Archives For Workout Log

Dragon Flags

  • 5

Foam Rolling

Ab Wheel

  • 6

Band Pull Aparts

Shoulder Dislocations

  • 10

L-Sit Chin Ups

With Fatgripz.

  • Body weight (~200 lb): 6

Breathing Paused Low Bar Squat

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused Low Bar Squat

Belted up at 460 lb.

  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1

Low Bar Squat

  • 500 lb: 1
    • Bar rolled forward a little, making it harder than it should have been.

Low Bar Squat - Reverse Bands

  • 550 lb: 1
    • Black bands. About 80 lb of assistance at the bottom, so the weight throughout the entire range of motion is roughly 470-550 lb.
    • Felt very explosive. Decided to go for a 1RM.

Low Bar Squat

  • 530 lb: 1 * PR!
    • +5 lb 1RM from last week!
    • Felt easy to unrack after doing those reverse band squats. Coming up was a different story. It was a bit of a grind, and a little lopsided, but I got it.
  • 430 lb: 5
    • +5 lb from last week.

Face Pulls

  • 70 lb: 12
  • 90 lb: 10

Reverse Grip Bench Press

Paused until work sets.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 5
  • 230 lb: 3
  • 280 lb: 1
  • 330 lb: 1
  • 370 lb: 1

Reverse Band Reverse Grip Bench Press

  • 410 lb: 1
    • Black bands
    • About 55 lb of resistance (assistance?) at the bottom. So the the weight ranges from ~360 lb at the bottom to 410 lb at the top.

Reverse Grip Bench Press

  • 395 lb: MISSED
    • Nope. Blah.
  • 325 lb: 3,3,3,3,3
    • Usually I do 3x3, but decided to do 5 sets because I felt strong, and I skipped my work sets last week.

Dragon Flag

  • 5

Foam Rolling

Ab Wheel

  • 6

Band Pull Aparts

Shoulder Dislocations

  • 10

L-Sit Chin Ups

Rogue Cannonballs.

  • Body weight (~200 lb): 6

Front Squat

Beltless up to 280 lb.

Paused up to 330 lb.

Paused again at 280  lb.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 5
  • 230 lb: 3
  • 280 lb: 1
  • 330 lb: 1
  • 370 lb: 1
  • 395 lb: X
    • Close, but bar rolled off my shoulders :/
  • 400 lb: X
    • Gah
  • 285 lb: 3,3,3,3,3
    • Paused.
    • +2.5 lb from last week.3 sets instead of 5.

High Bar Squat

  • 285 lb: 15
    • Drop set. Performed after last set of front squats.

Clean & Press

My "cleans" are really muscle cleans.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 100 lb: 5
  • 140 lb: 3
  • 165 lb: 3
  • 190 lb: 3

Putting away plates from the previous day became a part of my warm up.

500 lb

Dragon Flag

  • 5

Foam Rolling

Ab Wheel

  • 6

Band Pull Aparts

Shoulder Dislocations

  • 10

L-Sit Chin Ups

With blue Fat Gripz.

  • Body weight (~200 lb): 6

Breathing Paused Low Bar Squat

Breathing paused squats up to 320 lb. Exhaled fully at the bottom, followed by 1 breath.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused Low Bar Squat

Belted up at 460 lb.

  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1

Low Bar Squat

  • 500 lb: 1
  • 400 lb: 3,3,3
    • +5 lb from last week.

High Bar Squat

  • 400 lb: 3,3,3
    • +5 lb from last week.

Low Bar Squat

  • 360 lb: 5
    • +5 lb from last week.

High Bar Squat

  • 360 lb: 8
    • +5 lb from last week.

Face Pulls

  • 70 lb: 12
  • 90 lb: 10

Reverse Grip Bench Press

Paused until work sets.

Going to skip out on doing regular grip bench presses this week. Pecs have been sore, and might be affecting me hitting PRs on Fridays.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 5
  • 230 lb: 3
  • 280 lb: 1
  • 330 lb: 1
  • 370 lb: 1
    • A bit of a struggle.
  • 305 lb: 5,5,5,5,5
    • +5 lb from last week.
    • Missed on the 6th rep on the last set. Still got 5x5 though.

Dragon Flags

  • 5

Foam Rolling

Ab Wheel

  • 5

Band Pull Aparts

Shoulder Dislocations

  • 10

L-Sit Chin Ups

With Rogue Cannon balls.

  • Body weight (~200 lb): 6

Breathing Paused High Bar Squat

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused High Bar Squat

Belted up at 460 lb.

  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1

High Bar Squat - Reverse Bands

  • 500 lb: 1
    • Green bands.
  • 550 lb: X
    • Black bands.

High Bar Squat

  • 505 lb: X
  • 425 lb: 2
    • +5 lb from last week, but only 2 reps. Don't think I'm recovered from yesterday.

Mat Pulls

hook grip thumb damage

7 mats.

Hook grip.

Wore my Vibrams.

  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3
  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1
  • 510 lb: 1
  • 550 lb: 1
  • 600 lb: X,1
    • Got it half way the first try. Pissed me off enough to make the 2nd attempt.
    • The pressure of the bar + weights along with pressing into my thumbnail with my index finger ended up cutting my thumbs.
  • 500 lb: 5
    • Straps.

Dragon Flags

  • 5

Foam Rolling

Ab Wheel

  • 5

Band Pull Aparts

Shoulder Dislocations

  • 10

L-Sit Chin Ups

With Rogue Cannon balls.

  • Body weight (~200 lb): 6

Breathing Paused Low Bar Squat

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 10
  • 230 lb: 5
  • 320 lb: 3

Paused Low Bar Squat

Belted up at 460 lb.

  • 410 lb: 1
  • 460 lb: 1

Low Bar Squat

  • 500 lb: 1

Low Bar Squat - Reverse Bands

Picked up some giant elastic bands to try out.

The green bands are supposed to have a resistance of 65 lb, but two of them couldn't even hold up an empty bar. The black band has a resistance rating of 100 lb.

I tried to set them up in a way so that the bands would offer as little assistance as possible.

  • 530 lb: 1
    • Green bands.
  • 550 lb: 1
    • Black bands.

Low Bar Squat

  • 525 lb: 1 * PR!
    • +5 lb 1RM
    • Felt easy to unrack after doing those reverse band squats.
  • 425 lb: 5
    • +5 lb from last week.

Face Pulls

  • 70 lb: 12
  • 90 lb: 10

Reverse Grip Bench Press

Paused until work sets.

  • 45 lb: 10
  • 140 lb: 5
  • 230 lb: 3
  • 280 lb: 1
  • 330 lb: 1
  • 355 lb: 1,2
    • First set: slipped on the 2nd rep
    • Second set: re-racked the bar. The 2nd rep was tough and I was pretty sure that I couldn't get the 3rd rep.