Training Log: Entry 2684

AM WORKOUT (0345 wake up via alarm)

**SUPER SQUATS** Workout 12

(3) Incline DB Bench/Weighted Chins superset
1x12x110s
1x10x110
1x9x110/2x15x25 (need to re-accomplish, got 14 reps on the first set before resetting)

BtN Press/pull apart superset
3x10x140/50 total reps

Breathing Squats/Pull overs
20x400/20x20lbs

*ASSISTANCE CIRCUIT* Row into hyper into abs 

23x110 Kroc Row
40x180 reverse hyper
10 standing ab wheels

30 GHRS

**POST WORKOUT SHAKE**
**CONDITIONING**

Tabata front squats w/buffalo bar w/85lbs

Notes:

* I am all that is man.  

* This was a 10lb jump from last session.  I realized I was letting 400lbs get in my head, and I was just going to spend the whole weekend stewing about it, which was going to make things worse, so rather than 395 today, we did 400.  It was absolutely the right call.  On my final warm-up set (which is a single with 400lbs), my right hip buckled and I threw all the weight onto my right forearm flexor, which was, of course, agonizing.  But when I got under the bar for the real set, it felt fantastically light and I was strong.  I knew after rep 1 that I was going to make it today.  I felt that rep 20 was on the shallow side, but I’m beyond the point of caring about squat depth on this program.  Squats are simply a means to carry weight on my body: the test is staying strong with 400lbs on my back for SO long.

* After this was done, I was absolutely destroyed.  Yeah, the forearm sucked, but I just had nothing left in me, even for 10+ minutes afterwards.  This just took a chunk of my soul with it.  I caught myself telling myself “I’m not recovering…I’m not recovering” right before I started the ab wheel, and I found myself remembering Jesse Marunde dying from a hard squat workout and could totally understand how it could happen.

* The presses are moving great, chins are fantastic, we’re just in such a good place here.

* Those tabata front squats were a decision made out of “what can I possibly do that doesn’t load my forearm?”  They worked ok.

PM WORKOUT

Got in 50 something burpees in 2:30 and then a full Tang Soo Do class.  Got a great weekend ahead.