After an emotional hiatis, I am back. Yesterday was Deadlift day. Felt great getting 325lb at 6 reps. I think I might have gotten one or two more reps in. I think the high amounts of lat and upper back volume is paying off in general. Heres the previous thread with my asking hunger advice as well as my current split. Advice for Stronger Willpower to Fight Food Cravings/In General - #16 by Darthzilla99
Did all the assitence work listed except the hypers as I forgot. Also, instead of defranco agile 8, I found I had an old log that listed Chris Duffin’s squat and dead warm up and since I did not have all the equipment for agile 8, I am doing the Chris Duffin warm up instead for squats and deads. For those curious, BEST Warm Up for Squats & Deadlifts - YouTube
In addition to using the junior gorilla gripz on my Deadlift warm up sets, I am now using them on my hammer curls. Hopefully that will work my grip while my using straps for a lot of my other pulling movements. I read in starting strength a long time ago that it can be argued that doing double overhand grip on the warm ups is sufficient work for grip strength, so I thought why not take it a step further and use fat grip style training for the warm ups and curls.
Also, did three runs on the stadium stars. I do not know how high the stadium is, but it’s a typical high school football stadium. My conditioning goal for right now is get to 5 runs with only walking back down as the only rest. Right now I can get to three.
Yesterdays diet went well. I had 3500 calories total so that went okay with 180 grams of protein. I also did my Dead day before dinner so that should help. Dinner was German dumplings and goulash. In addition to the fast days, I am going to start waiting until after my workouts to eat my carbs of the day.
Today’s plans are bench day and light swimming. I will see how 215 on the bench goes.