Training Log: Entry 3784

AM WORKOUT (0500 wake up via alarm)

TACTICAL BARBELL MASS PROTOCOL SPECIFICITY BRAVO Week 3, Workout 4

SSB Squat
4x8x325

Lever belt squat
4x8x330

Axle strict press from rack
3x8x146
5+3x146

(3) Incline DB bench
3x8x85s
6+2x85

Dip/HLR superset
17,15,13,11/3x10

Notes:

• Had the day off work, so slept in. Came up with a million plans on how to skip the squats, and then just knuckled up and did them. The 3rd set went better than the first 2 and gave me hope. The faster I did the squats, the sooner the set was over, and I kept it at 1 minute rest.

• Was surprisingly strong throughout. Rested 60-120-120 on the axle, then 90s on the DB. At that point, I was just thrashed and with this being the final workout of Specificity for this cycle, didn’t see a need to use weight on the dips.

• Weighed 82.0kg this morning. That’s a 2.2kg drop in 2 days, and a 1.3kg drop from yesterday. Apparently I was holding a lot of fluids. Things are fitting better, but it also makes feeling stronger today even more remarkable. I also don’t hurt as much as I expected after the deadlift yesterday.

• Tang Soo Do last night was a decent workout/amount of activity for the 90 minute class. At one point, we played a ring toss game, where, if you made the toss, you didn’t have to do they physical exercise on your deck of doom. I intentionally threw all my rings on the floor. I told my instructor “I’m not going to ‘win’ an opportunity to not do exercise”. They respected that.

• My competition has been moved from 8 Aug to 29 Aug. Gives me an extra 3 weeks to train for it, but I also don’t know if I want to spend 12 solid weeks in competition prep mode, so we’ll see. Chaos is always the plan. They also changed the weight classes, so now there’s only 4 groups to choose from, apparently something highland games does. I may go in the heaviest group, based off deadlift weight.