My gym recently got a SSB, which I was immediately excited about. I have a history of wrist and shoulder injuries from martial arts and both front and back squats make my upper body cranky after lots of squatting. Man oh man, do I ever love this bar. It feels way more natural to me. Seeing as I don’t plan on ever competing and only use squats to increase lower body strength, the SSB is great.
Once again, throbbing headache on the AMRAP. This is frustrating.
SSB good mornings felt great too.
By the time I finished all the prowler pushes, combined with everything else, my ENTIRE lower half was so exhausted I could barely walk. Felt like a drunk person. 10/10, would repeat.
Not as many reps as I’d like on the press AMRAP sets, but once I started needing to grind I could feel the exertion headache coming on, so I cut it there.
Surprised myself on the weighted dips. This is something I’d like to progressively add to.
It’s crazy how fast my endurance improves. Last week, those 3x100 yard zercher carries had me gasping for air and dying. This week I got through all 3 sets with zero issue. I’m definitely built for endurance.
Definitely had more reps in me on the deadlifts, but I felt the headache coming on right around rep 7 and cut it at 8. I would imagine 2-3 more reps were in the tank at least, as I hadn’t begun to slow down much. Similar situation on the drop set; got to 15 and had to cut it, though I imagine 20 was there.
Have always thought that lifting that big ass stone and walking it would be pretty cool.
Do you have/or plan to get access to a coffin for some load carries.
While I’m not at all committed to it I’m actually better placed than ever to take a run at it because I’ve just joined a powerlifting/strongman gym where they got loadable coffins.
Thanks! I wish I was actually good at curls, haha. Keep in mind that’s 65lbs TOTAL (15lbs for the bar plus a 25 on each side), and I’m using a little body English. I wish I was repping 65 per arm.
I don’t know what happened, but I got buried by the sandbag. Last week the pick seemed so easy and 40 yards was no problem. This week I couldn’t pick it horizontally like last week, and a vertical pick was BRUTAL. All I could manage was 20 yards also. I asked the owner how much it weighed and he said he didn’t know, because another member brought it in, but he figures it’s easily over 200 lbs. I think I might try picking it from a high height, and progressively lower the pick height over the weeks.
Didn’t like the med ball picks, I think I would benefit from heavy straight-leg deadlifts or zercher good mornings more.
Those last 20 or so reps of curls were suuuuuper cheaty. But damn, we’re my arms ever pumped.
Headache during the AMRAP, as usual. Kinda brought it on myself though, as I felt it lingering at rep 7, but I wanted 8, and sure enough it hit hard when I pushed for the 8th rep. Oh well.
Decided to swap DB rows into this day too. That way I have some kind of dedicated back work on all training days, as I’m finding my back is lacking during heavy picks.
Overall, since swapping to the SSB and putting progressively heavier prowler sprints at the end of the session, this is quickly becoming my favourite training day.
1 minute between sets of log press and clean & carry. Tried supersetting some carry work as @T3hPwnisher suggested; I really enjoyed this combo, and pressing a log felt way better than pressing a bar, plus I think the log cleans will really help with the pick of a carry. Absolutely no idea what the log weighs, so I took a wild guess at around 70 pounds. It’s a smaller log, and the gym owner doesn’t know what it weighs, just that it comes from Gorilla Fitness.
Grip is definitely a limiting factor for me right now, so I’m gonna dedicate some time for grip work from now on. The plate pinches were HARD; they were big fat bumped plates, probably close to 3” thick.
Didn’t up my training max for this next cycle because I wanted to see if I could beat my previous rep maxes, which I did, by one rep. Had more in me but I try to cut it before the headache gets too bad.
Gonna swap the barbell row for weighted chins from now on. Too much on the low back after busting my ass on deadlifts.