So this is my workout from yesterday
My membership at my gym is now on hold because I am still waiting on my direct deposit to go through and did not pay my dues yet. So I think I will be out of the gym a week. Instead I am training at home. When I was a teenager I had built a pretty nice home gym. I had a good bench, squat rack and around 550 pounds all olympic weights. I also had a dumbbell rack with weights ranging from about 15-50 pound dumbbells. I got rid of a lot of things when I started training at a local gym and moved a few times but I still have a bar and weights. And I have my 50 pound dumbbells.
So in the morning as it was my last day to train in the gym I figured the one thing I could not train for a week was my bench so that is what I wanted to focus on. I figured I would work up to a max double
warm up
135 x 15
185 x 10
245 x 4
285 x 3
work sets
315 x 5 pretty easy but harder than last time because I only had a day to rest since I benched last.
Now I started to work up to a max double
325 x 2
335 x 2
345 x 2
355 x 2 this was a PR, I don't bounce my reps either and I touch my chest. I like to almost load my lats on the way down very controlled, touch my chest with a slight pause and then explode up. This was my max double so I figured I would try for a single seeing as how I would not be benching for another week.
365 x 1
I feel like I could have got 370 or 375 but I did not have a spotter and I don't want to kill myself. My girlfriend was spotting me on a few of the doubles but stopped because "I look like I am going to yell at her and explode like a tomato"... On one set The bar was moving up but slow and I saw her hands coming so I yelled "I got it!" and she proceeded to pull it off me thinking that by yelling i must have needed help. Anyway that was it.
Later that day I wanted to do a home workout'
I started with clean and press
135 x 10 strict warmup
185 x 5 strict
205 x 3 strict
235 x 1 push press here on out
255 x 1
275 x 1 which is a PR for the clean also
285 x 1 this was heavy as fuck. The clean was gettin shitty and the press had a slight sticking point. Nasty rep but a new personal record
now I wanted to try 295 so I waited a good 7 or 8 min and drank some water
295 x 0 I barley got the clean and I kind of hurt a small muscle in my forearm. I tried pressing this fucker but I got stuck halfway and it was to heavy to even really try to hold there so I dumped it.
Next was power snatch
I did a set of 185 x 5
then 205 x 3
I could have gone heavier but I was smoked. I was pretty hot and in the middle of the afternoon so I called it a day. I think I have slightly gone overboard with my upper body pushing movements so I will lay off a de-load a bit. The problem is if I want to squat for the next week I have to clean the weight and do heavy front squats which is always harder than the air conditioned gym with a nice rack I set up on with propper grip, ect ect.
Weight is about 222-224 range after wake up.
This week I will let my body de load and get ready for next week when I start going really heavy.
my goals for the big four are as follows-
clean and press- 300
bench- 400
front squat- 405
squat- 545
deadlift- 675
Then I want to enter a strongman competition. They have one here in cali called the golden state challenge every mid April so that gives me 7 and half months to train. I will start building implements as soon as I have the money. Any advice on strongman would be greatly appreciated.
Also I am cutting my cycle short because my girlfriend thinks I am more aggressive so I have decided to train clean from here on out. She is my world so I can not sacrifice my relationship for better performance in the gym. Happy lifting!!!