That is a lot of deadlifting!
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You could have just set a rep challenge there. 4 plates for a100 reps in what time?
watched the first hour of this yesterday, will try and finish it later in the week. I really liked the part where Jon talks about cardo and doing things you dont like. The comment around being able to do something today vs doing is for 3000 days was perfect. If only people new to this stuff could appreciate this they would be so much better off in the long run.
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@ChongLordUno Definitely sounds like a gut check. Always good to have those.
@cyclonengineer I chose a different 4 letter word when it was doneā¦haha.
@atlas13 Thanks dude! And glad it got a laugh. Definitely riding the testosterone high.
@rroo Strongman comp. Events are viking press, car deadlift, axle squat and hussfel stone carry. All reps on the static events: no stupid maxing. Iāve never done a viking press either, so I can cross it off the strongman bucket list. No events I dislike, which is rare these days.
@raven78 Thanks dude. Iām eating pretty much like how I detailed here
Still keeping it clean, which has been a big victory for me.
@boilerman Thatās the kinda drive Iām excited about, haha. This program is SO good about getting you to eat right, because you BARELY survive the workout and think āf**k, I gotta do MORE next time? I need to EATā
@boyce79 Man, at this point, I go āfirst marathonā approach: just finish, haha.
@simo74 Heās honestly just a super fascinating dude. Heās easy to overlook because of all the bro science, but I think that speaks to just how important the mental game is here. Dude is just sheer willpower and brute force. Discovering him was just āfreeingā for me: I found someone going about it EXACTLY like I was, and they had āarrivedā.
PM WORKOUT (1600)
Buffalo Bar squat 295-chins-dips
10
5
15
Time: 5:38
Tang Soo Do class (1900)
Just learned the new form and some strikes and blocks. Having some ideological differences regarding stances and guard, but Iām here to learn. New belt looks nice on me.
PM WORKOUT II (2100)
100 kb swings w/40kg bell
Time: 2:30
Notes: That squat WOD is legit. I was huffing bad when it was over. TSD class was very easy, which is what I needed after that deadlift workout. Got in the swings just to get the hear rate up before work started.
I went through my log and found out Iām actually moving much more weight this round of Deep Water than last time. I was deadlifting 368lbs (playing around with pounds and kilos) and push pressing 155. Squats were like 290 something. Iād been beating myself up thinking that I was moving less this go round, since I dropped so much bodyweight, but it appears Iāve still grown significantly stronger. Iām āfeelingā fatter just from always having a full gut, but still got the markers of a smaller waist size and the belt hole on my power belt. That said, Iām still looking to cut calories at the end of DW intermediate, just becaues my body needs a break. Itāll be 6 months of eating to gain at that point, and Iāve kept it clean the whole time, which presents its own challenges. Iām thinking just a 6 week re-adjustment and evaluate from there. Iāve been talking DoggCrapp, and that might still happen, but I may also get back to SVR II, as thatās served me well a ton of times. Either way, gotta get through these next 5 weeks first.
I AM thinking of doing a legit cheat meal before my next deadlift workout, just because this one completely annihilated me. Had the ādeadlift hangoverā afterwards, zombied my way around the house for an hour before settling in for my nap before my night shift. I think a carb bump would go far.
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DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 2, Workout 2
AM WORKOUT (0700) Post night shift
25 chins
Axle clean and strict press away
10x10x156 w/3:50 rests
Immediately post final set
50 dips
25 pushdowns
10 band pull aparts between odd sets/5 chins between even sets
Lateral raise dropset
23x20lbs
22x10
22x5
22x2.5
22xEmpty hands
SUPERSET: hyper-abs (no rest between all sets)
Reverse hyper 250
3x20
Standing ab wheel
3x7
Poundstone curls
162xAxle
Notes: Absolutely clutch press workout. The 9th set was a grinder, but I got it all back together for the 10th. Focusing on making the clean really pop gets me set up strong for pressing. Just feeling strong. Gonna mow the lawn and hit up the Grace echo WOD at some point today in my quest to stay up all day, then an early shift tomorrow morning. Still torn on if Iām gonna do barbell cleans, hit the log for shorter rest times, use the axle, or totally wildcard it, but Iāll come up with something.
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This is impressive, and makes me feel sick reading it. 10x10x355 is destroying me right now.
Amazing work in here, as always.
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I would say āunrealā work, but you train and eat so hard that shit like this is just your new normal.
I love it man, nothing cooler than seeing what the human mind/body/spirit can achieve in the face of logic/doubt/science or what have you.
Get em Juggernaught
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@littlesleeper Thanks man. I still feel sick from doing it, haha.
@kleinhound Means a lot from you dude! Thanks!
REST OF DAY
Mowing/edging lawn for 90 minutes
Axle Grace Echo
30 reps in 2:54
15 in 1:48
7 in :38
Family 5k
Notes: Pretty much havenāt stopped moving today, which is good given I need to stay up. First sub-3 in Grace in a while. Kept hitting the garage door motor but still managed to overcome. Family run was unscheduled but good extra activity.
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DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 2, Workout 3
AM WORKOUT (0310 Wake up via alarm)
Power cleans
10x10x155 w/3:45 rest
Sets of 10 pull aparts between even sets, sets of 10 dips between odd sets
Chins (various grips)
3xFailure
Clean pulls 225
1x10
Notes: Ran this out of order as I had no idea how long it was going to take and I was training before work. Cleans were the priority, so I got them done, then did what I could from there. Will finish up some later. For being done first thing in the morning after 6 hours of sleep after 36 hours awake, a few of those cleans actually had some decent pop. I was pulling off my crash mats, which cut away noise and honestly put me in a better starting position. Iām just plain not built for weightlifting with my monkey arms and stump of a torso (fantastic deadlifter though), so elevating the starting height makes things a bit more āfairā. Rack position is, of course, garbage. Lot of āPaul Anderson cleansā in there, but occasionally things would come together. If nothing else, 100 bad form cleans are a fantastic metabolic workout.
