Training Log: Entry 3194

AM WORKOUT (0420 wake up via alarm)

**5/3/1 BUILDING THE MONOLITH** Week 6, Workout 3

SUPERSETS (pull-bench)

Low handle trap bar pulls

5x175

5x265

5x345

5x390

3x5x435

Axle bench press

5xAxle

5x136

5x191

5x216

5x5x241

KB rows

35+9+6x40kg (rest pause)

Poundstone Curls

100xAxle (91 unbroken)

END OF REQUIRED WORK

2x10 Standing ab wheel

Breakfast

VERY short walk w/dog (8 degrees out, a 72 degree swing from the temperature on Monday, dog is too old to deal with that nonsense)

Notes:

* I am honestly surprising myself with my performance in this final week.  This is the workout I look forward to the least, and it was going to be challenging with those trap bar pulls AND that bench is heavy for me these days, but I really didn’t have any issues.  I wonder if I stumbled onto something good here by starting the program with a feast and coasting into a famine for the final 2 weeks.  Despite the reduced calories, I really still seem to have a lot of output in me.  It’s like I’m still coasting on the fumes of the feast.  However it works, I’ll take it.

* I deviated from the plan on the KB rows.  Part of it was because time was running short, and part of it is because I flat out hate doing rows and wanted an excuse to do fewer of them, so getting to 50 as fast as possible seemed good. Loosened up the form and did them a bit more Kroc-row esque, but for the life of me I can never get that whole “put your whole soul into one set” thing people talk about when it comes to single arm rows.  These were still tough and I got a good pump out of them, but they wouldn’t be a good habit for the whole program.

* 1 rep PR on those poundstone curls.  Not as much standing ab wheel as I’d like, but time was short.  

* I am really starting to see some leanness shinning through on this famine.  Big thing is I’ve gone back to what works: simple Metabolic Drive mixed in water.  I was getting cute with some egg whites and bone broth before, trying to still equal out the protein content but create more food volume, resulting in me using less powder, but it really seems like there’s something special to be said about Metabolic Drive.  Really, this whole Building the Monolith experience has been a good lesson on not messing with success.  Training less, going back to my modified Velocity Diet/Apex Predator, all those things that worked before KEEP working.  But, of course, with experiments we can validate that knowledge.  And, of course, there’s the NiN lyrics “for once in my life I feel complete…and I still wanna ruin it”.  It’s just who we are, haha.