Saturday bench

Went in out of habit, but happy I did, still feeling very under the weather, but went in, and took Jordans advice, to just work up to something half decent, and leave feeling better than when you walked in. Right now everything in the training room is hard, light is hard, heavy is hard, confidence not as high as I'd like it to be. I let it happen, missed something along the way, lots of people are just fine right now, I'm pretty sure I can pull out of it, today was one on the plus side. Everything felt like work, but got it done.

Bench
225 +chains 3x8
135 with chains 5x10
-i'm trying not to be embarassed that I'm using a plate, big deal.

Chins
30

-haven't lost much on my pull ups, I've gained some weight, and I could have gotten to 15 in a row, that's good enough to confirm all the pull downs haven't made my back weaker or anything. I still feel these too much in my arms for my liking, I think I'll benefit more from pull downs for a while.

Willie basically got me to do Ed coans deadlift routine, so that will be 4 back days a week, and I think he wants back on the heavy squat day too. I woke up feeling pretty rocked after just going through the motions last night. Haven't done bentover rows in a while, so I'm looking forward to putting a bit more on those, that circuit is rough though.

Jeremy was in tonite, he's really loving the strongman, I'd like to support him more, but not until summer am I really interested in getting back into strongman, I've got more than enough on my plate right now, but I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to have to bring the prowler back in pretty soon, just 5 trips on upper body days would go a fairly long way I think for me right now. I feel like a trip right now would make me die, so it's probably what I need the most when I stop and think about it. I don't want to do reps right now, so I probably need to do them. I was reading something interesting in a Mike Tucshcherer article that he trains his explosive speed and grinding strength, and you need both of them. I think my grinding strength is a little down Paul has tremendous grinding strength, and is now getting his explosive strength higher, I'm interested to see how that will affect things. It's too bad it's getting to the point where strongman for him will be starting up, I would have liked to see him get his squat up to 650, which I think if he ever took 2-3 months and squatted 3x a week, he'd do it.

If I had to descibe it, I'd say Pauls programs make your whole body strong, and Willies programs make the powerlifts strong... which will also make your whole body strong.