Training Log: Entry 3030

AM WORKOUT (0405 wake up via alarm) FASTED

**MESS (Mass-Easy, Strength Simple** Workout 28: Mass Made Simple Workout 13

*EASY STRENGTH WORK*

(3) Axle double overhand deficit deadlift/weighted chin superset
3x3x236+chains
3x3x40

Standing ab wheel
1x10

Axle continental and press away
3x3x166

Reverse hyper
75x250

*MASS MADE SIMPLE WORK*

Complex A (row-clean-front squat-press-squat-good morning)
5x2x145 (1 min rest)

Buffalo Bar Squat
10x102
5x142
3x192
10x212
*58+2x192* (3 rep PR in single set)

9 minutes of assistance work (Conan curls, pull aparts, kelso shrugs, shrugs, pushdowns, dips, lateral raises)

BREAKFAST

Walk w/dog

Notes:

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* Fatigue is still hitting hard.  My nutrition has trended toward lean proteins vs fats as I’m making this a semi-famine.  I figured I could ride that into the home stretch of MMS, and I’m still seeing growth, which is awesome, but it’s definitely hard work.  I DID eat well yesterday, which helped.

* Playing around with exercise order on the Easy Strength, basically running things backwards.  It’s mostly out of laziness: the bars are loaded from the previous workout, so I run it in the previous order.  But I also remember an idea Pavel wrote about in “Beyond Bodybuilding” wherein you specifically take the same workout but change the order of the exercises as a means of progression.  NOT pressing first thing is pretty nice, because I don’t run as much of a risk of blacking out.

* That squat was absolutely bonkers.  It’s wild when getting to 50 is when the work STARTS.  And I weighed in at 171.2 this morning, so I’m hitting 20lbs over bodyweight for 8 reps beyond the goal of finishing the program: that’s pretty goddamn outstanding.  And that also shows about a 5lb bodyweight growth, so that’s cool.

* Getting all the complexes was a win.  I do feel like I’m leaving some weight on the platform just because my technique is so poor.  I foresee MMS being a go-to supplemental protocol, and when I run it again I may try different implements to make it work.

* Got Tang Soo Do tonight, wherein I should be granted my new belt, so that’s cool.