Day 52

Drove to Atlanta to see The Wiggles live in concert.  She had a great time.  Worth every penny.

Day 51

Log Press
empty x 10
(clean every rep from here on)
155 x 3
205 x 3
225 x 3 x 3

18" box squat
bar, 135, 225, 325, 425 x 5
505 x 1(wanted a double, but, not today, what the heck, I forget how whippy the bar gets when you get around 500 and up)
405 x 3 x 3 (tried to go fast)

DB rows
140 x 10 x 3

Left the gym sick, had to be a 100 plus in the steel shed, I know some of you young guys could have cranked this workout in 20 minutes, but I had to go home and pound some cold fluids and sit in the AC and think about who I am for a while...  Not gonna lie, got to close today.

Day 50

Good day at church. Got a great, long nap in. Ate good.  It was a good day, vacation is going splendidly.

Day 49

Ahh! Day one of my vacation, today was filled with plenty of food and a little swimming, and a good nap. Perfect Medicine. 

Day 48

Front squat
bar x a few
135 x 5
185 x 5
235 x 3
275 x 5,3,3,2,2

Log Bench Press
155 x 8
225 x 8
275 x 5
295 x 5
225 x 20

Barbell Rows
255 x 5
325 x 3,3,3,3

Whisman power shrugs
325 x 5,5,5,5

Day 47

One more day of work and my vacation begins. Can't come soon enough. 

Day 46

15" Romanian deadlifts in rack
bar x 10
135 x 5
225 x 5
315 x 5
405 x 2,3,3,4
really tried to keep a tight arch and feel this in the glutes and hamstrings

Push Jerk from rack
bar x ?
135 x 5,5
155 x 3,3
215 x 3,3,3,3

Barbell calf raise
245 x 12,12,12

Lat pulldown with various grips
222 x 7,7,7,7

240 stone no tacky x 2,2,2

Day 45

Drank a lot of calories today. Short nap, got a health assesment done.

BP - 132/80
Weight 305lbs.
Total Cholesterol - 245mg/dl
HDL - 42
LDL - 167
TriGL- 273mg/dl

numbers in red are high, but I'm not really worried about it right now. I do wish I had been loading up on the fish oil a couple of months prior to having this drawn.

Day 44

Axle Press off pins (like last week)
empty x 2 sets
96 x 10
162 x 3,3
182 x 10,10
172 behind neck x 10

Squat
330 x 3 x 10 sets (got very little sleep, took my time with these)

540 tire x 8,8

Day 43

We skipped church, took the long drive back from my parents house.  Ate some BBQ in Prattville, got to the AU about 6pm.  It was a good trip.

Back at it tomorrow.

Day 42

My Brother-in-law's father passed away today, early this morning. Just like that, everything changed.  He didn't waste his life, don't waste yours.

Day 41

Bench Press
bar x 10,10
135 x 10
185 x 8
225 x 8
250 x 5,5 (felt a twinge in my left pec, lightened up)
225 x 10

Squat
bar x 5,
135 x 5
225 x 5
275 x 3
315 x 5
335 x 5


Shrugs
315 x 8
405 x 8
495 x 8


Push Press 135 x 10, 185 x 5, 225 x 3
DB Tricep ext 40 x 12,12
DB curls  45 x 12

Day 40

Took the long drive up highway 82 across the great state of Alabama back to my hometown. Gonna convalesce for a few days and get a visit in on my old hometown gym tomorrow. 

Day 39

Warm up with bar, lots of compound movements.

Push Jerk off boxes
205 x 3 x 5

Front Squat
135 x 10, 185 x 10,10

Deadlift
295 x 3, 315 x 3, 365 x 3, 385 x 3, 405 x 3, 425 x 3, 455 x 3

Pulldowns 165 x 10, 198 x 12,12

Stone trainer one motion -  170 x 5,5,5

Day 38

Got a short nap, ran some errands, ate a chinese buffet, already looking forward to tomorrow training.

Day 37

Standing Axle Press off pins about chin high
empty x 10,10
86 x 10, 10
152 x 10
172 x 10,10
152 behind the neck x 10

Squat
110 x 10
174 x 10
242 x 10
308 x 3,3,3,3,3,3,3 (30 secs rest b/w sets)

540 tire flip x5,5,5,5

low cable row
90 x 15
140 x 15,15,15

Hot as blazes, sweated like I was in a sauna

Day 36

Had to work today, just ate my protein and took a nap. Wife left town with little lady to visit her parents so I'm a bachelor for a while.  Bachelorhood is overrated, miss my girls.

Day 35

My training is now going to weedays only. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with maybe and extra workout in there somewhere.  My weekends are just to valuable to go to the gym and wreck myself for the rest of the weekend, I need to be a daddy and husband and take care of things at home. So today I just ran some errands, did some yard work and took a nap.  It was a good day.

