training 6/26

Trained arms with a bunch of bodybuilding stuff. I felt like I actually accomplished SOMETHING vs. the day before where nothing was accomplished. Sometimes when my body is telling me no, I've got to change the question a bit. So for a couple of weeks I'm going to be doing some lighter higher rep stuff to try and get back to normal.

training 6/25

Farmers
100' runs up to 270

felt like crap, legs were like jello. Bike riding sucks.....called it a day as nothing productive was going to happen.

training 6/24

road Biked 25 miles again. Training for this biking sucks, I've spent 9 years trying to be explosive and powerful......Riding a bike is neither of those things.

training 6/23

CG 2-Board Bench
Up to 335 with a pause

JM Presses
135X10X3

Skull Crushers
95X15X3

Muscle Clean and Press
85X10X5

training 6/22

Road biked 25 miles by myself. This is going better, legs/ cardio is there, just gotta figure out why 280+ lbs on a tiny bike seat makes my legs go numb after about 1 hour lol.

training 6/21

Deads-
Supposed to be first week back into the normal routine, but wasn't feeling it when we got going.
up to
355+100lbs in band tensionX4
switched to Gm's

Good Mornings
50 lbs jumps for 3 reps up to
372X3

training 6/18

Front Squats
not sure on sets, but triples up to 342, tried a new technique for raking the bb, didn't work very well as my biceps cramped BAD and i had to stop with the fronts.

Vipor Log 13.5"
Triples up to 254.2 for a single, a new vipor PR. I'm very happy about this, I am not a very strong presser as those who read my log know. For me to hit over 250 without a jerk was a big mental PR. I believe I have more strength in my triceps, a lot more, but I need to keep working on this. Traditionally with the log I get 60-80 lbs out of my jerk, so maybe time for a new max effort log day?! If I can vipor 280 I will feel confident with the log at nationals (rumor 13" 300 lbers for heavies)

Some abs, then inspected the river flowing through my back yard.

training 6/15

I'm out of town for work for a few days. Had to hit up a commercial gym for my lift. It is great to have access to soo many machines every once in a while, but boy are people idiots. Everything done by anyone in the gym remotly heavy gets stares and comments/questions. It's like, I have headphones on and am by myself, do I look like I want to talk about my OH work with 50% of my max?

Anyway, did a BB workout with a TON of sets. Many machines/db work, which I can't do at MVBB. So it is nice to switch it up a little. Also my back is SOO sore from Monday night I couldn't have gone heavy and been productive.

Nothing really worth mentioning, the heavy work was on machines, so who knows what those numbers translate to. I'll be happy to hit events Friday.

Training 6/14

Today we decided to do some very heavy rack work, wanted to really hit my sticking point but at the same time not do full deads.

Nick Winters lifts and does what he calls "retarded" lifts. What he means is he adds soo much band tension it is stupid, so we figured we would give it a try.

Rack deads from 22" (weird sticking point I know, but I've taken 675 to this point easily, and not locked it out, the height puts the bar right at the top of my knee caps)
worked up in band tension until we had on the bar-(all short efs bands)yellow/black/silver/orange-should equal between 600-700 lbs at lockout
up to 225X1
then removed the orange
225X3
275X1
removed the silver
275X3
315X1
365X-/-
removed black
365X3
405X3
455X3
505X-/-

Pullups
intended to do a few sets but could hardly stand up straight. so one set of 5, then devoured about 1 lbs of steak.

Diet update

So my 2 week blitz is done. Starting weight 284.5, ending weight 272. So about 12 lbs. I was down to 275 after only a few days, which was for sure water weight. I started drinking water like crazy and uped it to 2 gallons a day and really flushed the system out. Based on the calipers I lost 6-8 lbs of fat. Based on yesterdays squatting I'd say I don't feel any muscle loss. I've bloated back after the carbs got added in to 277. But after taking this weekend off, I will start a 4 wk healthy bulk with a simple diet plan. Basically carbs for breakfast, and around training. None after the PWO meal in the evening. We will see how it goes, The plan is to tak the BW back up to 285-290 and see how I feel/look and go from there. I will allow some cheat type meals, but I'm going to limit them to 2 per week.

training 6/12

Box squats
wu to 342, then add reverse green band. We figured out it removed weight about the bottom 4-5 inches of the lift, and took off 50 lbs at 3 inches above bottom, and 70 all the way in the whole
then...
452X2
502X3
552X3
602X1 (was planning on one, should've gone for 3, very easy. I have a 600 squat in me for sure. The speed was good and I think without the bands I can still get this, I will hit it next time I'm feeling up for it.)
452X5

GHR/Band Leg Curl
bw/purple bandX15X3

training 6/10

Log bench
88X20
138X15
188X10
238X10
278X4.5
258X5/238X5/188X5/138X5/88X10

BB Rows
154.2X20
194.2X10
244.2X5
244.2X4/194.2X10/154.2X10

Blast strap pushups/inverted row
BWX15/15X3

training 6/5

Big event day for us.....
Tons of medleys
Tire flip(8 flips)/Farmers/Keg(uphill) (60'/80/50' uphill)
650 tire/160 farmers/225 kegX58.35 sec
650 tire/250 farmers/225 kegX 1.15.31

Yoke Uphill 50'
320Xup and down
410Xup and down
610X up and down
700X up and 410 down

link here- www.youtube.com/user/36pmartin

Farmers/Yoke/Keg/Hammer Strikes
all for 80 ft, then sledge strikes for 30 secs
160/410/225/18lbs seldgeX 56 sec
againX37 sec (both numbers are before the hammer strikes)

Training 6/1

Start of our deload week. Only stones today...

wu with some light squats then
Stones
238X1
258x1
270X1
308X1
338X1
375X1/338X-miss (tried to go reverse order series but the 375 took too much out of me)
308X3
270X5
238X1/258X1/270X1/308X1/338X-miss
308X-miss, spent, too hot today, not enough carbs.

Started a short diet yesterday. Plan is to drop 10 lbs of fat in 2 weeks being pretty aggresive about diet and cardio during that time, then resume healthy bulking. I got off the wagon with the healthy eating and have put too much BF on. Taking of the 10 lbs will help greatly and I should be able to put that 10 in the form of muscle no problem by August. Going zero carb and low fat for the diet. Basically the only fat is coming from whats in chicken, or fish, with a little bit of peanut butter to keep the low carb headaches at bay. Felt the lack of carbs in the series sets today already.

training 5/27

Conan's
did several sets, only working up to 300 or so. Not totally sure on the weights as it is the first time we've used the implement. It has a crazy low pick, so without knowing that in advance and having something to set it on, it was a full zercher squat for both Phil and I to stand up with it.

Niether of us feeling the training as it had been a long week, so we did a couple of light lifts and called it. Planning on a big stone session Tuesday after the weekend and we're both looking to make that a big day, especially with the 2 new stones. Should be a 5 stone series all over 300 loaded on Tuesday.