Did nothing besides pull-ups the last two days because I felt tired from hardly sleeping. Slept a decent amount today but couldn’t do my usual thing due to work, so I decided to do weighted burpees. I did 10x10 emom with ~20lb of water in my backpack. This began to really kick my ass on the last two sets, but honestly the real painful part began when the water bottles bunched up and began smacking the back of my head and neck every time I dropped to the floor.
Anyways, pretty pleased that this didn’t feel all that hard till the last two set. Each set took about as long as burpees would have taken if I went at a relaxed pace a couple of weeks ago (~20 seconds of time remaining) and I wasn’t trying to push the pace today, so I’m pretty sure strength and conditioning improved.
Got the barbell and weights from my parents house to my house, so I can do some lifting in the comforts of my own home now. I really dislike spending time working out right now and and hope that I can find a way to do the bare minimum. I plan on alternating between the below and the bodyweight workout I’ve been doing-
EMOM 10x3 OHP
EMOM 10x3 front squat
2x12ish BB row
Single set of RDL, 25+ rep minimum.
Burpees for conditioning.
This shouldn’t take anymore than 35-40 minutes to complete.
Used 65lb on the OHP, 95lb on the front squat, 65lb on the row, and just the bar for the RDL today to gauge current fitness. They all felt pretty much effortless, which is good! I did bruise the end of the collarbone that sits under your neck. I’m not really surprised by this. That part has been bruising whenever I overdo the power clean/my catch position is not great. I’ll probably see if I can snatch the bar up instead of power cleaning it.
Burpee emom sets got better. Did 7x14+2 I think like two weeks ago. Felt tough but doable. Did 12x12 a couple of days ago and that felt easy. I spent some time doing weighted pull-ups that I think ended up being counterproductive. I’m back to doing unweighted pull-ups and doing each rep as a true deadhang.
I’m going to try to buy a squat stand sometime in March. I want to buy one from Rogue Fitness but honestly they’re pretty freaking expensive. At the same time, buying cheap squat stands seem like a very poor idea because I am convinced that they cannot hold even 2/3 of the weight they claim to be designed for.
OHP-95lb, 10x3 EMOM
Front squat- 135lb, 10x3 EMOM
RDL- 135lb, 2x13
BB row- 95lb, 2x13
10x10 EMOM burpees. Set 1-6 as good old jumping burpees. Set 7-9 as those one-pump burpees because I got tired, then set 10 as jumping burpees.
Press felt easy. Power cleaning 135lb felt really weak. Somehow generated enough power to hardly dip even though they felt so off. Front squatting 135lb without warm-up also appears to be a poor idea for now.
I finally figured out why the jumping burpees are hard. You get into a fast pace if you build up a rhythm and that pace is likely faster than you can sustain.
OHP- 115lb, 10x4 EMOM
Push-pressed the last two sets.
Front squat- 135lb, 10x5 EMOM
BB row- 95lb, 3x10
10x10 EMOM burpees.
Power cleans keep feeling better. The OHP felt tough but good. Frankly I’m pleased that I could do this since my 115lb max rep never went past 10 reps, and I am a good 10lb+ lighter now than when I was doing that. Front squats felt fine, though I did get tired near the end.
Sometime in the morning- 10 sets EMOM of
x4 pull-up (various grip)
x5 push-up
This is an attempt to fit in some easy bodyweight work. Felt easy.
OHP- 115lb, 6x4, 95lb, 4x4 EMOM
Front squat- 135lb, 10x5 EMOM
BB row- 95lb, 3x15 (no pauses at top)
10x10 EMOM burpees
This felt hard. I should have listened to my body- felt quite unnaturally sleepy yesterday and I had to get up real early for a meeting today, so didn’t get much sleep. I think I didn’t recover enough from the previous session.
Sometime in the morning- 10 sets EMOM of
x4 pull-up (various grip)
x5 push-up
Doing this daily for now and I’m hoping that I can keep it up. We’ll see; may have to eat more.
OHP- 95lb, 10x4 EMOM
Power into front squat- 135lb, 10x2 EMOM
BB row- 95lb, 2x15 (3 second pause at top)
7x14 EMOM burpee+2
I’m suddenly getting HORRIBLE allergies today. It’s very annoying.
