Spending the week with old people for thanksgiving won’t have anything but bodyweight unless I can find a sledgehammer or some heavy rocks or something.
Smolov… I’ll list my completion or failure when it happens afraid to jinx it. Wonderful Russians.
On the third week of the base mesocycle of Smolov, boxers split on both legs on the 6th rep of 4X9. Finished the Set. PR for willpower and testicle ROM.
BASE MESOCYCLE HAS BEEN DEFEATED. Testing my squat soon.
Finished Smolov, not squatting anything over a plate for at least a week, sweet jesus, my legs grew a goddamn inch in 3 weeks.
Monday day 1 smolov junior close grip bench
245X6X6
Done.
Tuesday
Deadlift
Retarded
135X8
225X5
315X5
405X1
495X1
545X1
605X2.9
Holds from high rack with 700 1X15 seconds 1Xless than 15 seconds
Something hurts like fucktardation in my left hamstring, have no idea why I thought it would be a good idea to try for 3 with 605 after not pulling for 4 weeks of smolov. Stupid mistake and I am paying for it, but man did the weights fly today. My lockouts are always slow but I have never had my deadlift stall like it did today, oh well, not too concerned, I’ll take a week off of pulling and squatting heavy and do some rehab work. Happy Holidays are coming however.
Day 2 smolov junior close grip bench
260X7X5 easy
REMIX SMOLOV JUNIOR BENCH
because Christmas happened and every gym was closed.
Monday 250X6X6
Wednesday 265X7X5
Also I got new knee sleeves, the legendary blue Rehbands. They are amazing, it feels like I’m getting a blowjob through my knees, best sleeves i’ve ever put on by far.
Hamstring is still pretty badly hurt not entirely sure why it hurts so high on my hamstring and it’s tough to diagnose on my own, so I’ll be going to see an ortho. This sucks a fat shark dick because I have qualifiers in under a month and while I wasn’t going to go balls to the wall for it, I still wanted to put on a good show, if I can’t squat or pull for a few weeks I might be hard pressed to put up 1450
anyways
Back squat up to 405X1 and called it quits
Rack pulls from top of knee,
605X5
555X6
Even tried leg press, which hurt maybe worse than squat
took solace in pull ups 5X6
Friday
Smolov Junior close grip
285X8X4
Still haven’t thrown the wrist wraps on
Pull ups 3X6
Curls 135X3X6
Surprisingly dead
Smolov Junior Close grip
300X10X3
Still no wrist wraps
Had to leave because they closed early hit some rowing with sandbags which was really fucking hard no idea as to the weight but heavy for a sandbag
Trying to squat or pull tomorrow light and pray my hamstring is really done being awful
Back onto smolov junior but with an extra day between friday and sat so it moved today to today.
Close grip bench
260X6X6
Dumbell Rows 110X32, 24, 20, 15
110X30, 24, 21, 15
PREACHER CURLS? WHAT?
100X3X6
Lateral raises
40’sX3X10
Curls? CURLS
I’m moving out of the room if you start walking around in a banana hammock
Trying oly squats again because they hurt alot less for some reason, pulling comfortably from the third peg from the floor now should be good to at least qualify for nationals, this is kind of a shitty finish to a really really good training cycle. I only need 1290 so I figure if I qualify with my openers I can just be concerned about actually putting on a real show at nationals. Openers should be 405-425 315-325 and 545-565 depending on how everything feels. While I am no longer anything like confident in 1500 I do think I’ll still be able to do it for nationals maybe plus some pounds.
Total now will probably be more like 1350-1400 tops. Could be worse, could have been a bad tear instead of whatever it is, but I see no value in getting hurt at this comp, so I’ll deal with the sub-par results. Setting my sights on rehab work and what comes after the meet.
Hit my openers without a problem at all and much less pain than I was expected, very excited for what is to come now absolutely sure I will qualify goddamn happy. going 405 315 550 to open
Likely will pass on second deadlift and third squat
when and where are the competing at?
The actual collegiate raw nationals competition is August 29th
The qualifier which requires 1290 to qualify for my weight class for the above is January 29th
Both are in Scranton Pennsylvania and should bring out an awesome collection of lifters
*Edit, this is wrong stuff, those were geared numbers that are retardedly low all i needed was a raw total at all in a meet, hit 1375 so would have qualified in gear, will be competing as a 275 raw in August, probably at 260ish
DEEEELOAD and hopefully enough rehab to not get hurt with my openers.
Pulled 6 in comp with a torn hammie. BOOSH.
Won a medal it was cool, going to nationals soon. Boosh. Today is an awesome day
Starting this bitch back up
Monday Bench Close Grip
315X1X3
295X3X3
Incline 225X2X8
Dips with shit in my backpack
1X18 1X11 1X9
Tuesday 2/2
Tried Speed singles with 495
weren’t speedy enough for me to be happy with
495X5X1
Dumbell rows with fat gripz 120’s (haven’t done these in a while, they humbled my ass some.
2X10
1X17
1X15
Face Pulls 120X3X10
Planks with 70lbs in plates
3X90,90,70something seconds
Wednesday
Bullshit stuff
Barbell curls 135X3X8
Upright Rows 135X3X10 185X1X4
Lateral Raises 47.5’sX3X8
Done.
New training stuff will be running modified coan again on Tuesday (fewer speed sets, more pure glute work) next week or the week after if all goes well (going to 661 coming off of the hamstring/adductor tear), easing back into squat and running widowmakers and high rep rack pulls on alternating Fridays (Widowmakers are 20 rep “breathing” squats with 12-15 rep straight reps max) the rack pulls will be sets of 20 from just below the knee, they’ve always given me a ton of added mass and made my balls heavier by a few grams. Pressing will be the Coan bench routine with a few minor changes on mondays, thursdays will be alternate pressing with whatever feels weak, lockout, paused work chain work, shoulders etc. Weekends will be recovery and or hill sprints or prowler now that one is readily available. I feel great about the training cycle to come, happy about what could have been a better but could have been a much worse performance and bulking until the snow is gone.
Wednesdays will remain bullshit and recovery day as well.
Still Feeling very very light and small, weighed in at 244, hit a surprisingly easy 345 close grip and then just missed a 365 close grip (PR @254)
Have to work on keeping my head down however, I am way too used to picking my head up and USAPL doesn’t allow that for some reason. Actually if anyone knows why I would really like to know
Went something like this
135X1X8
225X2X4
295X1X1
345X1X1
365X2X0 both close both infuriating
Strict Military
45X10
135X8
185X8
205X3
185X7
Then went scuba diving?
yup. Scuba is a fuckton of fun, I hate swimming unless it’s being used as a preventative measure for drowning, but scuba is really enjoyable, even when the water is cold, it’s just sick to be able to dive under and breathe, take that mother nature, your shit can’t drown me.
Are you and IronAbrams roomies?