8/1/19
Weight: 203.2
Easy Does It
LISS
25 minutes x 6% grade x 2.5mph x BW
Slept a bunch yesterday, slept well last night, feeling considerably better today, may lift tomorrow, may not, if I do it’ll be a light full body blood flow workout and nothing too taxing.
Weight is much better today, tried to maintain calories through the feverish days despite a lack of appetite, I always figure the more fuel your body has when you’re ill, the better.
8/2/19
Weight: 202.4
Bench
CGBP
8 x 135
5 x 185
3 x 205
3 x 225
1 x 245
1 x 265
1 x 285
Paused Bench (standard grip)
2 x 5 x 185
Floor Press
8 x 135
5 x 185
3 x 225
2 x 245
1 x 265
Superset:
Dips
3 x 15 x BW
WG Pull ups
3 x 10 x BW
Superset:
Rolling Decline Triceps
3 x 12 x 45
Upper Back “fly”
3 x 15 x 30
Better day than expected, fully played it by ear, and felt pretty good so worked up to some moderate singles and called it a day, technically was supposed to be back/deadlift, but I figured that’d be a bit too taxing for my body at the moment. Openers have been determined for the mock meet, I think:
1st 2nd 3rd
365 385 405+ (Squat)
275 295 305+ (Bench)
455 485 505+ (Deadlift)
Firsts and seconds are things that I feel like I can hammer basically on any given day, at this point, thirds are fairly conservative, but just gonna play those a bit by ear on the day of.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I’m doing, but am kind of excited for our little mock comp, just to kinda see where my shit is when stacked up person to person with some other people.
Weight is continuing to slowly migrate south, I’m cool with that, doesn’t seem to be affecting strength at all (got plenty of fat to spare, ha)
Haven’t been active in here, but definitely still following. You’ve gotten a fuck ton stronger D. That 405 for 15 was massive! Good luck on your mock meet.
8/5/19
Weight: 204.8
Taper: Bench
2 x 5 x 135
3 x 1 x 185
1 x 1 x 205
3 x 1 x 225
Giant Set:
Dips
3 x 12 x BW
Banded Triceps w/ fat grip
3 x 10 x Double Purple
Banded Pull Down
3 x 15 x double purple
Pull Ups
3 x 8 x BW
Incline DB Bench
2 x 12-15 x 55
LISS
Treadmill
20 minutes x 2.8-3.0mph x 10% incline
Feeling good today, 225 (72.5% of projected 3rd attempt) moved quick, fast, and in a hurry. Figured I’d cut overall workout volume by about 50% and add in recovery stuff (LISS) for the remainder, figure that’ll have me feeling and sitting pretty come Saturday.
@oldbeancam thanks, man! Where’s your log at, ha?! I know it’s been brought up a few times, pretty sure you’d have a few people jump in to follow.
It’d be pretty lack luster. Haha besides, I have a hard enough time keeping my own personal training log. It’d be filled with a lot of “sorry I haven’t logged in a week” or “here’s the last 5 workouts.” 
8/6/19
Weight: 202.4
Taper: Squat
2 x 8 x 45
3 x 135
2 x 225
1 x 275
2 x 1 x 315
SSB Good Morning
1 x 20 x 45
2 x 10 x 95
OHP
Hammer Curls
LISS
Treadmill x 10% incline x 2.8-3.0mph x BW
Felt ok, 315 felt much heavier than it should’ve, not really good with that, ha. Gah, I hate squatting at the moment, need to fix that.
I’m just here for the high rep deads!!! Great job 
8/7/19
Weight: 202.2
Taper: Deads
Conventional (All mixed, beltless)
5 x 135
3 x 225
2 x 1 x 315
2 x 1 x 365
2 x 1 x 385
Strict BB Row
3 x 8 x 135
Banded DB RDL (bands out in front)
3 x 10 x 75 + double black
Hammer Curls
3-5 x 10-12 x 25
Switched bars at 365, definitely felt the difference, much stiffer than the ones we will be using for the comp, thicker as well, didn’t like that, ha. Everything felt tight and fast up to that ~80% though, so…yeah, everything is where it should be, I think.
