[quote]wozniak1995 wrote:
Very nice pressing! have you always found that to be your strong point?[/quote]
Yeah. My pressing at this point might aswell not even be trained. I’m thinking about replacing the day with something else. Not sure what, but my pressing is way too strong. I know that seems silly, but with my recent PR’s on various kinds of presses, I feel it need not be focused on so much. Kind of scary. I feel like Spoto or Mendy; an upside pyramid.
Hey guys, or to whomever follows this log, I’m looking to change up my training a bit. I’m wanting to squat twice a week one heavy and one light day, and deadlift heavy once every two weeks. My current regime is kind of tough and not really pliable or well thought out but here is what I’m working with:
Day 1 Mon: OHP/assistance
Day 2 Tuesday: Front Squats/legs
Day 3 Thursday: Events
Day 4 Sat: Deadlifts/Events
I’m really unsure about how I should change things and how I should implement this new stuff into that.
Anybody have any tangible ideas?
Set yourself a long term goal of 200kg strict overhead 
Do more squats after deadlifts on Saturday. You may have to cut out events that day if you don’t have enough time or energy, but one day for events is probably enough don’t you think?
Thanks for the hasty response lol. I don’t know what to do honestly. I deadlift on event day because I have a deadlift medley in competition, and it’s split from the first event day because I just don’t see how I can deadlift after doing heavy yoke, pressing and sled shit. I could always remove the deadlift portion from my event training and just have a normal deadlift day like I once did.
Would it be right to swap around the event order? I mean I would be just fine if I deadlift first, then do yoke etc. but I just can’t seem to be okay with the fact that I’m mixing shit around. This shit is no fun!
5/16/13
Barbell Complex (keep me active in my off time): Consists of 7 cleans, 7 OHP, 7 front squat, and 7 bent over rows. After the first circuit is complete, I give myself a 10 second rest before I do that circuit again but lower the rep scheme to 6, and so on until I hit 1 rep.
45x Circuit of 7, sweating bullets already, terribly humid weather bleh
65x Circuit of 7
95x Full circuit, pretty dumb as I was sweating so much that I couldn’t even use the rack position grip for FS because it simply slipped out of my fingers. The transition from the front squat to the bent over row involved dropped the weight from my shoulder into the crevice of my inner elbows and to the floor. My nutrition was poor today, and I came in swinging and found out I was in over my head! I’ve done this same BB complex with 155lbs, and while that seems like it’d be twice as hard as with 95lbs, it really wasn’t. This was pure brutality. A gut check today, for real.
1-2 hour walk/hike before it pours.
5/20/13
First day back training all week.
FS to 10" low box 1-2 sec pause
135x3 focus here is NOT sitting back
185x3
185x3
185x3
185x3
185x3
185x3
Power Snatch
135x2
135x1
135x2
135x1
135x1
185x2 little top set for fun, all were smooth and went well
Sexy Broad Jumps
x1 having a hard time sticking my landing lol -__-
x3
x3
x3
other stuff and shut it down
5/21/13
Deadlifts w/ 2" Axle
125x8
220x5
275x5
335x3
385x2
405x3 meh, I’m a mess with deadlifts lol, I just wish it could be as easy as squats or OHP is for me. I still don’t have a set form of pulling. I constantly dabble with form thinking “Oh! This is why my deadlift is so lagging!”. Then I realize that’s foolish. I’m stronger pulling with higher hips, but I’m afraid of injuring myself again like that.
Stone ext.
100x10,10,10,10,10
SLDL w/ Dumbbells
50x10,10,10,10
Just a hard day on the psyche. I have a plan to deadlift heavy only once every 2 weeks. I’ll be adding more food in (carbs) to aid in recovery and what not. Every deadlift session for me is hard because it reminds me of my mistakes and botches in my training all my life. Somewhere, I made a terrible irresponsible mistake, and I pay for it with a joke of a deadlift. Granted,I have not pulled AT ALL in 2 months since the SI injury. Making the mistake of trying to pull with a rounded upper back costed me. I can cry all I want, the bar will stay in the same place. Train hard, fight easy, I guess.
Did you experience any pain during deadlifts?
[quote]csulli wrote:
Did you experience any pain during deadlifts?[/quote]
I’ve always felt pain during deadlifts, but up until january the pain never stopped me. It was more discomfort than pain, actually. My SI gets inflamed always after heavy deadlifts, but it never bothers me during them. The only actual active discomfort is in the right side of my mid back. There’s nothing there but rib and muscle, so maybe it’s a popped rib or some shit? I never understood that saying. I thought ribs can only break. Chris, it’s really a matter of my inability to be strong off the floor.
I just can’t pull weights off the floor like most people can, unless I go Pete Rubish mode and jerk it off the floor. I think I have really weak hamstrings. I can’t even bend over in every day tasks for a long period of time, they start burning within maybe 5-10 seconds of being bent over. That’s how tight those fuckers are!
Anyway, I tried to adopt a KK style of pulling around feb/march, and I didn’t have the ability to maintain a flexed low back so 2+2=bad things. I’m just trying to rebuild efficiently. I realized the only reason I COULD pull 500 was because I was using so much force from my CNS and no mind of my muscles or good technique. I have alot of time to peak and practice, along with my new found plan which changes things up quite a bit. I could rant all day on this.
5/13/13
Still pretty beat up from deadlifts and stones 2 days ago, wasn’t too sure how today would pan out.
FS/upper back
135x5
185x3
225x3
275x2
315x1
365x1 easy
385x1
405x1 PR, happy about this, although I did not feel very strong today. I put 425 on the bar after this, but realized I was totally gassed. 100% I’m good for 425.
Pull ups
x5,5 fast but I lose my strength quick around the 5th rep.
x5
x5
x5 every set besides the last one were done with an overly wide grip because I am cool.
