Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
Same old same old.
Inverted Ring Rows x 30
w DB bench press 105's x 20
w Ring Pull aparts x 25
x 5 sets

Rear delt flies 30's x 30
w SA Tricep pressdowns x 25 @ 50
X 3 sets


Thursday, June 21st, 2012
CRAZY HOT AND HUMID TODAY.
Deadlifts(floor): 155x4, 245x3, 335x2, 425x2, 515x1, 605x1, (add belt) 695 x 1 x 4, 515x8
GHD Sit ups: 3 sets of 15
* Deadlifts felt pretty decent today.  I was hoping to be able to do around 5-6 singles with it...but I wasn't feeling very strong off of the floor....what else is new?




Friday, June 22nd, 2012

Inverted Ring Rows x 30
w DB bench press 105's x 20

w Ring Pull aparts x 25
x 4 sets

Rear delt flies 30's x 30
w SA Tricep pressdowns x 25 @ 50

X 2 sets

I saw an acupuncture specialist today.  Made my shoulder feel a little bit better...but not much better.  We'll see how much improvement comes over the weekend.  THE BENCH PRESS BECKONS!!

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
Front Squats: 145x5, 235x3, 325x2
Back Squats: 415x2, 465x1, 505x1, 555x1, 595x1, (add belt) 635 x 1 x 8 sets


**I usually put my belt on at anything after 560...but i felt like seeing how 595 felt without a belt.....and it felt crisp. :)
I was supposed to do singles with 620 today...but i really dislike any weight between 610-630 because in my mind, it's not quite heavy enough that I feel I can get psyched up for it or tell myself it's heavy weights...and yet it's not light enough that I can take it for granted and it'll bury me in the hole if i don't stay tight...
So instead I skipped it and went to 635( i kind of wanted to max out today and see if I could get around 675-690..but that would have been pretty stupid...so I bumped myself a week ahead of schedule.....which means that on Tuesday, I'll be doing 620 for triples.  This also, gains me another week in my training cycle for the competition in september...(i have an extra week to cycle back or take off if need be).  
IT ALSO MEANS THAT NEXT SATURDAY I GET TO START DOING SINGLES WITH SOME FUN WEIGHT!!!!!


On Thursday, I tried playing around with the kettle bells a little bit.  I think Kettlebells are something that I would like to get extremely good at.  I saw Chris Dufferin do a set of bottom up presses with 2-poods in each hand and thought that that was pretty damn cool.  I would like to at some point in my life to do some ridiculous things w KB's as well....  here's a vid of me fuckin around with some 106lb snatches.  I need to tighten up my technique, relax a little better..and focus.  I think I could have done about 20 here if I would have focused on squeezing the bell on the way down.....  I think 30 plus would be pretty damn cool to be able to do. In the Kettlebell world this is nothing special...but it was my first time trying it, and I'm not going to be spending any time focusing on it w a comp on the horizon...  so it's simply a start for now...