Day 34

I barely have the energy to type this...

Log Press
empty x a bunch x 2
155 x 3,3
205 x 2
225 x 2
250 x 2 (Hooty Hoo!)
180 x 10

deadlift
225 x 2,2
315 x 2
365 x 2
405 x 2
12" deadlift
455 x 2,
505 x 2
555 x 1(was supposed to be 2 but playing with this olympic crap has left me weak)

650lb tire flip x 10

DB rows 120's x 5,5,5,5

I can't tell you how much I sweated, but between the heat and the workout, I'm wore out.

The prep work is finished... Now to start training.

Day 33

Alarm didn't go off, so I slept in today...  I'm better for it. 

Me and little girl went back to the pool today.  We swam, she drank half the pool. It was a good day. Top it off with a family walk after my wife's sizzling fajitas for dinner.  

Other than that, work is kicking my tail. 

That's all I got. 

Day 32

Clean and Jerk (working on my clean)
Bar x ?
135 x I don't know what I'm doing
185 x 3
205 x 1
225 x 1
255 x missed the clean three times
brought it back down and fooled with some lighter weight, but I just suck at the Olympic lifts.
This whole sequence did not go well.

Overhead squat
broomstick x 3,3
bar x 3
115 x 1
135 x 1
165 x 1

Front squat
185 x 3
225 x 3
255 x 3
275 x 1,1,1

Super gripper work x several sets

Day 31

Went swimming with the little lady and the cousins.

Ate like a champ at Beef O' Brady's. Going to bed super early since wife is having the girls over.

Day 30

Bench Press
bar x lots of warming up
135 x 8
155 x 8
185 x 8
225 x 5
245 x 3
275 x 1
295 x 1
315 x 1 (ease breezy, nice since I haven't benched in months)

squat to 15.5" box
bar x 5
135 x 5
225 x 5
300 x 5,5,5  (did these as fast as possible, box was really a depth gauge, never really sat on it)

stone trainer (one motion)
170 x 5
195 x 5
240 stone no tacky x 3 singles (not one motion)

Day 29

Church, big lunch, big nap.  Perfect day.  

Got out with little girl and wife and did a little yard clean up.  Got the stones good and pressure washed, I'll let 'em dry, do some patching. and they'll be ready to seal. 

It was a good day. Training tomorrow. 

Day 28

Hot humid day at the gym.  Just didn't have the time today.

Log Press
empty x 5,5
155 x 3,3
205 x 1, 6 (tried to go for as many as possible, sad this was as many as possible, did one to prime the pumps)

Frame deadlift
260 x 5, 440 x 5, 540 x 5

Turned unloading the frame into a medley, took more out of me than it should have.

Loaded a few stones up on the trailer brought them home to pressure wash and seal, gonna work on making a honest to goodness set of stones.  Rolling the stones up on the trailer was half a workout in and of itself.

Day 27

Took a nap. Finished the work week. Ready for tomorrow. 

Day 26

Bump / Hang / and Full cleans

bar x infinity
135 x a lot
185 x ~6-8
Once I get warmed up, catching it in the rack poistion is getting much better. Slowly it is almost as if I'm teaching an old dog new tricks.

front squat
185 x 3
225 x 3
245 x 3
265 x 3

Deadlift all singles
295 x 3
365 x 3
435 x 4 ( these were way slower than normal, back was taxed from the clean practicing)

Lat pull downs
175 x 8
222 x 8,8

DB curls x too embarrassed to say x 2 sets

Went to the mexican restaurant with the family, got the chicken fajitas, ate big.

One more thing, Saturday I will not touch a barbell, Strongman events only... This may become the norm...

Day 25

Happy 4th of July!

How crappy is it that we have a random day off in the middle of the week.

Hung some pictures for my wife. Our daughter cried most of the day out of boredom and shear frustration. Then we ate pork chops and went to the fireworks show and are very tired and are going to bed too late.. That is all.

Day 24

My heart just wasn't in training today.
Behind the neck lockouts like last time  after a long warm up
135 x 5,5
155 x 5
185 x 5

log bench press
175 x 10
225 x 10
285 x 10
305 x 10

 all I had in me today.

Day 23

My back is super clamped up, work was difficult, wife is sick and has a fever, daughter exhausting every ounce of patience we have...  pretty much a standard day.

On the bright side is a brisk and chilly 96F outside, amazing what a huge relief it is compared to the low 100's.

I did get a short nap today which I think helped. We'll see how training goes tomorrow. May have to work around this back thing.

Day 22

Feel like I've been hit by a truck, plus with the heat the house is barely cool.

Wowzers I'm out of shape. To top it all off, my little munchkin is sick and has not made it easy to be a parent today.  God bless her...