DB rows
40x15
60x15
90x15
I used a yoke as support during my rows (the plate sleeve) and the crossbeam wasn’t on, but a barbell was placed onto the top rack of the yoke, so it had no stability…I lost attention of it and that shit came crashing down and smashed a 6 gallon bucket filled with chalk.
Yes, I am just that awesome.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I lost attention of it and that shit came crashing down and smashed a 6 gallon bucket filled with chalk.
[/quote]
Get a 5 gallon bucket you damn communist.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I lost attention of it and that shit came crashing down and smashed a 6 gallon bucket filled with chalk.
[/quote]
Get a 5 gallon bucket you damn communist.[/quote]
What time do you go to bed?
5/25/13 (last workout was supposed to be 23 not 13!)
Groin is bugging me today from tweaking it somehow lying in bed last night…HMMMM!?
Events
Yoke
270x100ft repick at halfway
360x50ft
450x60ft~
550x50ft
550x20ft dropped it because I had nothing going. I was all over the place. I can’t seem to find a rhythm with this weight.
550x60ft steady but I just have no speed.
550x60ft bleh
550x60ft slow
550x60ft FAST?!
550x80ft~ took it further than planned because I managed to find a stride…bummer I find it later than sooner.
As seen clearly by the amount of sets done with yoke, I’m very stubborn. I finished (strong I’d like to think), so woooo.
Axle Clean and Press
125x stuff
175x5
220x3 presses were all over the place, core is gone from yoke
265x2 fast continental but I’m just feeling like poop. I practically strict pressed the 2nd rep because I’m stubborn and I like to make the bitch my weight by one motioning it as soon as I pop it to the chest. Easy.
285x1 didn’t feel this one much on the clean or the press. Need to do better with continentals.
305x2 I want to break down JUST how this went. Basically, when you clean and axle of maximum weight, you have to continental clean it which means to waist first, then pop up to your chest to press it. With a weight this heavy, I usually have to rest it on my stomach for 2-3 seconds before I pop it simply because it is heavy as fuck! But this time around, I cleaned it to my stomach, and popped it right up to my chest for the press in one solid motion followed by a press immediately after. It was just BOOM BOOM PRESS! I’m really happy I put on such a show with this damn axle after 7 sets of yoke. Also, the second rep was just a press, no clean. Woo!
Sled push/drag
180x50ft/50ft
280x50ft/50ft
280x50ft/50ft
280x50ft/50ft
280x50ft/50ft Hurts SO good
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
I lost attention of it and that shit came crashing down and smashed a 6 gallon bucket filled with chalk.
[/quote]
Get a 5 gallon bucket you damn communist.[/quote]
What time do you go to bed?[/quote]
Like midnight usually. Or 7 in the afternoon if I did a ton of prowler laps lol.
[quote]strongmanvinny wrote:
305x2 I want to break down JUST how this went. Basically, when you clean and axle of maximum weight, you have to continental clean it which means to waist first, then pop up to your chest to press it. With a weight this heavy, I usually have to rest it on my stomach for 2-3 seconds before I pop it simply because it is heavy as fuck! But this time around, I cleaned it to my stomach, and popped it right up to my chest for the press in one solid motion followed by a press immediately after. It was just BOOM BOOM PRESS! I’m really happy I put on such a show with this damn axle after 7 sets of yoke. Also, the second rep was just a press, no clean. Woo![/quote]
Aw shit yeah
Why does T-Nation keep denying my posts, I have to like reenter shit 47x before it actually goes.
5/27/13- I had previously written the log but T-Nation didn’t let it go through, so I’m just gonna sum up what a crap session took place today.
Came in pretty beat up, but I didn’t realize how bad it was until I began feeling discomfort through my sciatic nerve ( I think?) which happens to me seldom, usually on heavy back carries (Yoke, BS). It only shows when I extend my left leg all the out with a dorsiflexed foot. Anyway, I was warming up with 95 on hang snatch and no one was home for the catch, so the wall had to catch me…it wasn’t pretty. I also came to know that both of my biceps were strained somethin’ fierce on this 95 snatch! I really have to listen to my body in times like this. Saturday fucked me UP!
FS to BS
165x6,6,6
165x6,6,6
Self Deprecation
x10,10,10
x10,10,10
Haven’t posted in some days because I have not been doing any training, but for those who read this, I’ve been tainted with a myriad of injuries. Injuries that aren’t necessarily going to stop me from doing well in what I want to pursue, but injuries that are quite nagging and demoralizing when I consider my age and place in the sport.
My ‘pinched nerve’ is doing significantly better, but I’ve skipped all gym training this week, and I had planned for my next event session (saturday) to be completed as planned originally, but maybe with lighter weights. I don’t know what caused the issue, but I’m thinking the culprit might have been excessive rolling of my PSOAS/glutes on a really hard roller. The roller was steel, and I’m thinking maybe the weight of my body, and my exposed psoas/glute tie in might have made for a nasty opener for nerve damage? Can this be possible? I really hope so. I don’t know what else could cause it. The symptoms are as followed:
-Nerve discomfort in left hamstring (barely any but it’s very prominent) when I extend my left leg, especially when dorsiflexed ankle and head down.
-Opening mouth really wide seems to trigger it a bit (weird?)
-Any glute stretching really aggravates it.
-The more active I am, the less I feel it.
-A deadlift position feels just fine, I just cant extend the leg.
-The pain isn’t incapacitating, nor is it really pain. I don’t like nervy feelings and I really fucking hate nerve problems in general.
I hope someone takes the time to read this, I’m definitely 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag, but I’m trying!
Would like sitting in a deep squat position for an extended period help? Or doing that psoas/hip flexor kneeling stretch?