Got to train a couple awesome people before I trained. Kenny Dusseault is just a beast. He goes through his workout in 45 minutes, and it takes me twice as long to do the same thing. I have him right now doing roughly the program Mark made for me, but with higher volume on the main lifts, and Kenny is handling it like a champ. I may have given him a cold/flu... but he's a gamer, has an extremely high work capacity, and was already extremely well trained before I did anything. All I really do is make small corrections as I learn Kennys technique. I've found if you watch someone long enough, you can figure a lot out. This summer when I was killing myself to re learn my own squat, I'd watch tons of youtube videos of the highest level guys, then I'd spend some time watching some videos I have of Willie Albert, where I could take the camera angles I personally wanted. I find Kenny and Willie have very similar styles, and do a more true olympic squat. Tonite, Kenny was looking awesome.
Kathleen Murphy, is someone I just feel preivelaged to get to work with. She's lost over 100lbs in order to be able to give her brother a kidney, and she's still going. I agreed to train her if she took the 90 day health challenge, I haven't put her in yet, as we're deciding which products she wants to use, but we'll get around to it. My philosophy is to do as little as possible to make progress, and righ now we're starting with eliminating dairy and sugar, Kathleen keeps a food diary that i'll be going over sometime soon.
She lifts extremely heavy, and we've lightened her up a bit, and we've been working on her form, and then the numbers will come back. Today we did military press, and a lot of back work.
Tonite, I'm still feeling over trained, so I went in with good intentions, but called things off mid bench workout. It was just feeling too hard, and that's a good time to stop. Still put a bit of work in, happy about that.
Went: Bench
275x3,295x3, 315 x5, 255 +chains x2 sets of 5
did back work during Kathleens workout, light, but a lot of volume.
Going to have to back off for a bit, I may just do the sets without the chains for the rest of the week. would be a good idea, back off a bit before I start to fail reps.
Still pretty happy about the 315, I think I could have done 7 or 8, anymore and it would be hard to tell. But locking the weight out just feels easy to me, the chains have taken the hard part of the lift for me and made it pretty easy, now if it comes off my chest, which my benches all do, the lockout feels simple. I've adjusted my technique big time during this, and I've learned to drop my shoulders back and internally rotate my shoulders, getting my lats into the bench big time. Overall very happy. I'd like to test some big weights on Saturday, but I'm feeling a light volume day of triples with 285. I was supposed to do that with chains I think. I would have liked to do some triples with 320-330 or heavier, the 305 with chains last week felt amazing.
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