Felt like I barely broke a sweat holding 24 mph on the airdyne for that long, so that’s good. Solid, quick session overall. Got bench & maybe some cleans this afternoon
Weight has been dropping a little bit already. Weighed in at 188 pre workout this morning. I’m fine with that though, as I figured it would happen. Don’t want to drop much below 185 if I’m still losing at that point, but in the 185-190 range is where I tend to look, feel, & perform the best. Obviously the heavier I am the stronger for the most part, but when factoring in conditioning that seems to be the sweet spot
Bench 5x5x190
Power clean + hang power clean 2 sets at 185, 2 sets at 205
Finished both of these in about 16 minutes. Went 1 min rest on bench then hit the cleans. Cleans felt fine for being the first time doing them in a pretty long time. Still evaluating the short PM lifting sessions, we will see
Held an 8:30 pace on the run at a moderate effort. Wasn’t super easy to hold, but didn’t have to dig too deep on it either. Right now, having just re introduced running, I’m just trying to get back into it before adding more intensity. It feels weird having so many workouts that don’t leave me on empty, but this is how an aerobic base gets built
Laid another brick in the foundation this morning. Got some lifting this afternoon, which will be more exciting than 40 minutes staring at my garage door
Fun facts: from starting the set of 110 on press to finishing 145 took only 2 minutes & 15 seconds. Good way to make the 5’s week a bit more challenging, though still not that difficult
Accumulate 100 dips + 100 chins (finished at 14:50)
Notes
Cleans felt better as I went along. Did dips & chins for fill the sleeves, trying to go quickly to get a little bit of conditioning. Didn’t work for conditioning, as I just hit muscle fatigue first, but worth a shot. That’ll be it for training today, but some solid strength work at least
50 dips
50 chins
50 db curls
50 band push downs
50 band pull aparts
Notes
First day running in new shoes I got yesterday. Calves blew up quick, but other than that it was a good run. Held just under a 9:00 pace pretty comfortably. Then got accessory work in. Trying out a different setup this week- run Monday, Wednesday, Friday & lift Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, with some kind of workout on Sunday. Will do week two of 5/3/1 1000% awesome. Just trying to see what works & fits best in my schedule. No two a days planned for this week
Accumulate
50 dips
50 chins
100 band pull aparts
75 banded curls
75 band push downs
Notes
Solid lifting day. Still thinking what my goals are moving forward, as that will direct the ship on what I’m doing. Might work towards goals for press, running, & cleans, as I feel like that would cover most of my bases on things. But not sure yet. I really struggle with working toward the same goal/goals long term, as I very easily find new things I want to get better at & full send for those. Which isn’t all bad, as it basically is build in periodization, but I probably make less progress on specific things if I had just stuck to them
Woke up with a stomach ache this morning, & felt like I could barely stop myself from going to the bathroom for the last half mile. Seemed like I was risking it by even continuing at that point haha. So this ended up as not a fast or long run, but we got some work in & some days that’s all we can do
Accumulate
50 dips
50 chins
100 band pull aparts
50 db curls
50 band push downs
Notes
Realizing I probably have the most boring log on this whole site. Assistance is the same almost every day, but it seems like it’s been effective when I look in the mirror so I’ll keep hammering on it. Tomorrow I have a run then assistance work again, then cleans, pressing, & assistance on Saturday to round out the week. Looking forward to both of those
@SvenG@throwawayfitness appreciate that from y’all. Definitely a good reminder! Lots of consistent days eventually will add up to something big. Just gotta keep trusting the process!
50 dips
50 chins
50 band pull aparts
50 banded curls
50 band push downs
Notes
Calves are still getting lit up in new running shoes. My old ones were so worn down there was barely any cushion, so these still feel weird after a week of wearing & running over 7 miles. Anyways, I kept around a 9:20 pace for the first two miles, then picked it up to around an 8:30 for the last portion. Excited to keep at it with the running & see where it takes me
Worked out at a regular style gym with a friend, so got to try out some different stuff from the usual. Honestly, it reaffirmed for me that nothing beats the basics. I’ll take dips, chins, & pullaparts over any other accessory every day
50 dips
50 chins
50 band pull aparts
50 barbell curls
50 band push downs
Notes
Was initially planning on a longer, easier run, but I kept looking at my watch & was going faster than planned, so I just pushed it for 3 miles. Another new longest distance in a couple years, & at an 8:20 pace. Happy with that, as I know I wouldn’t have been able to do close to this a month or so ago. Plan will be to go for a slower, slightly higher mileage run tomorrow if things work out as I want
Schedule closed up a bit so I had to go with a shorter workout. Still got two miles in plus the essentials for assistance, though I had planned a longer, slow run. Will try to get in a little over 3 miles at an easy pace on Wednesday
50 chins straight into
50 banded curls
50 band pull aparts
Liked what I did with the accessory today. Made the push downs & curls extremely difficult. Felt like trash waking up this morning but this still ended up being a really good session
Glad that I was actually able to reign myself in on the run & slow down. It didn’t feel as easy as I’d expect this pace too, but legs didn’t feel great coming in. I didn’t write this yesterday, but the top set of 5x285 squats was very tough yesterday. It was pretty close to all I had in me, so recovery today was surely compromised. It is a little bit tough to see my squat numbers go down from all the running, but I know it can be a bit of a trade off & I’m alright with it. I’ll have another training cycle sometime where I run less to just maintain what I build, & then I can push squatting again, but that’s not what I want right now