June 1, 2026 – Week 8, Day 1

Dynamic Warm Up

Superman Holds (5 seconds)
PVCx3
PVCx3
PVCx3

Chest Supported Dumbbell I/T’s
12’sx10/10
12’sx10/10

12” Log Clean and Push Presses (clean every rep)
90x5
120x4
150x3
180x2
210x3
210x3
210x3
210x3
210x3

Javelin Thrusters
45x2/2
65x2/2
85x1/1
100x2/2
100x2/2
100x2/2
100x2/2

12” Log Floor Presses/Banded Deadbugs
180x6
220x12 – lbx12/12
220x12 – lbx12/12
220x12 – lbx12/12

Seated Dumbbell Rear Delt Flyes
16’sx25
16’sx25

Stretching

Comments: That’s life. Stress got to me with everything Saturday last week and I got into a depressive funk. Thankful to have a holiday weekend (even with weather was rainy) so I could rest as I felt that was the most important thing. Not make any major decisions while not rested. As with how I was feeling mentally and physically, I was considering stopping with strongman stuff or at least making drastic changes with onus on myself. So rest first and then not worrying about a training week as I needed to get at least one thing under control so I chose work. Still really stressful but got a plan in place. Then figuring out training. I started to feel better by Wednesday and actually went for a walk on Thursday and then yard work on Saturday. I could tell that my inactivity had me feeling a little fatigued doing stuff. The other odd thing is I tend to feel good initially and then random ass aches and such if I don’t do stuff. Getting back on the horse this week with adjustments made based on my thoughts and feedback with Ms. Funk. Get back to feeling myself and keeping an eye on my recovery. As things seemed to be good until they weren’t that week. No real changes in my weight from doing nothing last week to this week (around 262lbs). Foam rolling there were some spots that needed it like my upper calves but nothing beyond that really stood out or was unexpected. Neck rehab was fine. Felt good. I added something to the warming up to hopefully get my “glutes” to wake up as they’ve felt like not engaging on stuff (primarily deadlift and squat lately). So doing some movements with the hip circle as part of my prep work. Lower body stretches followed up with a dead hang to decompress. So far, so good. I didn’t even like looking at my sandbags in the garage Sunday last week. The start to this session was much the same as when left off. PVC pipe exercise superman holds. I didn’t film these again as treating these as warming up. Again, I rested about 45 seconds between sets. I’ve not been doing stuff and upper back/neck tends to be what acts up when I don’t do stuff. I will say my lower body seemed to engage earlier than it has on these. Continuing right along. Then it was the ITs. Same weight and reps as last time. Able to move through these without issue and not too bad. Little bit of pump in the shoulders and upper back. Outside for most of the rest of this session. Not the scorching heat and oppressive humidity from last session thankfully. Log clean and press as expected. The plan was to get back into it and get some volume work. Suggested was 200lbs for 5x3 but I could adjust as needed if I wanted to go heavier. Last session while rough, I figured that my oly shoes worked best here. So since this was volume and lighter stuff, I figured I’d better see if other equipment would hold up here for me. Namely, knee sleeves and elbow sleeves. The knee sleeves are loose on me so not much compression and I think I was adding them more to keep my knees from getting torn up on the log. The elbow sleeves seeing if I can comfortably clean the log and if helps with lockout. Those are a bit tighter and been using them for my knee sleeves on squats. I have new pair that is to be coming for squats hopefully before Saturday. So log I was already planning on doing 210lbs so I could keep 30lbs jumps. Kind of compare it to my first week back on log as well to see if notice anything (for better or worse). It did seem like the knee aches at the start (when empty log) resolved sooner and I seemed to have less balance issues with the log on the press and overhead. Cleans felt better/easier. I think I still need to figure out if with the oly shoes if I should do the deeper squat to clean or just kind of power it up to the belt and go from there. It kind of felt like on the later sets that I was essentially able to just row up the log. The first rep generally felt the best each set with how the log moved and power. Also noticing that my stance might be better in some cases with my left foot slightly back (similar to how I lead with my right on doing box jumps or moving events now). Only set where I made a big oops was the last one. The first rep felt like the strongest all day so I got excited and followed the log down to try and just go right into the next one. Which I kind of forgot I don’t do because it tends to knock off my glasses. Which it did. So now I was visually impaired and had to make sure I didn’t step on the glasses or drop the log on them. So second rep was not ideal with how I picked the log nor was the third rep. Third rep I rushed putting my head through and log wasn’t quite there so it was still out in front of me and I had to fight to lock it out. Got to be smooth and patient here. Secondary pressing after that. For circus dumbbell but not circus dumbbell. As described, I was to be doing one arm barbell “presses” from a set rack height (bottom of my dip for circus bell) and then press up and catch like I would normally. So dead stop and no eccentric on the dip for these. I’ve seen them referred to as thrusters (also seen other stuff called thrusters) and blast presses or concentric only jerks/presses. I’ve never tried to do a thruster before but I’ve done one arm barbell stuff. The other change was that I was advised to do both sides this time around and likely the weight would be fairly light. Oddly enough, my right side felt stronger at the start for these and it felt awkward with my left. I think that was more that my right is tighter and I tend to use this grip if pressing overhead as feels comfortable vs the left side. I was kind of surprised I worked up to 100lbs on these. I knew my right knee would probably be a bit achy from doing the right side for pressing. I did a little rest between sides and full rest between sets. These went better in execution than I was expecting. Assuming I did these right (no YouTube vids of this one to find). Up next was pairing of log floor press those banded deadbugs. This seemed to go well last time I did these. This time it was 3x10-12 on the log stuff and 3x12 on the deadbugs. Weight was suggested as lighter this time and went with that hoping that 12 reps would be comfortable enough here. With the deadbugs, I was going to see if more band tension really did anything here and try to slow it down so it was less me doing a bicycle motion with alternating and more one leg and then the other. Those alterations did make things tougher there but not so much that it was life changing. Pressing felt a little odd at time but overall felt strong here. Rear delt stuff with light dumbbells to end the evening. Two sets of 25 reps. I figured that I could do just the 10’s again but figured that I’d try and push things with more weight if I could. It was more reps but with only being two sets I should be able to recover enough to survive with heavier weights here. First set felt about how I was expecting it and second set was pretty darn tough. Put stuff away before eating dinner and then stretching. A good start back at it.