Iām surprisingly unsore from the deadlifts. However, something interesting Iāve noticed this go round is that I get torso soreness, sorta around the serratus. Itās a bit like body aches, sorta like the flu. I have a feeling my body is just finding new ways to manifest fatigue as I continue to find new ways to push it.
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PM WORKOUT (1500)
Clean pulls 225
2x10
Axle shrugs against light bands
1x102
Kroc rows 115
1x17
Bodyweight reverse hyper
1x40
CONDITIONING
135lb thrusters/40kg KB swing
12
6
3
1 Time: 4:28
20 standing ab wheel
50 KB swings
Notes: Just a hodgepodge of stuff to finish out the back day and get in conditioning. Speaking of, that thruster/swing thing is nuts. I was absolutely nuked inside of 4:30. Might drop the weight on the thruster a touch next time to get in some more reps, but definitely some magic there.
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AM WORKOUT (0600 wake up via dog) FASTED
Notes: Did 16 total rounds, using a 40kg bell, and on the 16th round I swung the KB for 50 reps. Nice start to the day.
On that note, yesterday was an unscheduled off day. We lost power from a storm and had some pretty significant damage. We were told by the power company itād be several days without power, and with a freezer full of piedmontese beef that was a no sale, so we got a generator. And since 200k of us lost power, generators were sold out everywhere, so we drove to the next city to get one. And since Iām me, I attempted to load it into my truck by myself like it was an atlas stone, until some jackass swooped out of the blue and āhelpedā me.
Ever notice how when people ask ādo you need a hand?ā, they donāt accept the answer of ānoā before they just insert themselves?
I still managed to start that day off with 150kb swings with the 40 and all my daily work. Nutrition went out the window. Waking up without power, we tried going out to eat, and discovered everyone else had the same idea, so we ended up at a Wendyās that was drivethrough only, I ordered a maple bacon chicken breakfast sandwich, assuming it a chicken sandwich with maple baconā¦only to discover it was a chicken and bacon sandwich covered in maple syrup. Tossed it and had a quest bar for breakfastā¦and then fasted until 1500 because the day just got crazier and crazier.
I am a bit proud of how nutrition went from there. Came home with the generator but needed nutrition before I continued, and instead of caving and having some ācardboard carbsā (thanks Dan John), I opened up a can of chicken and tossed it in a mixing bowl with half an avocado, 2 giant spoonfulls of sunbutter, 6 macadamia nuts, some hot sauce and some salt. It was honestly really palatable, but also just a ton of concentrated energy. I really just have no craving for junk these days.
Power is back, so back to the grind.
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Man, with your improv cooking skills all you need is a few twigs for heat and a flat rock. And some simple ingredients, of course.
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@SkyzykS Thanks man. I really seem to thrive with limitations. Tell me I have unlimited freedom and I flounder: tell me all I have is a trap bar and a keg and Iāll come up with the newest crazy in hypertrophy, haha.
PM WORKOUT (1500)
Axle bench press 251
3x10
Close grip axle bench 216
2x10
1x8
(3) Incline DB bench 95s
3x10 w/dips to failure after last set
Dips
2xF with push ups to failure after last set
Push ups
2xF with push ups to failure using reactive slingshot and then catapult on last set
CONDITIONING
Tabata 40kg KB swings and burpees (swings on odd rounds/burpees on even)
Notes: 3:20 rests between sets of bench, 2:00 between sets of bodyweight work. My right shoulder has been bugging me today: wondering if I torqued it doing some fence reconstruction/generator moving. Still strong enough for the workout: Just bugging it on other stuff. Pleased with the DB benching and the flat bench, although setting up for this workout I realized how much I just donāt give a f**k about benching any more. Been doing it since I started lifting weights, and it just doesnāt excite me at all. And I realize I hate all of my training, but thereās at least some of it that I fear enough that overcoming it is worthwhile, but this really feels like going through the motions. Change may be on the horizon.
That conditioning workout was awesome. Gonna remember it.
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I truly love this sentiment. It is so hard for people who donāt train to understand but makes so much sense to a small number of like minded people.
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Yup. Jim Wendler had a great quote about beginner vs advanced lifters. He said, "You ask a beginner what their favorite lift is and they say āDeadlift: I can move so much weight and it just feels so primalā. You ask an advanced guy and they say āF**k I donāt know: I hate all of themā
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I always like it when people ask me about going to the gym and they say āI donāt know how you can do it, lifting weights is so boring for meā. I honestly donāt know if they think that for me it is super exciting and interesting or if I am supposed to give them a special secret to make in exciting and enjoyable. My usual answer is āyer same for meā
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Thatās a fantastic answer. I do something similar. Same thing in the rare instances someone trains with me.
āI feel really uncomfortable/in pain right now.ā
āI know right?! This sucks and I hate it. Time for the next setā
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This is a good response
This is next level. I would love to see the look on their face you speak those last 5 words.
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Same for soreness, people just assume that I donāt get sore any moreā¦but the secret is just being sore all the time so whatās a little more?
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Standing up on a heavy Squat or deadlift is awesome. Holding that bar over your head on a heavy Press makes you feel like a champion. Finishing a heavy Bench is fine, I guess.
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