OHP felt strong.
I thought I wanted to do 10x6 on the front squat until I failed to do unbroken reps on the 9th set. Then I decided that staying around 50 reps would be a good idea.
I haven’t been walking at all recently. I decided to fix that issue starting today.
OHP- 95lb, 5x5, 5x6 EMOM
Back squat- 45lb, 1x30
Walking lunges- 45lb, 1x12
BB row- 95lb, 1x15, 1x10 (3 second pause at top)
50 push-ups (done in sets of 36 and 14)
2 mile(ish) walk.
Lots of my body is sore right now and I’m feeling annoyed by that. Leg soreness is the most annoying of them all so fuck training legs.
Press felt strong until the end, when I no longer have the power to drive the bar up. Did push-ups instead of burpees because my legs feel sore; triceps tired out first.
Chin-ups are causing odd strain/pain in my left arm and that’s annoying too.
OHP- 135lb, 10x1 EMOM
Power cleans didn’t have much strength in them today. Push-pressed the last rep.
Back squat- 45lb, 1x50
BB row- 45lb, 1x33, 1x17
10x10 EMOM push-ups
2 mile(ish) jog.
Abandoned the EMOM pull-ups. I suspect they’re the cause of this strain because said strain disappeared immediately after I stopped doing this. Back to just doing 10 pull-ups every now and then.
I did some push-ups and lunges in between work in an attempt to move my body more. No real plan with anything right now. I’ll just not do something if it causes pain or annoyance.
I breathed in through my nose and out my mouth the entire time for the jog and it felt easy except for the blisters and side-stitches that came at the start. Ran at what I guesstimate is an 11 min/mile pace, which is ok for not having run for close to a year. I guess burpees kept me in ok shape after all.
OHP- 95lbx5, then did a drop set. I don’t remember the exact reps I hit beyond the first set. I think it went something like this-
115lbx7; attempted an 8th rep and failed.
95lbx9(?)
65lbx15(?)
45lbx8(?)
I am pretty sure the 115lb is a weight PR. I went to my parent’s home this past weekend and got a chance to weigh myself and confirmed what I suspected- I lost weight and am now ~171lb. About 2-3lbish drop.
Back squat- 45lb, 1x75. This feels hard on the core; I have a hard time keeping upright.
BB row- 115lb, 3x8 (3 second pause at top)
10x8, 2x10 EMOM jumping burpees. These felt really tiring in the end.
Power clean and press- 95lb, 10x3 EMOM
The power cleans feel like garbage technique-wise but physically feels really easy. The presses felt tired; probably because of all the stuff I did yesterday that heavily involved my shoulders.
Back squat- 45lb, 1x75
This does not get any easier.
BB row- 45lb, 1x50, 1x10
push-ups- 1x41, 1x13 I think?
Triceps and shoulders felt tired.
3 mile(ish) jog.
Still at what is roughly timed as a 11 min mile/pace.
Just noted to note how much I hate walking lunges. I’ve been doing them daily before lunch. I’m not even walking that far right now; I’m just doing 22 reps with the intent of adding one more every week.
I initially set out thinking I’d like to do 10x2 OHP but I realized that was unrealistic, so I switched over to push-press starting from the fifth set. Power cleans felt really powerful today once I got over my initial idiocy of cutting the pull too short.
Back squat- 45lb, 1x90, 1x10
I didn’t know whether I wanted to actually do 100 reps today and stopped at 90 because… I don’t actually know why. Regained my breath, felt that it’s really dumb to stop at 90, and then did 10 more.
Daylight saving really messed up my sleep. I was doing a whole lot better with going to bed earlier. Regularly going to be bed around 11-12, no problem falling asleep, waking up nice and “early” and feeling ready to start the day…
And now I swear I spend at least 1-2 hours just lying there waiting to fall asleep or waking up in the middle of the night and just lying there in some half asleep state. I’m also dreaming a whole lot more too, which I honestly do not like. My dreams are weird and I don’t like them.
I also don’t feel rested when I wake up and regularly sleep in even though I’m supposedly getting at least 7 hours of sleep. This sucks.
Just ranting because it’s past my bedtime but I fear it’ll be a repeat of the same thing.