July 30, 2010 - DE LB

Dynamic Warm-ups

13.5” Box Squats w/IW#3’s dbl clinched
No Bands
45x10
Add Bands (+175lbs)
45x2
95x2
135x2
185x2
237x2
237x2
237x2
237x2
237x2
237x2
237x2
237x2

Yoke
490x50'
630x50'
770x50'
910x22'6" (1 drop)

Farmer's Walk (turns at 50')
176x100'
176x100'
216x100'
216x100'

Dimel Deadlifts
260x20 PR+5lbs
260x20
260x20

33 Minutes of Stretching

Comments: Found out that today was my last day at my work assignment, I had thought I had another month there. So that was a bit unexpected. Luckily I did receive a new assignment but it did bum me out a bit. Then I found the entry form for the next Battle at the Barn and it granted me a brief reprieve from my pity party. Didn't walk today. Box squats were good, hips a bit tender as were knees. Yoke felt good until the last set. I was pissed off to only get 22'6" with 910lbs when I've gone farther in a competition on a really lousy day. However, I need to focus on the positives. For starters, when I did that at a contest, it was after a deload week, and I wasn't pre-fatigued by much (just picks and I bombed the first two events). I need to keep records of just using my yoke and base my numbers off of that. I find my yoke is very unforgiving. For instance, 770lbs is the most I've done where I haven't dropped it due to the flexing. It was 740lbs until today. The point is, I have to keep that in mind and train this like I do with my farmer's walk implements. My implements are usually going to be tougher than the ones I use in a contest so it shouldn't get me that pissed off. But I wasn't thinking about this at the time and I was considering packing it in for the day. Picking up 910lbs on my yoke hurt. I begrudgingly got farmer's walk stuff setup and did my sets. Same with dimels and then did stretching.