Burritos and Barbells- 3M Training Log

[_3M_]

I officially have my eyes set on one in December...was originally planning August, but my wife and I decided to change my son's school, and it's start date forced me to change a vacation week....kinda sucks...but my schedule makes it hard to lock anything in stone, since I work graveyard and have mon/tues as my days off...

Awesome bro. Well you are making some awesome progress so whenever you decide on a meet in sure you will be set to hit some huge PRs.

Nice squat training man, those rack pulls are coming along real nicely.

Thanks Chris. Now it's a matter of being able to pick it up from the ground lol

You're a fukn beast!! Looking forward to seeing that 600 off the floor!

Haha thanks 5, I appreciate it bro.

Is the plan to take the rack pulls one notch lower each time (or something like that)?

That's sort of what I've been doing unfortunately the rack that I used is set on the lowest setting, I may do that with blocks though my gym does have various sized blocks.

 

[TenaciousA]

Is the plan to take the rack pulls one notch lower each time (or something like that)?

Good plan. Hope this immensely helps.

 

[UncleAl]

Yea, the old school method of using progressively lower blocks can be very productive. I've known guys to start with their goal weight at 12" and work their way down to the floor 1" at a time. Haven't seen that in years though. I think reverse bands have taken over.

 

[_3M_]

Good plan. Hope this immensely helps.

Yea, the old school method of using progressively lower blocks can be very productive. I've known guys to start with their goal weight at 12" and work their way down to the floor 1" at a time. Haven't seen that in years though. I think reverse bands have taken over.

I'll be starting another cycle of Bully Yoga so I may try that with the block pulls. I'm really excited to start this prep and buckle down and get serious.

 

[_3M_]

Meet Prep

Bully Yoga Week 1 Day 1

Deadlift 15x2

Hip circle warm up (lateral shuffels, bw squats, abductions)

Tried out the new Rogue Ohio Deadlift bar

135x10

225x8

315x5

365x1

405x1

455x1

495 10x2

Double Paused Bench

135x10

185x10

225x4 (lost count and did 4 by accident but moved really fast)

245x5

245x5

245x5

245x5


Recap
I had to cut the workout short because I go out of work late and had family stuff, so I went into the gym rushed to begin with. Sets 8-10 were almost consecutive and still moved fast, I was feeling great going into the gym today and when I realized what time it was and I was only half way through I just went into supersonic mode and rushed everything. I cut the deadlifts off at the 10th set and knocked out the double paused bench out super quick (@PillarofBalance should I finish off the rest tomorrow or just move on?). Not an ideal training day considering how good I was feeling but Im glad I was able to get even a little work in.

 

[PillarofBalance]

I think you still had a great training day. Don't worry about what you missed. Just keep moving forward.

 

[Kid Portugal]

Meet Prep

Bully Yoga Week 1 Day 1

Deadlift 15x2

Hip circle warm up (lateral shuffels, bw squats, abductions)

Tried out the new Rogue Ohio Deadlift bar

135x10

225x8

315x5

365x1

405x1

455x1

495 10x2

Double Paused Bench

135x10

185x10

225x4 (lost count and did 4 by accident but moved really fast)

245x5

245x5

245x5

245x5


Recap
I had to cut the workout short because I go out of work late and had family stuff, so I went into the gym rushed to begin with. Sets 8-10 were almost consecutive and still moved fast, I was feeling great going into the gym today and when I realized what time it was and I was only half way through I just went into supersonic mode and rushed everything. I cut the deadlifts off at the 10th set and knocked out the double paused bench out super quick (@PillarofBalance should I finish off the rest tomorrow or just move on?). Not an ideal training day considering how good I was feeling but Im glad I was able to get even a little work in.

nice work here, how did you like using the ohio bar

 

[_3M_]

I think you still had a great training day. Don't worry about what you missed. Just keep moving forward.

Deadlifts felt great, probably the best and fastest 495 has ever moved.

nice work here, how did you like using the ohio bar

I liked it a lot to be honest. A little less whip then the Texas DL bar but other than that nothing very noticeable.

 

[UncleAl]

You're off to a strong start. How long is this cycle?

 

[TenaciousA]

You're off to a strong start. How long is this cycle?

Ditto x2.

 

[_3M_]

You're off to a strong start. How long is this cycle?

Ditto x2.

It will be about 16 weeks. I have to decide if I'll do IPL world's a month later, that turnaround period will be really short.

 

[_3M_]

Haven't logged much this week, I drove down south to spend the weekend with the gf. Training was shit all week. Hips were super tight on squat day (thursday), managed to hit 415 for my 1x3 set but it was ugly. I had POB message me and tell me how my squats were crap. Block pulls didn't go well either worked up to 545 for my 3 singles. And after the workout I had my girlfriend work on me (she's a physical therapy student) and she stretched me out and helped me do some mobility stuff, which immediately helped.

Yesterday's training.
Had to switch my days around because of my trip so did bench.

Bench 5x5

Band pull a parts and shoulder slaps as little warmup.

Bar x10

135x10

185x10

225x5

275x1

285x5

285x5

285x5

285x5

285x5

Paused squats 1x3

Hip circle lateral shuffles and bw squats, lacrosse ball.

Bar x10 (TX squat bar) not paused

135x5

235x5

285x3

325x3 paused (too easy)

375x3 (pr)

10% drop 3x3

345x3

345x3

345x3

Floor press/Rack press

Couldn't a good place to do floor presses so I had to combine it with rack press.

225x7 (rack was set to where my elbows were barely above the ground)

225x5

225x5

225x5

225x5

I finally ended up having a good workout, bench didn't go as well as I hoped but still pressed a decent amount of weight. Paused squats went and felt great I ended up moving my feet in a little and it made a hell of a difference. I guess I have been squatting wider than I am used to (not sure how I didn't notice before) but as soon as I moved my feet in it was immediate relief from my hips. The 375 felt easy and moved pretty fast, I felt like I could've done more but I decided to just leave it there. I figured it'd be safer to under shoot the RPE than overshoot it and somehow hurt myself.