Training Log: Entry 3567

AM WORKOUT (0355 natural wake up, snoozed until 0400)

*Tactical Barbell Operator* Cycle 2, Week 4, Workout 3

MAIN WORK

SSB Squat

3x5x305

ALTERNATE w/

Axle strict press from rack

3x5x156+1 push press rep per set

6 chins between sets

(3) Texas Deadlift Bar Mat Pulls (12 deep breaths between attempts)

12+5+5x425

ASSISTANCE

4 rounds of

* 10x80lb rows

* 20x270lb reverse hypers

* 10x53lb axle curls

* 6 hanging leg raises

Notes:

* After having about 4.5 days off of work and my knee and back feeling really awesome and then coming back and the pain returning, I think I’ve identified that sitting too much at work is causing me issues.  Going to try to work around that.

* Things felt heavy today, so I was glad it was just 3 sets.  I’m thinking about making all of next week 3 sets, in preparation for the comp.  I could also do 4-3-4, or 4-3-5 or play around in other ways.  

* Deadlifts are really just feeling great again.  It used to basically be a competition to see how long I could endure the pain of the deadlift, but now it’s just another exercise.  Good to be back to that.

* Made it through the full 4 rounds of the assistance work.  After those deadlifts, it’s exhausting.

* Weighed 81.6 again: same as Monday.  That was after sweating quite a bit, but it also does mean I have a little wiggleroom for making weight.  Balancing act of being confident I can make weight without losing so much that I get weak before the comp.  Contemplating just brining a ketobrick to the competition and eating it post weigh in, to have one less thing to worry about.

* Tang Soo Do again tonight.  One of our black belts is going to test for the next rank, and it requires being able to do 50 push ups, 50 sit ups and 50 jumping jacks at the end of the test, and we’ve been told we’ll be ending all classes with that same requirement until they test, so that we can all get stronger.  That said, we completely didn’t do that last class, but maybe we’ll be held to it for the remainder.  Be good to get in a little more fitness.