8/21/2021 Saturday
Iron Cardio/Hard Conditioning session.
95lb, floor to overhead, 10x10.
First 50 in 10 minutes, 12 minute break for chores, next 50 in 10:05 LOL.
Freakin’ loved this. Learned something too. Maybe one of you knows why this is?
When I try to rack the bar on my clavicles and leg drive it up, my right shoulder gets into a bind JUST before lockout. Like it was twisted from the beginning, and extending it reveals that issue at the top, though it wasn’t uncomfortable at the bottom.
Whereas, when I rack the bar on my upper chest with my forearms vertical, bar just below the clavicle, it’s not a problem at all.
I really wanted to get the hang of the clavicle rack and thus get a lot more out of the leg drive, but this has been the limiting factor there.
PS felt like a warrior - these sessions always get me fired up.
8/22 Sunday: 2.1 mile walk with stroller and occasionally baby in arms, then another 1 mile walk.
The hamstring soreness crept in from Saturday’s 100 reps, it’s a deep ham soreness that I haven’t had in a long time.
8/23 Monday:
Cycle 2 week 3 coffinworm, day 1.
Squat 5x 135, 155, 175, 200, 200, 200
100 BPAs (20 between each set of squats)
5x10 bench press 135,
superset with 5x10 abs.
5 minutes on the rower. EMOM sprint about 100 meters, then slow the rest of the minute, for 1100+ meters total.
This was a great session. Just the right amount of work for me today.
My first thought was ‘cramps’. Does it happen a lot? Does it always happen? Only when it gets heavy?
I do not have a pure clavicle rack, I am something between that and the Brute Force/Ignorance approach to push pressing. I find this works well enough for push pressing, because it is a different animal than jerks and push jerks where you are trying to throw yourself under the bar.
It happens every session that I try to use a clavicle rack and leg drive. But I can’t say for sure if it happens ever rep… further investigation is needed then! (It happens, so then I go back to a lazier rack to avoid it, I think).
It wasn’t heavy Saturday but there were a lot of reps in a hurry so not a quality data point…
Glad to know there’s a name for my style (Brute force/Ignorance)! Now I’m cool.
You don’t have the motion in the shoulder joint to get into the challenging position. Like you can go upper chest/forearms vertical OK. But you don’t have enough internal/external rotation in you shoulder (like arm bone rotating in the socket) for the more challenging position.
So you Start in a “twisted” arm position, that’s not exactly “right” for your shoulder. It’s OK at the bottom, but once your arm is extended with a bunch of weight held at arm’s length you feel the torque in the joint.
Maybe you could get your shoulder set into a more solid front rack position if you warmed up with a little internal/external rotation of your shoulder before overhead stuff.
Wednesday 8/25
Cycle 2 week 3 day 2
5s pro press and DL
Press 95,105,120. Didn’t know I had that top set in me.
Deadlift 225,255,290.
Ran out of plates for that topset and had to channel @simo74
Since I’ve worn a backpack with 40 pounds/ 18 kilos while deadlifting, one word of advice - ramp up the vest’s weight. Wearing weight while also lifting changes the balance, and ramping helps one learn how to properly set the back.
I’ve read much of your log but haven’t commented yet, @jdm135. Your goals are very similar to mine - 1/2/3/4 plates, ambulation conditioning - so I’m along for you log!
Awesome. I’ve never heard that but it makes walking sound cool. I’m up for a 1-2 mile run any time but theres enough baby walking to do every evening and some mornings.
I don’t comment here as much as I should. I commend how much intensity you manage to squeeze into your seemingly hectic life.
Out of curiosity, do you do these sessiona early in the AM? If that’s the case, even more impressive if you manage to not wake up any of your family lol
Thanks @Bagsy !
All my gym trips are early AM before work, but the home stuff is whenever I can get it in. That clean-and-press session was midafternoon and Wednesday’s “session” was ridiculous. Press and BPAs at breakfast, DL in the afternoon, no warmup, jumps, or assistance. Its been really busy at my house for the past few weeks, taking a toll on us honestly.
Edit to add: pretty much anything would wake the kids these days. So no 5am power cleans any more.
Edit to add notes. In a huge hurry, have been all week, friends coming from out of town. Barely made time for the lifts but it is important to me. I needed to hit my numbers this week and earn the opportunity to do jokers next week.
Lifting at home sucks, the energy isn’t the same.
5x10 squats were absolutely miserable. It’s not heavy. It just sucks. And way worse than the 5x10 bench I did Monday at the same percentage of tm. Which maybe tells something about my squat TM being too high or bench TM being too low.
