Good training today. Felt strong on all lifts today. I worked up to 341 for an easy triple on the bench, worked with 80’s on db inclines, and used 80 pounds on dips today for 8 reps.

Keeping this short and sweet. Worked up to an easy triple with 330, pausing the last rep. Overall a good workout. Hit 8 reps with 70 lb.. on dips, no shoulder pain. Pushing Courtney harder than he wants to work, he keeps using every excuse in the world not to increase his work load, and sometimes we have had to ridicule him into the work. He still has not finished a workout with us. Timbo is not really pushing himself either, and since they have been training together, it’s easy to see why they struggled at the end of their training cycle for the nationals. You have to push yourself so that body can adapt and overcome. Every injury they have been complaining about I have had as well. Rotator Cuff, elbow, kidney stone, hell, I have even pulled my hamstring twice in the last 12 weeks, but kept it to myself and kept plugging away at it. Add in the track work that has been keeping my legs fatigued all week. In order to get back to where I was, I have to get back to what I was doing to be successful, and we are still not at the total workload we used to handle.

Squat day. I showed up a little early so that I could get stretched and warmed up before the others were ready. This way I could do heavy rack squats, and by the time they were ready, I could start high bar squats with them. I took my high bars as deep as I could, and evidence of this was the fact that I ripped out the ass of my shorts on my 2nd set. From that set on I just kept trying to get deeper so that I could hear them rip more and more. After squats we did some 1 legged squats. Talk about a burn. I haven’t do e these before, but I think we will be doing these instead of leg extensions.

Back up to 319 x 5 reps today. Easy, but I was aching more than usual in the left elbow and shoulder, plus for some reason hurting at the insertion point of the upper right bicep. Might be the weighted dips stretching that area. Since I love dips so much, rather than cut them out I just cut out the extra weight this week. Bodyweight holding at 214. No drastic drop in weight. Skipped running yesterday, but we’ll be back at it tomorrow morning.

Good day of training. Finally started training with over 400 on the deadlift. Hit 407 for an easy double. I remember when I did that for 10 reps back in the day. Oh well, it’s coming back.

Wow! Long time no update, huh? Well, things haven’t been too bad. Feeling strong on everything and my cardio is getting better as well. On the bench press I hit an easy 319 for 5 reps friday before last, then backed it down last week to 297 to recycle. Still doing rack squats, hitting 407 for 5 2 weeks in a row, then dropping down last week to do some full range Hatfield squats.

We are still hitting the track for 2 miles on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. However yesterday I went to the gym instead and hit 30 minutes on the treadmill and then 30 minutes on the bike. My bodyweight has been fluctuating between 215 and 219, so that has been a sticking point for me, but this past 7 days or so I have been dropping again, and I’m refocused on hitting 200.

Deadlifts are up tomorrow. I’ll see about putting some videos back up this week, at least of my deads and bench.