axle shrugs against strong short bands
1x31

**POST WORKOUT SHAKE**

**CONDITIONING/ASSISTANCE**

Reverse hypers
40x360

Tabata burpee chins with double clean+press 24kg KBs between rounds

Notes:

* Slept until 1 minutes before the alarm going off, which was an awesome sign.  I am not 100%, but I’m at 100% of 80%, and that’s pretty good.  Coughing fits are far less dramatic.  The hamstring is still iffy, which is why I’m squatting very slowly.  One of the benefits of having trained so long is the amount of body awareness/control I have such that I can feel the muscle buckling under load wanting to strain again and can slow down enough to shift the load in order to get through the rep.  That, in turn, made this an extremely challenging set of 20 reps, but still not as brutal as the Good Mornings.  I may honestly consider an approach here where, after so many squat workouts, I swap one out with a good morning as a means to give the legs a break while still keeping the sheer brutality of the program in tact.  It seems to fit.

* BtN press might be a little on the light side, but everything else is exactly dialed in as needed.

* Kept the sweats on to keep the hamstring warm throughout the workout. Always a good trick.

* I was absolutely wasted after those squats, and hurting on that conditioning.   I’ll probably work something else in later.

PM WORKOUT

Got TABEARTA done when I got home.  First time in a while I could complete the workout.  My cardio is returning.  Hamstring is mad at what I did to it this morning but it's still cooperating, and my right oblique is a little achy: most likely was leaning into it to compensate during the squats.

Thinking a Dan John-esque hard workout-weighted vest walk-hard workout tomorrow morning.  First time I've actually been able to get this program on track since I started by having it be Lift-no lift-lift.  I'll have to actually figure out a plan.  Part of me thinks I need to start including heavier deadlifts into the conditioning circuits so I can keep the movement grooved.