G5.0 vs. Gravity: The Neurotic Ramblings of a Man on a Mission

[Guinness5.0]

This will be a long journal. I hope it will last less than 7 months, but somehow I doubt it. Win, lose or draw, I'll do my best and say 'come what may'. This is my road to a 600 pound deadlift.

For the last week and a half I've been deloading after pushing a bit too hard. For now it's gonna be WSB - who knows what else will enter the mix down the road. Let the fun begin....

Phase One: WSB
Week 1 -- Monday

Warmed up with OH Squats - worked up to a triple w/ 165 and I coulda done more. I worked on these quite a bit while deloading. These are shooting up weekly and are very fun to do.

ME Box Squat
wamrups
Triples with 275, 315, 365
Singles w/ 405, 465, 465xfail, 435
-I was going for three singles @ 90% intensity, but these days I'm settling on the box a bit more. The change has clearly made this lift tougher. That just means that I'll progress more quickly on it, and probably get more carryover to my dead. However, now that I think about it I may have been too upright, and after reading this article I think that I'm initiating the lift with my hips and then drivng my head back, when it should be the other way around. I'll pay close attention to it on Friday's DE box squats.

RDLs
worked up to 315x5x3 [I write weight x reps x sets, by the way, so this was three sets of five reps at 315]
-Easy, intentionally.

Then I did some goofball back extensions by just lying facedown on the floor and lifting my head/torso as high as I could for a few sets of 10+ reps. I started doing these when my back was hurting last week and they seemed to help by a notable degree. I would have done some decline situps but some douchebag was making it his mission to do countless sets of 'em with the only decline bench at my gym. It doesn't take much to get me to skip abs, so I left at this point.

 

[nelmsjer]

Congrats on the OH squat progress and initiation of a new journal. Here I am hoping for 500 and you're shooting for 600. Go get it.

 

[blut wump]

Good luck with your mission.

 

[BiggT]

Are you box squating in the olympic shoes or something flat??

Good journal, and nice title as usual.

 

[Guinness5.0]

Are you box squating in the olympic shoes or something flat??

Good journal, and nice title as usual.

I rock Chuck's for wide squats and deads, Oly shoes for everything else.

Also, I wanna thank the folks who contributed to this thread . I will be using it as a resource.

 

[Cynical Simian]

Really looking forward to this...best of luck!

 

[majutsu]

it's as good as done
quit pumping up a goal you've already achieved what have you done for me lately
you need to hit 666lbs that's the magic number

 

[Guinness5.0]

Phase One: WSB
Week 1 -- Wednesday

Shitty day. Me and a friend threw a baseball around over the weekend and my shoulder is still sore from it Pretty pathetic...

ME Bench
warmups, triples w/ 225, 275, 295
singles w/ 315, 335, 355xfail

-I got 345 pretty easy last week, so I'm sure that 365 is doable. I can't get over how sore I was from Sunday's game of 'catch'.

CGBP
225x5, then aborted

-These flat out hurt

BB Rows
225x8x3

-Moderately difficult

Hammer Curls
45's x8, 50's x6, 55's x6

-Just did 'em because of how short the workout was

I was out of town for a job interview and the gym I was in sucked, which didn't help but really had nothing to do with the lackluster performance. Oh well. Just one of those days I guess

 

[BiggT]

I played catch with a nerf football last 4th of July for an hour or so and it seriously, seriously fucked up my lifting for a good week or two, lol.

 

[blut wump]

I've found myself reluctant to let rip with a throw these days. Maybe just training for strength costs you a little in flexibilty.

The other thing, G5.0, is that you were at an alien gym. The hooks on the bench may have been at a different height to what you're used to. We have two benches worth using at my gym and one of them is used by short-armed guys and the other by longer-armed. I find it a lot harder to lift on the short-arms bench.