August 07, 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
225x2
261x2
261x2
261x2
261x2
261x2
261x2
261x2
261x2

Yoke
455x75'
455x75'
570x75'
570x75'

Farmer's Walk (turns at 75')
126x150'
176x150'
216x150'
266x150' PR+50'

Dimel Deadlifts
265x20 PR+5lbs
265x20
265x20

34 Minutes of Stretching

Comments: As I said before, I've had to alter my training a little. It's to accommodate a night class I'll be taking in the coming weeks that kind of messes up my training routine days. Today didn't start off well as my right knee was achy and something started to bother my inner left thigh while warming up. I worked through it and tied three therabands around it to compress the area and keep it from being painful. That seemed to work. I wore my hard belt for the squats and that seemed to help quite a bit. I wanted to make sure I wasn't making a lot of unnecessary movements because of my thigh and upperback. Only had an issue on the last set as I got out of position. As I was heading upstairs to do yoke, I noticed my old leather belt and figured I'd give it a try with my other hard belt for double belt yoking. I've seen some people do this I know that Dave Ostlund had done this before. What a difference in core stability. However, my left trap was having none of this yoke business (guess still not 100% from last time) so I had to play around with different positions to keep from bothering it. Farmer's walk actually felt good with the turns the first two sets. I haven't pushed for a heavy weight for this kind of distance with a turn. 216lbs was manageable but the pick was a tad slow. 266lbs was a bear to move around with and I feared not completing with how much the pick got to me. But I made it. Dimels are starting to get tough. Lots of stretching, hope these aches start to clear up soon.