Thursday, July 17, 2008
木曜日
This has got to be one of the best workout weeks I've had in a while. Haven't been drinking much. I give that as much credit as anything else. It amazing how productive I can be in a day when it doesn't include getting smished. So monday I bagged a new bench PR. Tuesday we weren't scheduled to do anything, but Mike had missed Monday so I decided to get out of bed and meet him in the morining and help him with his bench. He was about half an hour late, so I decided to do some extra shoulder work. I worked up to a standing overhead press of 225lb for a single. That's a pr for me, but I haven't really been working it all that hard. I've got to get my shoulders stronger and my form better for overhead pressing if I expect to do anything with strongman next year. I finished up with some heavy one hand dumbell clean and presses. These have got to be one of my favorite excersises because of the huge range of muscles that it works. You can just about do these with no weight and still be sweating your butt off after a couple of sets. Yesterday would normally have been our outside workout at my place but we decided to meet in the gym and do some squat work. I slept in. At noon I went in determined to do squats in my jeans and boots. Didn't even bring a shirt to change into so I went topless. I was dressed in exactly what you shouldn't wear to do a squat workout. All the same, I managed to work up to two sets of six with 405. Next I decided to pull some heavy weight off the safety pins from just below knee hight. Worked up to 405 for an easy three or four and decided to start doing singles and not count the weight as I stacked in on. My last attempts I added on 50 lbs. and missed twice. I thought it was around 515 just glancing at it (we're out of 45lb plates at 405 so I was using smaller weights). After a lot of screaming, grunting, and straining I added it up to 575. I was pissed I couldn't get it, but 525 went pretty easily. I'm still gunning to pull 500 off the floor by the end of the year. Today was speed bench day. 8 sets of three with 255. Now I'm ready to rest a couple o days.
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That's a hulluva lotta weight. Hey don't they make four ply squat suits outta denim, or something like it. Right, and i purchased (and recently tanned, with Steph's help) a bottle of Stone's new anniversasarry beer. It's a "bittersweet chocolate oatmeal stout." Damn good, that, and clocks in at nearly 10%. Riught and this IPA is merely to make sure the stout made it down OK. Nastrovya.
Dang. Why don't you put a couple of those back for the road trip?
Yeah, i'll hafta snag some more of that one. Happy dreams afterwards. You guys have a date o' arrival yet?
I think we might be leaning toward the end of the month. I've pretty much blown my entire financial aid on the important stuff you know... eating.. and I had to get a good solid paycheck coming in. So, Im thinking the week of the 24th sometime would be good.
By the way, what was your new bench PR there g? wonderin..
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