Thursday upper Friday squat

Thursday
-still can't bench, but there's a strongman competition coming up, and there's a choice of a 220 or 250 log. I think I can do a rep or two with 250. If not something like 6 reps with 220 would be a decent goal for me. I'm fairly shaky on these right now, so I'm really hoping to make some fast improvements, my strict press is good for me, I've done around 275 in the gym, but not ever really over 235 in competition. My plan is to do reps 2 days, and one day a week really push the clean and press each rep. I feel capable of 250 for 3 reps, but I have to transfer to a push press. One thing I'm going to change right away is I've generally faced the mirror for most of my military, so I'm going to immediately start facing away. I actually find this really hard so I'm going to really attack it not so much to train the strength, I'm just more practicing it, so doing overhead 3x a week and developing my shoulder flexibility, and general balance, and learning how to perform in this lift. I bought the log to eliminate my fear of wrecking a log in training, so that should help. The gym is actually fairly cool about dropping weights, I'd rather not push it.

log press
195x5,3,2

-just getting used to the weight again.
-Going to do 10 reps tomorrow again, trying for heavier weights. It's 90 second events I believe, so I'm just going to learn how to do a rep, take 5-7 breaths, do a rep, step back, take 5-8 breaths, do a rep. I'll watch my timing in a couple videos. I've always been fairly good with the cleans, so I'm not too worried, just need to raise up my work capacity now.

did some upper back, lots of band pulls aparts, and going to start adding in chins as soon as my arm is feeling better.

Friday - front squats
-went in with a plan to do 10 singles with 315, but by the 5th single I was bored, so I slowly worked up, went up to 90%, didn't hit any serious grind. I think I can do 10 singles with 365 fairly soon. The closer I can get that number to 400 for 10 singles the sooner I'll squat 455. I think I can do it, I felt like I could have done 400 today. I've got as long as it takes to push this number up, there's always going to be lots of meets, and I don't need to rush anything. One thing I like about front squats is they really enforce an upright torso, I'll know I'm ready to hit some big weights when I find it hard to sit up out of bed. I actually cramp up from it. I'm not really sure whether to work on that, or just let it happen.
315x5
355x3
365x1
315x1

- think I'll go up around 385 next week, or maybe next session. My light workout is 315x10 singles if I'm ever really beat up, I did 275 for around 10 singles a few weeks before I hit 415. My knee felt kind of funny, but loosened up as I got going. Really strained my thumb of all things, I'm hoping it doesn't mess things up for me tomorrow.

tomorrow I'm going to set up a mini events day, and with the closeness of the meet I may not actually get to train with any equipment, but I can do quite a bit, I'm going to be working my log press a ton. Another thing Is I'm going to set up some timed holds, just to get used to those again, toughen my hands up. Then do a set of zercher squats with 300 pounds, and just get those muscles used to doing work, and then set up a farmers/prowler/sled pull medley. They haven't announced the medley, but it's easy to guess it's going to be really hard, probably have farmers walks in it, some kind of sled pull as it's easy to load, and maybe a prowler push, or tire flip. I doubt they'd do an atlas stone cary after a rep event. I'm betting farmers, sled, something that's going to take a really hard 90 seconds potentitally.

I'm in bad shape right now, thankfully I've been doing a few prowler pushes, looks like I'm going to have to immediately get those sessions up to 10 trips. I think I've got 6ish weeks to be ready, that's not very much time. I'd like to get my hands on an atlas stone just once before the competition, but I think I'm going to have to rely on coming in to this being able to go all out for 90 seconds on every event, they may be 75. But my grip has always been a strength, I'm going to log press my little heart out, stones are my favorite event, and I'm going to prepare myself for a really hard medley, put the time in on the prowler 3x a week, get up to 10 trips as quick as possible, and just come in as prepared as possible.