Training Log: Entry 2599

AM WORKOUT (0335 Natural Wake up)

**SUPER SQUATS** Workout 5

Axle clean and strict press away/band pull apart superset

3x10x146/50 reps total

Weighted dips/axle row superset

3x12x65/2x15x203

Squats/pull overs

20x335/20x20lbs

Wonder why I am so stupid for 1 minute

Axle SLDLs

15x253

Poundstone Curls

156xAxle

**POST WORKOUT SHAKE**

**ASSISTANCE/CONDITIONING**

20 standing ab wheels

40x90 Reverse hyper

25 pushdowns

Neck work

Tabata burpee chins w/24kg DKB clean and press between rounds

Notes:

* The meds I’m taking to help me sleep through the next with this illness make it very difficult to get up to train in the morning.  This was the last thing I wanted to do, but with Tang Soo Do tonight I knew I had zero wiggleroom for my schedule.  I’m glad I did it, and it went better than expected.  My hamstring hurts more during the day to day stuff, but was actually doing better through the squat.  No bulging around the injured area this time.  My right abdominal corner flared up a touch, almost hernia-esque, but I imagine I’m just compensating in all sorts of weird ways.

* Talking more about the squats, my breathing is shallower than I’d like, but with RSV that’s about as good as it will get.  I’m enjoying my time training beltless (let’s not be stupid about my floppy strongman belt here), as it’s been a good reminder of fundamentals.  I had room for a little more depth, and once my hamstring is less touchy I’ll shoot for it, but it’s obvious by the state I’m in at the end of the squats that it’s having the desired training effect.  I need to get a little smarter about where on my back I’m holding the bar, as this is the second workout where my hands started going numb at the end and it became a question on if I would lose the bar before I ran out of squats.  

* There’s a total absence of fear compared to the first time I ran this program.  There’s a slight degree of dread, but more in the “I have to wait in line at the post office” style vs “oh my god this might kill me” style.  I know I have to suffer through the squats, but the suffering is subtle.  But I’m still young in the program.

* With the absence of the gallon of milk a day, I’m just letting the calories flow free from other high quality sources.  It’s been liberating.

* Weight on the dips may need to accelerate even faster.  The press is exactly dialed in.  Rows are basically Malcolm X to get the reps, and the SLDLs and Curls are in a post destroyed state, so I’m just holding on to survive.   My conditioning is still pretty rough with the sinus infection, but I’m doing what I can.

PM WORKOUT

Got in 22 ABCs in 5 minutes. Earned every single one of them. Legit felt like I was going to die. Cardio is getting back, but its not a pretty process.