Weight is good, I think I may be under 200 come Saturday, not really aiming for it, call it a soft goal.
Thursday and Friday will be body weight stuff and active recovery, keep blood flow, and I can’t just not do anything, movement wise.
Haven’t been following along like I should, you’re a strong dude, I should probably pay more attention over here.
Fixed it for you thanks, man! Glad to have ya along.
that’s the theory of relativity at work right there.
Does not compute. Does your gym not have an extra pair of 45’s to throw on the bar? 505lbs should be a cake walk for you.
Ha, we’ve got plenty of 45s, I just can’t lift 'em I pulled a fairly fast 505 not so long ago, but I simply haven’t latched into 500+ enough to ‘know’ what’s gonna be there, and I figure my first goal is to go 9/9 and set some sort of baseline. Rep strength seems to be an awful predictor of my 1 rep strength (outside of doubles and triples). Part of it is mental, as well, pretty sure you called me out on that with my squatting years ago, now, it’s a big reason I’ve been messing around with the ME method, to teach myself to strain a bit.
8/8/19
Weight: 204.0
Light Movement and LISS
Nothing wild, super tired, girls have been at daycare for the last couple days and decided that last night would be the time to get sick, ha, we knew it was coming, but I thought I’d have some time haha
Matt Wenning is doing a seminar less than an hour from my doorstep next month and I really hate being a responsible adult at times like this, I’d love to go and participate, but can’t justify dropping 700+ for a two day seminar, no matter how good it is, ha. But shit…it’d be cool!
Yeah, I’m still a jerk like that!
@MarkKO (also anyone with any type of competing experience, please chime in!) found another little ‘for fun’ meet at the beginning of September, how would you go about going basically back to back with ‘meets’? Obviously not ideal, but I literally found out about it this morning, and it’s a fundraiser, so nothing overly serious (obviously still want to move weight, ha)
That close together I honestly have very little exortience on how to set this kind of thing up I’m afraid. So take the below with a Stan Efferding dose of salt because I’m cobbling it together out of Greg’s peak and principles.
Your first meet is this weekend, right? So you’ve got maybe three weeks until your second meet. Plus you’ve effectively deloaded some all this week too. Now, looking at your taper I’d say it was still too much volume, so now that probably works in your favour.
In meet one you set your third attempts as within five pounds of your best. Under, over, doesn’t matter. Just stick in that range.
For the next two weeks all you do (and I mean all, not a lateral raise more) is in week one hit 2x1x90 per cent of that third followed by 3x3x60 per cent paused for squat and bench and two inch deficit for dead; and in week two 3x1x80 per cent. Each lift on a separate day. One week out from the second meet you deload completely. No gym. Nothing, just stretching, eating and sleeping.
If you have under three weeks you drop the second week of 3x1 and drop your percentages to 85 in week one. The key is to have a full week of rest going in to your second meet.
Then on meet day you base all your attempts on what you hit in the first meet:
First is 90 per cent
Second is 100 per cent
Third is 102-3 per cent
I genuinely appreciate the response you put together, but the problem has solved itself, all the folks that signed up buy didn’t pay (“Oh, yeah, we will definitely be there and pay on Saturday”) came up hurt…like literally 6-8 people got mysterious injuries over the last week haha so it’s back to normal programming for me 
Notes: These comps are all ‘for fun’ meaning there is no affiliation with a ruling body, just local gyms putting them on.
Powerlifting:
Sep 7 (as part of the Wenning Seminar) about 45 minutes away
November (TBD) about 45 minutes away
Strongman:
June 2020 (I missed the contest this year, wasn’t paying attention)
These are all three that I’m considering, the 7th would just be fit into my training as well as possible, but the November one probably has some potential to actually be planned and peaked for.
Go for November. Greg’s peaking program is 20 USD or so and you could use it for that.