Tuesday/wednesday

Tuesday - night off

Knew I was cutting this one kind of close, and went a bit too hard on Monday, woke up at 6am with a burning stomach, and a fairly nasty flu bug I've caught before, butt kicked me for a bit, but just stayed chill and it went away. Rested a fair bit, went in and did a bunch of nothing, but still went in. Megan was really good to me, and got me neo citran, and in general played nurse for me, and it really helped.

Wednesday - pulls

feeling better, knew to watch out for straining too much tonite on limit weights. If I had this one to do over, I think I would have done a bit more for my hips during my warm up, the gyms been packed lately, and you've gotta grab a bar and platform and get going or people are going to use it.

warm up
dynamic work
50 hyper extension
50 face pulls
25 swings

Sumo deadlift with 45 lb chains
315x1, 365x1,405,1, 455x1, 495x1, 525x1, 435x1, 435x1, 445x1, 455x1 - stopped there, felt like enough work to stay on the positive side. 525 was a slight grind, felt like 545 would have gone up depending on psyche today, that's a good sign for me I think. I really like the chains, they force me to kind of develop really good technique on reps that feel a lot more like meet reps, but I find just don't drain you as much. For me they reinforce staying in good position off the floor, which I tend to panic on and rush, then the weight gets heavier towards lockout, and I strain very hard to remain neutral. I'm working all the time to be able to get my hips lower for my start, but overall, this is something i can work on and develop and technique should be good enough to hit my planned meet attempts.

Had a really fun night working with the guys, Jeremy and Andrew and Chris Hebb all had very good nights, Dash and Megan I'm pretty sure did great, Cameron is fighting over training like crazy right now and should be fully peaked for the meet provided he can grind until he gets there... which he will. Jordan worked hard tonite, I should have slowed him down a bit, his overall forward hunch is something he really gravitates towards on his deadlifts, I need to slow things down with him... it's very difficult, as he's just having a hard time on co ordination, and I'm not sure what i'm missing... he'll easily PR at the meet on all lifts, but he's nowhere near even challenging himself in my opinion, we just need to iron out his stiffness, which combined with sitting in class all day, then most likely video games and tv most nights, is actually really hard, but his squats and benches look great, so we'll teach him how to pull sooner or later, lots of talent.