Axle Clean and Split Jerks (one clean)
46x3
46x3
96x3
146x3
186x2
218x1
250x1
280x1
310x0
310x0
310x0
46x3
46x3
96x3
146x3
186x2
218x1
250x1
280x1
310x0
310x0
310x0
Axle Push Presses (Beltless)
238x3
238x3
238x3
238x3
238x3
238x3
Half Kneeling Band Face Pulls (low anchor point)/Band Triceps Extensions (facing away, rack)
mmb+µbx25/sbx25
mmb+µbx25/sbx25
mmb+µbx25/sbx25
mmb+µbx25/sbx25
Stretching
Comments: So this was a disaster. It could’ve been a lot worse as well. This week’s training had been shifted a day due to unforeseen events earlier this month. As has been the case the past few training cycles, this week prior to show ends up being the “heaviest” workout for the overhead with the lowest volume. It does make me anxious with how close it is. The plan also being that to ensure enough rest since this day was moved back a day that I’d then be doing the next workout the following day to allow for enough rest leading up to the show. I had wanted to do this in the early afternoon or late morning but work stuff was being stupid and it didn’t work out and it started raining as soon as my lunch break ended (but cleared up right away). So on to the workout. Plan was to work up with whatever I was going to use for contest and aim being work up to 1st or 2nd attempt for the show. Not that that made too much sense with the plan being to just do the opening weight and every jump after it (275lbs and 20lbs jumps). No idea with warm-ups with 107 people listed as attending so any advantage from just doing my top weight as my opener would be too risky a ploy. I already know that I’m not going to be near the top on this with the pressers showing up and how this has been going. But I guess I should be ok with going from missing 230lbs on the clean to missing 310lbs on the clean. With how last time the intentional belt clean had been the best of the lifts, I needed to be intentional with it warming up and for the top weights here. Suggested top weight was 310lbs with the idea being more weight than 2 weeks prior but leaving 10-15lbs in the tank for the show. That was the expectation. I felt I had that from how the past two weeks of axle training had gone. Trying out the split jerk for these. Things were good. Only had some hesitancy on the belt clean with 250lbs being steady and then going. I didn’t wear my usual stuff as far as two shirt as I don’t need it for the belt clean style as that completely bypasses the lower ab and sternum situation. 280lbs went up well enough, just a little lopsided with the lockout. I didn’t think that 310lbs would give me trouble but it did. First go and my headgear betrayed me. The do-rag came undone and flopped down right in my face as I got the axle to my belt. I was blinded and I had to blow my breath out to get it fall off my face. I should’ve put it down to regroup like I did two weeks ago when I missed my belt completely with 300lbs. But I thought I could do it. I couldn’t. I didn’t manage to the axle high enough to get under and catch it. Damn it. Damn it. So I felt like I had completely ruined the entire peaking and training cycle for axle in that moment. But this also meant that the belt clean wasn’t a sure thing. I had only tried it with 250lbs last week and I kind of needed to see what would be the case with higher weight. I reset things and like a moron tried again. I got it higher this time but couldn’t get the one arm under it and missed the clean again. Idiot. I should’ve stopped at the first miss. This time doesn’t matter. The show matters. But I kept going because I don’t like or deal well with failure and I still felt like the press was there if I got the clean. I needed to see if I could get the clean with this style or not. So once again, I give it a go and this time I do get under the axle and stand up with it. It felt fine on the shoulders but I couldn’t do it. I gave it two tries and just not good enough. So this really sucked. This is like circus dumbbell for two cycles back in that I mess things up. I’ve not been good this cycle with axle, constantly changing things up and not committing to one thing out of desperation to hit past numbers. I’ve hit this weight before (even after two misses at the clean and with less prep time). I think that the fact it took me 5 weeks to even figure out the belt clean situation also didn’t help. I need to think on what style is going to work for the show. Belt clean is more technical and the misses are disastrous whereas the continental style is slower and draining and can also have misses. It took quite a bit for me to keep from just shutting down the workout at this point. The next thing was axle out of the rack. This was to be 3x3 with 15% less than the top weight in whatever style I didn’t do for the heavy stuff. So if I did jerks on the heavy stuff, I was to push press here and vice versa. Now this had been on the expectation that I’d get 310lbs easy. I didn’t. I completely failed and the only way I could’ve failed more was if I got an injury. So I based the numbers off 280lbs since that was the most weight I got successfully. I elected to go beltless since this was way lighter than what I was probably expected to do. As has been the case, these out of the rack lifts feel like garbage after the clean and pressing if I don’t start over light. I unracked the weight and got set and then put it back down as it felt so damn heavy on my wrists and shoulders. Went back to give it an honest go and still about the same but I know that I can move this weight. They looked like they moved well enough but I had not real feelings of ease or that these were feeling good. I wasn’t going full bore serious here and was going through the motions to get done as just messed up with how the last heavy axle went. Granted I’m in a better spot than 5 weeks ago where I was worried that my clean was so bad I’d miss the opener weight. So now I might miss the 3rd jump. I feel like I put in so much effort on these overheads and deadlifts and rarely do things work out for me when I need them to. Deadlift has been more consistent with competition the past three cycles. Last thing was the low anchor point face pulls and triceps extensions. Two sets of 15-25 reps. No pauses or holds or anything like that. Just doing reps and such. I increased the band tension for the face pull portion since it had been so light comparatively last time. Just going in reps to get blood flow. Put stuff away and kind of stewed before I felt like making dinner a few hours later and then stretching.
