Squats

Suited up and took and opener tonight with knee wraps
875 X 1 Then added reverse gray bands
went to 965 for a single
Missed 1060 on my last squat. It was all screwed up from the start, I got about half way down and knew I was in terrible position so I just started back up.

Set up was off all night, but I went for it anyways. I mean what could happen...? haha yea yea I know I shouldn't tempt fate.

On a better note, Lindsay and I finally bought our house today. I have been moving the better part of the day and it was.....sucky, is a good word for it. I live on the third floor and lets just say I got a lot of GPP today.

Deload Bench night

Once again it was a scheduled deload night in the bench, but this close to the meet I can't see taking time down when I still feel decent.
Close grip floor press with e-z curl bar:
3 plates X 3 sets of 5
3.5 plates X 2 sets of 3
Dips with Purple Band over my back: 4-5 sets of 10
Single KB close grip incline press: 3 sets of 10 with the 106. These I thought up the other day training a client. nice triceps work, but some chest and front delts too.
Side DB raise: 40 lbs X 4 sets of 10 each arm.

Looking forward to taking a bench down to my chest next week to see where really am.

Deads and deloading

I took wednesday as a scheduled deload day and just did some stretching and foam rolling.

Saturday was supposed to be another deload day, but felt pretty good and didn't want to waste a good day so I still did some work.
Stiff Leg deads:
315 X 3
405 X 3
495 X 3 Double over hand on the first two, then the grip was done
545 X 3 used straps on this set

Dumbell Row with 150's: set of 10, 15, then 20 reps per arm

Pull ups: bodyweight X 4, X 5, X 5
hanging leg raise: 4 sets of 10
Foam rolled my back and stretched for about 20 minutes later in the day. Good workout.

Bench Day

More one board shirt work. I will pick up where I put the shirt on.
545 X 1 off 3 board
635 X 1 off 2 board
635 X 2 off 1 board
665 X 1 off 1 board (supposed to be a double, but one was hard enough 2 wasn't happening)
665 X miss left elbow flared and started drifting into the rack.

Lat pulldowns: 3 or 4 sets heavy 6-8 reps
close grip floor press with e-z bar 3 plates X 3 sets of 4. I use to do these a lot, and I think I am going to go back to doing these. My triceps need more work. I finally heard back on my shirt I ordered and I should be getting it within the week. Looking forward to getting my hands on it, but I won't get to have fun in it until next cycle.

Squats and Deads

Suit squats:
245 X 2 sets of 6
325 x 2 sets of 5
455 X 1
535 X 1
655 X 1
745 X 1 straps down
855 X 1 straps up
945 X 1 straps up with doubled up reverse purple bands
1005 X 1 straps up same reverse bands

First time doing reverse Bands at the end of a suit night. I think we should have added about 50-75 more lbs to our last attempt to make us work. The last set was too easy to be the last heavy set.

I had a speed day scheduled for deads today because I figured we would be trashed from two weeks of heavy squats, but we still felt good so we did some work

Deads:
135 X 3 sets of 8
225 X 2 sets of 6
315 X 2 sets of 2,
405 X 2 sets of 2 standing on 1" mats
495 X 2 on 1" mats
545 X 3 on 1" mats
585 X 3 on 1" mats
585 X 3 on 2" mats
545 X 3 on 3" mats

close grip pull-ups: 3 sets of 5-6 reps
45 degree back ext with 45lbs: 4 sets of 10
reverse hyper with 500 #'s: 2 sets of 12
Back is blown up....but happy the pull finally felt good.

Bench Day

Tonight we took straight weight to a one board for the first time this cycle. It went pretty well, but hoped for a little better.
135 X 3 sets of 10
225 X 2 sets of 6
315 X 2 off 3 board
405 X 1 off 3 board
495 X 1 off 3 board.
585 X 1 off 2 board
635 X miss off 1 board. It came off fine, but it got over my face and lost it in the rack.
635 X 1 off 1 board. Cleaner but not as fast as I was hoping.
675 X 1 very ugly rep off 1 board. Again, it came of ok but i almost lost this one over my face too. I need to work on pushing away instead of over my face.

rolling triceps ext: 35 X 10, 55 X 10, 65 X 10
One arm pushdowns with gray bands: 3 sets of 15

Decent night, and I am happy that I am able to easily touch a 1 board in this new shirt. In my old denim it was hard to touch a 1 board and I don't think I touched anything in it until my opener at the meet.

Dead Day Deload

Sumo Deads speed/form work: 5 sets of 2 with 405
romanian Deads: 3 sets of 6 with 315
Closegrip Pull-ups: 3 sets of 5
Hanging leg raise: 2 sets of 15
Reverse Hypers: 2 sets of 15 with 500.

Got just sore enough from this to call it work. Looking forward to bench night tonight. 1 boards singles tonight, so I will kinda see where I am at.