Dec 20th week 2 day 1

Still fighting a cold, so this made high reps and overall energy a little tougher to find, I kinda whined, and the guys trained their asses off, so I did more than i would have without them.

Warm up - sauna hip stretch, to a couple body weight squats
-may need to do a more dynamic warm up tomorrow
Front squat
135 for a few
185x a few
225x1
- these are really weird, I basically just tighten up, and let the weight push me down, so these go slow and controlled down, and pretty quick up. I try to treat them all like they're 400.
275x1
315x1 - found it a little tricky to stay in good position, went up easy, felt moderate hard.

Back squat
225x5
275x5
315 4 sets of 9
Weight is easy, but right hip feeling too tight, should have gotten that loosened up in warm up, and reset. Breath is very low, i can't breathe out of my nose currently, and have had a cold through everything so far. Looking forward to it ending soon, I think my work outs with be much easier.

Bench
230 4x9
-keeping my elbows pinned and driving off my chest with my lats, finally figured that one out, and I understand the switch Kade made right before his bench got huge.

chin ups (24) lat pull downs (30) neck harness (45)

I like the neck harness, I want to pull mine back a bit, and finally even out my spine. That'll be cool, along with high rep shrugs, I'm going to start doing these every day. I've been doing them with a band lately.

Correcting your posture can get annoying, sometimes when I sit now, it hurts to slouch or sit up straight, and I'm very uncomfortable all the time. It's one of the rarer side I guess.

Sitting around 235 right now... Just hitting that level where I'll be watching my carbs, and just adding in protein for a bit. protein and fats, but with my high bcaa consumption, I'll be able to absorb a lot more protein than usual. My muscles filled out really fast, and the high volume is helping tremendously. Looking more like a smaller Kade, but looking forward to filling out to his weight class again. Being a semi lean 245 for Nationals would be pretty cool, but anywhere between 230-245 will be fine, and I'd like to aim for a 585-400-675 total, and setting small goals hasn't really been working, but at least when I have big goals, they seem to get me through meets better. I've gotta squeeze in some deadlift work, but I'll wait a bit, I don't mind pulling a low conventional deadlift at my next meet to get me doing better there. I'd like to work in some hook grip, I feel it's a better way to deadlift for me if I can handle it.