Crunches:
70 straight, back fatigued at that point.
Did not do pull downs with bands, forgot.
Good amount of volume. Ran through this workout quickly. Accomplished what I needed to hopefully. I finally got 100s x20 each. Moving on to 110s or 115s, not sure which yet. I’ll work up to 20 on these until I get to sometimes crazy, then probably drop the weight and work up to 30-40 reps with a lighter weight.
I found that exercise on a diesel crew torso training video.
Basically, get a band and secure it to something at shoulder height. Pull the band and hold it onfront of you with your arms extended. This puts tremendous strain on your core.
Not much to report. Tired from not eating as much as I should have today. 180x3 should have been super easy, but I’ll just chalk it up to being tired. Farmers were not hard. Everything was just a usual day in the gym.
Stopped here. Just didn’t eat properly and felt aweful, plus the arching made my back feel not so good. I think cambered bar squats wouldn’t have ended well anyways.
Back felt awful b/c of the rain here. 180 kg felt super heavy and shouldn’t have. 225 was the most solid lift of the day. I will try to at least get 518+ next week and call it a success for the cycle if I do.
I know now that I can cut well below 181 if I need to. I might cut as much weigh as possible w/o losing strength and just fill out 181 solidly, then after a period of time, move back up to 198 clean and fill out that weight class.
Skipped Day 1 upper body and day 2. Just felt out of it this week.
Decided to do Day 3 of Week 3 tonight, just the bench portion since I’m maxing on Saturday.
WEEK 3: Day 3
Bench:
20x20 (44 lbs)
50x10 (110 lbs)
75x5 (165 lbs) pauses start here
90x4 (198 lbs)
105x2 (231 lbs)
115x1 (253 lbs) PR for no arch bench, had a lot more in me
127.5x3x5 (281 lbs) arched, belt for support
Good session. I honestly didn’t think I’d knock out this sort of weight tonight. I’m hoping 300+ for maxing next week. Nothing else, just burnt out from this week’s weather.
I plan on doing the meet Wade Hooper is hosting on April 24th in Marksville, LA.
Is anyone else going?
I have two goals set for the meet, well 3, although only 2 are related to powerlifting.
Make 181
Squat 600lbs
Lean out to a 6 pack again.
I was 180.7 lbs due to eating better, then getting a 48 hour stomach flu. That’s one goal down, at least I know I can cut down quickly if need be. I believe I have 80 lbs or less to get to 600 lbs. I think the 6 pack will follow as long as I keep my diet clean. Bench & Deadlift are still in the air.
With meat on a diet too, the hard hitters on this forum are just wasting away, pretty soon dankid and type2b are going to be the biggest and strongest.
Yeah, I am 6’2", 255, but to put it in perspective I was fairly thin and had no muscle when I was 195, at this point I am starting to realize 300+ is going to be in my not so distant future.
Squat:
20x20 (44 lbs) add briefs
85x5 (187 lbs)
130x5 (286 lbs)
160x4 (352 lbs)
185x2 (407 lbs) high, just felt off
210x3x4 (462 lbs) add belt & wraps
Had some depth issues. My head was pounding me from the weather front that moved through and I cut it short. I would much rather have a stronger start to the cycle, but this happens and its not worth fighting it.
I hate cold weather. Its crap, period. Bring back 90F days.