I’m not sure what I am doing. Depressed and dealing with existential
stuff in the current climate. Why am I doing this? Bailed on training the last
day last week. I spent most of Saturday just writing my thoughts out for hours.
Sunday I spent hours in the garage filling sandbags in the heat. Just sweating
without the fans on. To feel like I was doing something or to punish myself
someway. Skin peeling off my hands and forearms cramping. Ended up breaking my
scale from repeated sandbag drops. My heart and head just aren’t in this right
now. No sense in having a strength coach if I can’t guarantee I’m not going to
just sleep the whole day away and not do the workouts. Trying to keep myself
occupied and get some focus on the locus. Isolation (self and forced) and stuff
being cancelled or unsafe. Why train for something that will be cancelled,
especially when it is a lot. I don’t feel like working for stuff that aren’t
immediate gratification at this point. As far as strongman stuff, my hope is
that USS Nats is far enough out that things will be better and it can happen. But
it might not. I see large groups and events not really happening. Maybe smaller
venue. Do I want to try for something that could get cancelled or not be
offering what was initially offered? Is it worth renewing SC membership for
another year of not competing (last year being injury)? I’m not sure. Only
things I want at this point are to have a better log and deadlift and not be
how I am and have been the past month.
Mobility Prep
12” Log Cleans & Push Presses (1 clean)
Kettlebells
15’sx10
Dumbbells
40’sx5
Log
110x3
140x1
170x1
190x1
210x5
210x5
210x5
210x5
210x5
12” Log Cleans (10 seconds hold)
250x1
290x1
330x1
Slingshot Dips
bwx10
bw+45x5
bw+90x3
bw+135x9
bw+135x17
Bench Chest Supported Dumbbell Rows
70’sx10
70’sx10
70’sx10
70’sx10
70’sx10
12” Log Seated Overhead Lockouts
110x1
160x1
200x1
250x6
270x6
290x4
Band Pull A-parts/Band Triceps Pressdowns/Trap 3 Raises
MMB+MBx12/LBx25/10’sx12
MMB+MBx12/LBx25/10’sx12
MMB+MBx12/LBx25/10’sx12
Stretching
Comments: I was not sure if this day was even going to
happen. Motivation was not really there and flash flooding warnings. But the
sun came out and it dried out so I had not weather excuses. I had a workout
plan but I felt myself changing things as I went. Walking a mobility prep was
good. I dropped the dumbbell warm-up for the shoulders as I felt it was a bit
much to start with and I’d be doing stuff later in the workout. Plan here was
log for 5x5 with a lighter weight. 100lbs under the goal weight for a contest
maybe. Single cleans. I knew I was out of practice from the log work last week
with how I was wobbly. I knew from the week before that that I wasn’t really
being efficient with reps over 2 at this point. I got new compression thin
sleeves for the knees. This meant I could put my old and worn ones on my
biceps. First set felt like crap. My forearms were sore. I didn’t want to use
wrist wraps for this light of weight. Get used to reps and breathing. I got a
bit better with things as I went. I had figured that first set was going to be
the roughest of them. The planned thing after this was overload work. I’m not
sure how I’m going to be doing it all the time but I wanted to work my clean
today. Singles with holds at the top. I had something like work up over 5
singles but I did 40lbs jumps to get to the planned 330lbs and that felt ok.
330lbs felt darn heavy. Not ideal if the plan was to press this obviously. I’m
being very deliberate with the cleans to not pull my biceps and to minimize
energy loss. This felt good but I’ll have to figure out if I want to do this
more frequently than once a month like I was thinking. Slingshot dips after
that. I’m not sure how I feel about these. They are very taxing exercise with
how much pressure they put on the body but I like how they traction my lower
back in a way that alleviates my disc bulge issues. Borrowing from stuff, I
worked up to 135lbs (well below what I can do) to do a set of 8 and then a max
rep set. I miscounted and did 9 by mistake. As has been the case, I ended up
getting 10 reps in a row and then rest-paused the remaining reps. After that,
it was chest supported dumbbell rows. I didn’t like the barbell ones. These
were easy. Not planning on pushing things hard with these. More to get some
back work in and to rest before doing more heavy triceps. Not sure what my plan
is here. If I’m going to keep them like this and not change them up like I do
with the light squats I’ve been doing or add reps to the sets or change up the
back exercise. The next thing was something I wanted to do to bring back
something I felt was missing. Just powerful lockout. The plan here was to do a
6rm on this and have it be from the sticking point. However, I ran into some
issues. The rack continues to be shoddy in that it tilts down due to the weight
on the rack arms. So it ends up lower at the front and higher at the back. I’m
trying to use the back as that at least seems safer as my log appears to just
be long enough to fit. 250lbs was ok but I got stuck on the 6th rep
for some reason. I was surprised that the other reps felt so easy so I had to
do more weight to get an accurate set weight. 270lbs again good with a slow
down on the last rep. 290lbs proved too much as I got 4 and got stuck on a 5th.
The plan for next time is sets with 270lbs. Like when I did the yoke seated
lockouts. I’m hoping things are good for next time. The last thing then was a
triset. Bands and light dumbbells. Shoulders and upper back and triceps. Get
the little muscles and the stuff that needs higher rep tendon work. Upper back
and shoulders with the band pull aparts and t3 raises and then band triceps
after all the triceps smashing to get some blood flow in there after the heavy
compound stuff. Felt good. Unintended effect of having the triceps also be a
part of the pull aparts. I had planned to do 30 reps for the triceps but
dropped it to 25 reps. This was a lot of work. I don’t plan the other workouts
in the week to be as involved. I’m treating them as 1st and 2nd
halves of one workout for the lower body stuff really. Stretching and eating to
finish off the evening. Will need to resume the recovery work stuff again.
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