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A few months ago (pre-C19), probably based on one of the logs of you psychos, I was at the gym and thought to myself “You know what, self? You should get good at clean pulls! Think of how awesome that would make you!”
So I picked up some moderate weight, did a clean pull, and basically smashed the ol’ twig and berries in the process. I then stopped.
That’s it. That’s the story.
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I’d blame Jon Andersen. I mean not to his face but thats what I would do.
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Deep Water: Beginner Program Week 4, Day 3
Strict Press
115 10x10
This was supposed to be 105. I loaded 115 without thinking about it (I was outside with a sweatshirt over my belt and it was raining on and off and quite windy, just wanted to be done with it) and did a set and was like wow, that seems kinda heavy to be doing 10 more sets of, then I realized I was 10 lbs over my working weight, so I naturally did the stupid thing and just did 9 more sets of it.
I hit true failure on my 10th set, could not get the 9th rep up and I gave a very slight knee bend and push press and had like a 5 second grind to the top, and I stood with my arms in the up position for a few seconds and started to get seriously dizzy, but I knew if I brought it down to the rack position and rested there was no way in hell to get it back up, so I let it drop with all the grace of a fat person falling off a cliff, and used the stretch reflex to start the rep, which only moved to about my nose before the grind started. I think I finished the rep bent like 45 degrees backwards and nearly tweaked my neck, but I got it, and I don’t care about the mini push press, I’m counting it.
Proud of 115 10x10, and appropriately scared of 2 minute rest periods next week. Week 1 I failed 105 with push presses and had to drop down to 95, now I just hit 10-20 lbs over my sets. Will post a video of set 7, the speed on my first presses was awesome.
Lateral Raises
3x10 with 25 lb plates
BB Curls
65 5x10
Situps and back extensions, 3x20, no rest
Just overall really hyped about my press performance despite still not moving much weight. I can seated shoulder press a good amount but standing OHP has always been a bitch for me, so yay.
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That’s definitely not a belt under my sweatshirt by the way, I’m just Dave Hoff today.
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Killing it flap.
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That’s no joke right there, even if the last few needed a bit of help. You’ll be able to tell your grandkids about this day, except make it snow instead of rain.
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Nice rack.
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Deep Water: Beginner Program Week 4, Day 4
Bench
205 3x10
CGBP
155 3x10
Feet elevated pushups
3xfailure
Dips
3xfailure
1 min plank and 20 sit-ups, 3 rounds, no rest
Feel beat up, as with every 4th day. Ate 8 eggs for breakfast, a protein shake and almonds a few hours later, almost 2 lbs of chili a couple hours before my workout, and just choked down 1.5lbs of chicken and broccoli. Am now dropping a painfully spicy deuce while sweating profusely. This is recovery, right?
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is this equivalent to “laying a brick?”
Depends on your meaning of laying bricks, but yes, assuming you’re talking about
pinching one off
molding a mud monkey
cutting rope
churning dookie butter
squeezing a bum slug
etc
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Wow, your repertoire of poop metaphors is almost as impressive as your training 
Gives deep water a whole new meaning.
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Are you saying that deepwater also improves your breadth of language use?
This program must truly be magical! 
Deep water is particularly useful when
Dropping the kids off at the pool.
Couldn’t resist!
While typing up this post? You are quite the…logger.
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I see what you did there.
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Hit Week 5 day 1 a day early so I can do a Murph tomorrow - got a few good friends from the Marines that aren’t here anymore, and Memorial day is always a bit somber of a weekend for me, but I’ve never done a Murph before and it seemed like a worthwhile pursuit. It’s also a really fucking stupid idea because 10x10 squats were a trainwreck.
Deep Water: Beginner Program Week 5, Day 1
Deadlifts
245 3x10
Squats
185 10x10 fdlasjflafj;kal
Lunges
3x10 with the bar
2x20 situps, 1x20 crunches and 3x20 back extensions, 3 sets, no rest
Tweaked my SI joint on a misgrooved squat set 9 
managed to do set 10, but it was about a 2:30 rest period. It’s funny, it’s been a week since I squatted (and last week was only 3x10) but I definitely felt the lack of recovery. Started to suck really hard around set 4, too. Anyways, got done, thought I was gonna vomit and had to sit down for a while. Loaded up the bar for lunges, SI joint on my left side screamed at me on my first lunge with my left leg, took the 10s off and just did the bar for my reps, and then after 2 sets of 20 sit-ups, my left side was legitimately swollen up and painful, so I finished with a set of 20 crunches, which I held for long enough each that they burned far more than the sit-ups but didn’t aggravate my swollen back. Still - I got through it, just had to drop 20 lbs on lunges and switch one set of sit-ups for crunches. Iced my back for a bit, then had to live up to my promise to take my boys to the playground, which ended up not being bad because I just jogged around with them playing tag for about 20 minutes and things kind of loosened up a bit. Definitely feel it right now, but I’ve done this so many times that I know when it’s serious and when it’s not - this is one of those ones that will likely feel a lot better by tonight and almost healed by tomorrow. Better be anyway, clean pulls are tomorrow, and I’m not skipping a day if I can help it, so it’ll be a heal or be killed kinda thing.
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Lol no idea what this means and yet I totally understand it. Good horrible work mate
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SI Joint feels 100% today. 0 problems. Weird thing is, I must have strained something in my leg - high up on the outside of my thigh is SUPER tender when I touch it and ESPECIALLY when I squat down anywhere near parallel. As such, I think clean pulls are going to hurt even more than if my SI joint had been hurt, lol. Good news is, I got through the last big squat day of the program - next week is 3x10 squats and 10x10 deadlifts, so I’ll be fine.
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