Barbell cycling today among other things.

EMOM 5 of 10 rep of clean and jerks at 135lbs.. Do not let go of the bar. It was brutal.

Here’s one of the sets.

My rad brother was in town Monday and we trained but oh it was very hungover.

LBBS 3x5 @ 75. I accidentally made a 10# jump and it was hard but not as hard as it could have been. Feeling like 100 is not far off and that is very rad. I’m chasing Annemarie’s numbers hard, hopefully I can catch up to he squat before my LP plateaus!

OHP 3x5 @ 50 again. It was awful. The end

DL 1x5 @ 105 and it was awesome. Matt helped me with my setup since I’m basically learning this lift all over again. I’m finally understanding the “squeeze your chest up” cue and I get to drop my butt a little bit in order to get my arms and shoulders where they should be. Bad news is he wants to to start hook grip now so I will be used to it when the weight gets heavy. Blah! So ouchy. Guess I’d rather now than later though.

I did like five reverse hypers before I felt like ass, and I barely walked, so accessory work was a bust. Don’t drink and lift kids!

Wednesday:

LBBS 3x5 @ 80. It was hard! But good! But hard! The technique is not all there and I need to allow myself more warmup time to focus on technique. I might actually do back off sets, I’ll ask my brother about it, because I don’t want time spent on eccentric movement in warmup to gas me for my work sets, but extra technique work would be a god thing for me I think. The good thing is my form breaks down less now than it ever has, and it doesn’t hurt when it breaks down like it used to so that’s a win too.

Bench 3x5 @ 57.5 Overall it’s feeling good, I guess my chest is finally understanding what I’m supposed to be doing. Slow and painful but in the right way I suppose.

Lat pulls @ 70, Chins at 70, 5x5 each alternating sets. One “heavy single” chin at 100 with a slow negative. I’ve decided to back off on volume sets and go for intensity instead so I can make bigger jumps in weight. Since I won’t start with a lot of chins it’ll be silly to work up to it by doing a lot. Maybe back off sets for these? Or just the heavy single? Dunno. Trying to get close to what’s recommended for people who can actually do negatives, which I can’t yet. Looking forward to it some day!