That started awful, but you saved it with curls
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The curls hurt the most though 
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The things we most love can hurt us the worst.
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2 days after deadlift and my back doms is real. Rhomboids and lower lats are the worst areas. At least this shows I am locking my brace in well on those axle pulls. I still have a little quad and glute doms left after squatting on Monday ! Already not looking forward to front squat tonight. Good job it is followed by bench press, it is kinda like eating your greens before your meat.
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Friday 16 June - week 3
Front squat
Work up to hard triple - RPE 8/9
Drop back for 2 more sets of 3
Bar x 10
60 x 5
80 x 3 - felt better
100 x 3
110 x 2. (242 lbs). - PR
This was hard but wanted more that a single and made sure.
90 x 3
90 x 3
Narrower hand placement = more shelf. To stop the bar sitting on my collar bone I have discovered I can push it back into my wind pipe. That is more comfortable !! LOL
Bench
Bar x 10
60 x 5
80 x 3
105 x 4 x 3 sets (231 lbs) - RPE 8, 9, 9, 10
Getting heavy now, pauses are very quick. Still moved ok.
Pull ups - thick bar
10 x 3 sets
10, 10, 9.5 reps
Dumbell preacher curl
17.5 x 10 x 2 sets
Dropped to 10kg for better reps
10 x 15
Good session. PR on front squat, bench was solid if not a little slow and the rest was bodybuilding. Middle of my back is so sore.
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Congrats
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Great work mate.
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Top set of front squat from tonight. I did the banded hip glute activation moves before squatting and done tricep and lat stretches. I didnāt have any pain in my quad when squatting to that is good.
I had a slightly narrower hand position for front squat and it helped me create a better shelf for the bar to sit on.
You will see on the second rep that my elbows dropped and I lost tightness in my upper back. This made it harder than it needed to be.
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Strongman Saturday conditioning was curtesy of @T3hPwnisher and @SvenG .
Pwn for his original idea for the Tower of Babel workout and Sven for mixing up the tower with different movements.
For some reason I had in my head that I should do this workout with burpees but with my toe still sore it wasnāt an option. Seeing Sven doing it with other movements changed that paradigm I had created.
So today was squats with 80KG sandbag and in between I did farmers walks with kettlebells.
This definitely did the job, topped out at 7 reps and then went back down. Whole body was sore by the end, arms, traps, lats, legs.
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Todays suffering.
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Today was a very proud day for me. My eldest daughter (13) completed her black belt grading. She has been doing karate since she was 5 years old and today was a recognition and celebration of her hard work, consistency and dedication. Her grading was 6 hours long, 3 hours on Friday night and 3 hours today. It included basics, sparring, grappling, all of the Kata done one after the other, a lot of endurance work and a 2 minute demonstration that she did with three other children that they had to create and learn for themselves.
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Thatās awesome! Congratulations to her.
Sheās got a great role model for that, you know.
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Congrats on the FS PR and congrats to your daughter!
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Monday 19 June - week 4
Squat
Bar x 10
60 x 5
80 x 3
Sleeves
100 x 3
120 x 2
Belt on
140 x 1
145 x 4 x 3 sets (319 lbs) - RPE 8, 8, 10
Dropped the weight here. Right leg in a bit of pain.
100 x 5 x 2 sets - did these fast up and down no pausing, pump style.
Must have slept funny before my right hip, quad and knee have been in pain all day. Keep getting sharp paints like a shock running down the outside of my leg. I am guessing it is a sciatica issue. Pissed that I have to call the squat after three sets but I was loading my left leg so much I was worried I would injure that side.
Bulgarians - back foot over roller pad on the rack
80 x 8 x 3 sets (40kg Dumbell each hand)
I dropped the Bulgarians today because of my leg issue.
Did some lying leg curls instead. 3 sets
Dumbell bench
42.5 x 8 x 4 sets
SS
Dumbell row
42.5 x 8 x 4 sets
Very good tonight. 8ās every set.
Dumbell curl
10kg x 3 sets - 20, 15
Pause and squeeze at full contraction every rep. Big big pump and burn.
I knew this would be really tough before I got to the gym. Even driving today was painful so was expecting squats to be messy. The three sets I did with 145 were all good depth and solid reps but I could feel myself shifting into my left leg so decided to be sensible and love to fight another day.
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Sorry about this, man. That is painful. Just FYI, I had a bout of this a year ago. My wife found a tutorial online somewhere about how to use a theragun to help with sciatica. She did the thing to my back and it really helped. The thereagun has never done anything else for me, but I think it really did help with the sciatica.
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Thanks for the idea mate. I have a massage booked for tomorrow which no doubt will include some dry needling. Hoping that will help a bit
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Monday night squat ( notice that wobbly right knee - left of the screen)
Dumbell bench looking good
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Get a new one.
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New knee ??
Just get a new body, F it. 
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