Training Log: Entry 3025

AM WORKOUT (0407 wake up via alarm) FASTED

**MESS (Mass Easy/Strength Simple)** Workout 22: Mass Made Simple Workout 11

*EASY STRENGTH WORK*

Axle continental and press away/weighted chin superset

3x3x171

3x3x45

(3) Axle Double Overhand Deficit Deadlift

3x3x246+chains

Standing ab wheel

1x10

Reverse hyper

75x235

*MASS MADE SIMPLE WORK*

Complex A (row-clean-press-squat-good morning)

5x145

2x5x135

1 min rest between complexes, many failures on pressing

Buffalo bar squat

10x102

5x112

10x192

212 “to 50”

27+8+7+8 (12 deep breaths between attempts)

Breakfast

Walk w/dog

Notes: 

* Didn’t log it yesterday, but after dinner got in a 4 mile run and 1.5 mile walk with the Mrs.  Totally unplanned, but Chaos is the plan.  Came into this fatigued, but had a solid enough meal the evening before that I was feeling mighty, so the press, chin, deadlift and reverse hyper were strong.  Complexes fell apart.  I am not eating enough in general, and the complexes are where that comes through, because I’m not progressing on them in the manner prescribed.  The clean is ultimately my downfall on these.   There’s actually a weightlifting gym not too far from my home, when life settles down, I might invest in some private lessons to learn the basics of the movement.  OR I may re-run this program using a different complex, or a different implement.  No shortage of avenues for success here.

* Really digging how fast I’m getting on my continentals.  This consistent practice is paying off.

* Major victory on the squat today.  25 was the goal, 27 a bonus, and getting the whole thing done in 1 fewer set a significant win.  Also less time spent feeling sorry for myself between attempts: 12 breaths and get after it.  

* I’m testing for brown belt in Tang Soo Do tomorrow, and demonstrating my “creativity hyung” tonight in class.  I call it “Fight in a phonebooth”: all short range attacks like elbows and knees.  Really, it’s Muay Thai done in a Tang Soo Do dobak.