Comments: So this was a disaster. It could’ve been a lot worse as well. This week’s training had been shifted a day due to unforeseen events earlier this month. As has been the case the past few training cycles, this week prior to show ends up being the “heaviest” workout for the overhead with the lowest volume. It does make me anxious with how close it is. The plan also being that to ensure enough rest since this day was moved back a day that I’d then be doing the next workout the following day to allow for enough rest leading up to the show. I had wanted to do this in the early afternoon or late morning but work stuff was being stupid and it didn’t work out and it started raining as soon as my lunch break ended (but cleared up right away). So on to the workout. Plan was to work up with whatever I was going to use for contest and aim being work up to 1st or 2nd attempt for the show. Not that that made too much sense with the plan being to just do the opening weight and every jump after it (275lbs and 20lbs jumps). No idea with warm-ups with 107 people listed as attending so any advantage from just doing my top weight as my opener would be too risky a ploy. I already know that I’m not going to be near the top on this with the pressers showing up and how this has been going. But I guess I should be ok with going from missing 230lbs on the clean to missing 310lbs on the clean. With how last time the intentional belt clean had been the best of the lifts, I needed to be intentional with it warming up and for the top weights here. Suggested top weight was 310lbs with the idea being more weight than 2 weeks prior but leaving 10-15lbs in the tank for the show. That was the expectation. I felt I had that from how the past two weeks of axle training had gone. Trying out the split jerk for these. Things were good. Only had some hesitancy on the belt clean with 250lbs being steady and then going. I didn’t wear my usual stuff as far as two shirt as I don’t need it for the belt clean style as that completely bypasses the lower ab and sternum situation. 280lbs went up well enough, just a little lopsided with the lockout. I didn’t think that 310lbs would give me trouble but it did. First go and my headgear betrayed me. The do-rag came undone and flopped down right in my face as I got the axle to my belt. I was blinded and I had to blow my breath out to get it fall off my face. I should’ve put it down to regroup like I did two weeks ago when I missed my belt completely with 300lbs. But I thought I could do it. I couldn’t. I didn’t manage to the axle high enough to get under and catch it. Damn it. Damn it. So I felt like I had completely ruined the entire peaking and training cycle for axle in that moment. But this also meant that the belt clean wasn’t a sure thing. I had only tried it with 250lbs last week and I kind of needed to see what would be the case with higher weight. I reset things and like a moron tried again. I got it higher this time but couldn’t get the one arm under it and missed the clean again. Idiot. I should’ve stopped at the first miss. This time doesn’t matter. The show matters. But I kept going because I don’t like or deal well with failure and I still felt like the press was there if I got the clean. I needed to see if I could get the clean with this style or not. So once again, I give it a go and this time I do get under the axle and stand up with it. It felt fine on the shoulders but I couldn’t do it. I gave it two tries and just not good enough. So this really sucked. This is like circus dumbbell for two cycles back in that I mess things up. I’ve not been good this cycle with axle, constantly changing things up and not committing to one thing out of desperation to hit past numbers. I’ve hit this weight before (even after two misses at the clean and with less prep time). I think that the fact it took me 5 weeks to even figure out the belt clean situation also didn’t help. I need to think on what style is going to work for the show. Belt clean is more technical and the misses are disastrous whereas the continental style is slower and draining and can also have misses. It took quite a bit for me to keep from just shutting down the workout at this point. The next thing was axle out of the rack. This was to be 3x3 with 15% less than the top weight in whatever style I didn’t do for the heavy stuff. So if I did jerks on the heavy stuff, I was to push press here and vice versa. Now this had been on the expectation that I’d get 310lbs easy. I didn’t. I completely failed and the only way I could’ve failed more was if I got an injury. So I based the numbers off 280lbs since that was the most weight I got successfully. I elected to go beltless since this was way lighter than what I was probably expected to do. As has been the case, these out of the rack lifts feel like garbage after the clean and pressing if I don’t start over light. I unracked the weight and got set and then put it back down as it felt so damn heavy on my wrists and shoulders. Went back to give it an honest go and still about the same but I know that I can move this weight. They looked like they moved well enough but I had not real feelings of ease or that these were feeling good. I wasn’t going full bore serious here and was going through the motions to get done as just messed up with how the last heavy axle went. Granted I’m in a better spot than 5 weeks ago where I was worried that my clean was so bad I’d miss the opener weight. So now I might miss the 3rd jump. I feel like I put in so much effort on these overheads and deadlifts and rarely do things work out for me when I need them to. Deadlift has been more consistent with competition the past three cycles. Last thing was the low anchor point face pulls and triceps extensions. Two sets of 15-25 reps. No pauses or holds or anything like that. Just doing reps and such. I increased the band tension for the face pull portion since it had been so light comparatively last time. Just going in reps to get blood flow. Put stuff away and kind of stewed before I felt like making dinner a few hours later and then stretching.
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