This seems to be a theme. We benefit from them yet they are low on our list of exercises we consistently do.
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A little strongman Saturday conditioning today
80kg (176lbs) sandbag
Pick and carry 30m (15 turn 15)
Going every second minute, 10 rounds.
This was hard hard work.
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Sandbag is fun …. Not
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Took my son and middle daughter to one of the local bike parks. There is a small pump track and a bunch of trails of varying difficulty. They got some exercise and fresh air and I got some sun on my back and some peace and quiet. Wins all round.
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Nice work Simo, cant wait till my kid is old enough for that sort of activity together.
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48 hours?
So not very sore then?
Haha
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Monday 1st May - week 3
Squat
Bar x 10
60 x 5
80 x 3
Sleeves on cause I am old
100 x 3 felt easy as they should
120 x 2
Added a belt for practice
135 x 4 x 4 sets (297 lbs) - RPE 7, 7, 7, 8
Felt solid but proper hard work. Bar went forward a little on the last rep which made it feel harder. Otherwise happy.
Bulgarians
50 x 8 x 3 sets (25kg Dumbell each hand)
These are starting to feel like torture. Leg pump is next level. And lungs feel like they will burst.
Had to take a bit of a rest here because I thought I was going to hurl.
Db bench
40 x 8 x 4 sets (only managed 7 reps on the last set)
Superset with
Dumbell row (single arm) knee on a bench
40 x 8 x 4 sets
First set of presses felt really good. But puffing like an old steam train after the rows. Super setting the bench with single arm rows makes it a long long set. Having to swallow down a whole lot of bile burps throughout these sets
No PRs but it was a bloody good session. Starting to feel stronger again.
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Awesome!
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Squats looked like this- set 1 and 2
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And even more awesome after seeing it in the video—love that work, @simo74!
(The caption was quality, too.)
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@wiseman83 will tell you that I grossly overstate my RPE. 7 really means 3 or 4. But if I tell him that he makes the weights go up. 
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Stop watching me, nothing to see here
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Leg doms is pretty full on again. Upping the protein from today. If I am being honest I have been neglecting my diet a little lately. Time to at least make sure the protein levels are on point.
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Wednesday 3rd May - week 3
Axle Deadlift
Bar x 10
70 x 5 - doh
110 x 3 -doh just managed third rep before grip went
Mixed grip from here in
140 x 3
150 x 6 x 4 sets (330 lbs) - RPE 7, 7, 5, 6
Kept the belt off for these. Glutes were very tight and sore again. Hard but not horrible. Third set was good, body had warmed up a little by then.
Axle OH press (clean first rep)
62.5 x 5 x 2 sets
62.5 x (138 lbs) - 10 reps no leg drive, this is a rep PR for this movement, but that’s because it’s new to me. LOL. No seriously happy with 10s
Feels good to pick something up and put it over my head.
Pull downs -
65 x 12 x 3 sets -
Super set with
Dips
15 x 3 sets - (13 reps on last set)
Nice stretch and pump on the pull downs. Dips were getting hard, solid burn in my chest. This is a really solid accessory combination.
And that is wrap. Very nice session again. Pulls felt really solid despite lots of pain in the rear end. Would love to see how they go when I am fresh. Loving the axle for overhead, mostly because I think it makes me look tough
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Don’t know what’s better—this statement:
or that dinner pic!
Good stuff all around, mate—keep it up!
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It’s a tough choice but I can say after eating it, the dinner was grouse. (That’s Aussie for Fkn great)
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just realised that my training plan had 4 sets here not 3… Ooops. Luckily the plan was 4 sets of 5 and, I did 2 of 5 and 1 of 10, so reps is still the same. I really need to read my plan better before going to the gym.
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Ok so it was finally time for me to stop being a wuss and get back on the burpees. Shout out to @ChongLordUno for brain washing we with his countless burpee posts, to @T3hPwnisher for never stopping the chaos, for @SvenG for reminding me what consistent hard work looks like and for @Deadliftnstill for reminding me that there really aren’t any decent excuses to not do burpees.
In truth I have been doing a lot less conditioning work since my elbow issue at the end of last year. And whilst my gym training and strongman stuff remained consistent, I haven’t been applying myself at the same level as before and in some way that was just me listening to and making up excuses. I allowed some other personal issues to impact my mindset and that that was a mistake.
Tonight session was a simple 100 x 1 pump burpees. Not fast, just worked through the reps. They were as hard as I expected but I am glad to have got them done.
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