Good training day. Second week of racks squats, and I also added back work to the agenda. Stuck with 319 on the squats, but I increased the sets with my top weight, moving it up to three sets. I’ll feel this tomorrow. Finished with biceps and forearm work. I’m feeling like I actually workout now, getting nice and tight during the training, and the next day feeling sore but not crippled. Monday I’ll be back down at the track to peel another layer of fat of this sexy body.

Ok, a little lax on the updates, right? Well, I have been very consistent in my training, but not my blogging, and very inconsistent on my eating habits. A little catch up:
Because of the pain in my IT bands, I have switched to heavy rack squats…I have started doing much light deep box squats on my deadlift day, just as a way to warm p for deads. Just doing heavy rack squats feels good, getting heavier weight on my back is a mental boost. I trained for the Nationals in Baton Rouge for an entire training cycle by doing no full squats, just racks, and didn’t even put gear on until 2-3 weeks out from the meet.
Deadlifts are going well. This is the first time in years that I have actually trained the deadlift, so any deadlifting is a plus for me. I should be back over 400 for reps in the next couple of weeks.
The Bench Press is my baby, and it’s coming along nicely. Slight shoulder pain, but not so much that I can’t ignore it. This week I hit an easy 297 for 5 reps (paused the last one), and then dropped down to 231 for 20 reps. One indication that my shoulder is close to normal is that I can do dips again, this week hitting 2 sets of 15. 5 weeks ago is was all I could do to even hold myself up on the bars, the shoulder didn’t want to support me. I modified how I was doing them so that I could some kind of range of motion, and now can do regular dips.

I finally got into the cardio part of my training. This past tuesday I hit 2 miles on the treadmill (quick walk at an incline), and this morning I went to the track and ran/walked …the running part had me hurting.

Ciao.

Ok workout today, wasn’t as psyched about it like I was last week, but it still went alright. I stayed at the same weight as last week, 374 x 3 reps. I somehow skipped a set, said he’ll with it, I’ll make up for it next week. Used too much of my back when pulling, not enough legs, will work on that next week as well. Sayanora.

The increased activity to which I’m subjecting myself (said tongue in cheek) is affecting my immune system. I caught some kind of 24 hour bug Thursday evening, lasting through Friday night, causing me to miss my bench workout. That sucked, because I was really looking forward to it, especially since I was going to wake up my oldest son to come workout with me. On Saturday I was in the woods all day with my brother in law, father in law, my son Garrett, and ten of his friends. Sunday I still wasn’t feeling the greatest, so I used that as an excuse to skip squats and just work biceps. To make up for this indiscretion, I hit a light chest, shoulders, and triceps workout today. Tomorrow I’ll keep active with some cardio and stretching. Wednesday I’ll be back at it heavy again with deadlifts. Ciao. (throwing some culture atchya, huh!)