MarkKO's Training Log

This doesn’t really sound right to me. What makes it so bad, the fact that you worked up to 90%-ish on all 3 lifts? Volume is real low right now too.

To me it seems like when you are peaking is the time that you definitely don’t want to feel beat up. I remember Sheiko saying something like “it is better to go into a meet undertrained rather than overtrained”, like you should feel good and well recovered.

Not Mark but as I interpret it he makes his heavy singles prior to the meet very fatigued wich is when you need to deload, then very little work two weeks out no work and feeling very fresh on the week leading up to the meet.

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We go into peak fatigued, and deliberately push ourselves into an overreaching state. Then he week before the meet we rest, so on meet day we feel pretty much invincible.

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Woke at 267.4 lbs, looking similar to yesterday

@mortdk you get it

As long as it’s working for you it cant be that bad. I would say more but I don’t want to mess with your head before the meet.

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Todays training

30 seconds each side of
Couch stretch
Pigeon stretch
Supine twist
Hurdler stretch

10 bracing hip thrusts

Squat
Worked up to 3x1x474 lbs, Phantoms at six revolutions

Something tweaked a bit in my left groin on 275 lbs, but I calmed down as I went on. Just something to do with a tight hamstring I wasn’t aware of, I think

One hour.

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Woke at 269.4 lbs, looking similar to yesterday, maybe a little more bloated but not much.

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Only got you by 20lbs now, love to see it.

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I’ve had this exact thought so often. About Mark specifically but also Pwn/flip’s comps and many others. It’s definitely one of the loveliest aspects of the internet, which can so often be awful.

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You ever do that Copenhagen adduction thing? I used to have issues with my adductors and I started doing a bit of that before squatting and deadlifting, seems to have taken care of it. I just do one set of 10 reps on each side using a chair nowadays.

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I’m going to Google this, because I have an imagine involving chewing tobacco and stretching

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Ask the gym owner if you can put a spittoon next to the monolift

It’s tempting

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Extra workout

Two rounds of 25 each of
Pull aparts
Air squats

I’m reducing the extra workouts to the absolute bare minimum this week in line with the peak tapering off. Next week bar some air squats to stay loose and maybe a few pull aparts to keep my shoulders loose I won’t do anything.

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Getting close now mark and as @mortdk said, I am getting excited :laughing:

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Me too.

Work is also reasonably quiet at the moment so I shouldn’t have to do much overtime. That could change next week, of course, but it seems like we’re keeping well on top of things right now.

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When is the meet?

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Woke at 267.4 lbs, looking somewhat more bloated

@chris_ottawa February 23rd

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Thank you for this, I was always curious how much you ate. You gave me the general diet plan a while back but no Cal’s.

DEXA is the next step :grin:

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Todays training

T-spine roll

30 seconds each side of
Long head bicep stretch
Pec minor stretch
Thread the needle

2x15xbar bench supersetted with 20 each of facepulls and pull aparts

Bench press
Worked up to 4x1x264 lbs

50 minutes

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