Well, September and October were an “interesting” couple of months.
September went pretty well. Kept on 5/3/1 with my reduced working weights on press. I Felt like I was making some good progress. BJJ was hit or miss due to work travel, but my main training partner was tapped to test for his purple belt in November, so he and i started working on his test.
Our Purple belt test is basically “Blue Belt Plus”. There’s lots of carry over from our blue belt test, with more self defense techniques. For the ground portion there’s additional techniques at each position, plus 4 “your choice”. This is where you start to show your game and how you’re developing beyond the material shown in classes.
October was a complete shit show.
Early in the month my wife’s new horse had a medical issue. Long story, but he ended up having emergency surgery, a stay at the hospital, then 2 weeks in horsey rehab, all about 2 hours from our place. If anyone is REALLY interested I can give more details.
He required a pretty detailed care regime once he got released from rehab and we decided he couldn’t stay at the boarding facility we had him at. We had horse on our property for years, so we decided to rehab the barn and move both horses back home. This involved releveling stalls, tearing out the old stall mats, putting new ones in, checking fences, ect, ect. Finally got the boys back home two weeks ago.
BJJ was pretty nonexistent except for some afterhours/early morning drilling sessions with my main training partner.
Pretty much all my energy in October went to work, work travel, and horse stuff.
On top of all this my wife learned that her contract is not being renewed and she’s going to be out of a job Jan 1. They may extend her contract a month or two after that if they haven’t found a full time replacement, but that’s still up in the air.
The above situation is what lead to my post about 5/3/1 once a week a couple of weeks ago. We’re going to have to tighten our belts for a little while.
After a little more research I think i’ve found a path to continue on 5/3/1. I’m going to go with the plan laid out by @navid123 in the post below
Week1
Press and deadlift 531
front squat/ push press
Rows
biceps
abs
abs
rehab prehab
Week 2
Squat and bench 531
snatch grip dead/ Close grip bench
abs
abs
row
Biceps
rehab/prehab
this will be my Sunday early AM gym session
During the week i’m going to go with the Coates Dumbell only plan since i can do that at home or at a hotel gym if i’m on travel. I also have bands, a sand bag, pullup bar, ect at home i can add some variety with if i need to.
BJJ won’t change and I’m going to start visiting gyms at my various work locations again. My coach put a stop to that back in the C-19 days, but he’s good with it now.
I was thinking about starting a new log based on this, but i’m just going to keep this one rolling. I’ve edited the title for fun and i’ll change it back once i get back to the gym when things get beter. I’ll start posting more regularly again after my first workout this week.
La’