Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Press - Apr 30

Warming back up to everything after 5 days off with the valley crud. Still a little wheezy and dizzy. Press day - easiest day of the week though.

Press
10x85/90/115

5 rounds, no timer
10x 85#
10x Y-pulls

7.5 hours - 2230/0600. 15 minutes total, PE: 6. 230/15.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Ca - Apr 24

Buy in
Hang power clean 4x10 @ 95/115/135/155
13 mins.

Main set
5x10 on the HT timer
Assisted chins @ +25#
Press @ 115////105
13 mins.

Cash out
Row 1k
4.30

7 hours - 2300/0600. 30 minutes total, PE: 7. 52 hours.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Off Schedule - Deads - Apr 22

Buy in
4x max reps FtB, .45 RI
4 mins.

Deadlift
10x RDL @135
225#x5/275x3/x4/x5/225x7
10 mins.

Used cross grip for the 2nd and 3rd sets at 275. Hands felt weak.

4 rounds, 1 min RI, stretching
Seated Calf x12 @ 70
Standing Calf x max reps @ 210.

Feels like there's a tear deep in my right interior gastroc. Maybe it's still the knee issue yanking on stuff down in there. No pain in the MDL from the deads today ... yet. Cross your fingers, and legs, people.

7.5 hours - 2230/0600. 21 minutes total, PE: 6. 30 hours.

Bonus Day - Apr 21

Pull, the minimum

6 rounds, on the HT timer
Max rep chins
--
4 rounds, same timer
Max rep wide grip curl @ 100#

7 hours - 2300/0600. 13 minutes total, PE: 6. 48 hours.

Friday, April 19, 2013

EXP 24 Pull ME Everything Changes - Apr 19

Supposed to be a Bench for max reps at light weight day, but without a spotter, I'm just working at bBW. And, with all the pulling, it's more of a Pull ME day

5 rounds, max reps, HT timer


4x25#//4x20#//3x20#
6 mins.

Bench
5x max reps @ 225, HT timer
7/8/9/5/4
7 mins.

Single arm cable pull downs
4 rounds, 1 min RI
7x90/4x120/7x90/11x75
7 mins.

7.5 hours - 2230/0600. 21 minutes total, PE: 7. 48 hours. 231/15.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

EXP 23 Press - Apr 17

Today's an approximation of an ME GtO, as I can't really move my right knee.

No buy in (FtB)

Press
Rx: GtO @ 150/165/175/185/200
Actual: 6 rounds, on the HT timer
7x max reps Y-Pulls
6x max reps Press @ 135/145/155 (4's)//145/135

8.5 - 1 hours - 2230/0700. 16 minutes total, PE: 7. 48 hours.

Monday, April 15, 2013

EXP 22 Pay the TaxMan in Squats - Apr 15

Buy in
3x10
Extensions @ 200
Leg curl @ 110
5 mins.

...leg curls still feel like the knife behind the right knee.

Squat
Rx: 5x5 or 3x5 at
230/250/270/285/305
Actual: barx10/135x10/185x7/225x5/245x5/275x5 (form broke down here)/225x5
16 mins.

Back squat just doesn't feel right at all. I hindu stretched easily between sets, but put any weight on my back and everything just locks up. Anyway, opted for form rather than going with the posted loads and doing idiot reps.

PS. This note from the day after. Woke up and hobbled about, my vastus medialis was locked up, not from overwork from the light-low volume extensions, but from straining to keep my ACL in position(?). I'm thinking of hi-bar squats and front squats only for the duration of this EXP cycle. I believe in the back squat, but low bar is not agreeing with me.

Cash out
Standing Calf x10 @ 225/240/255
4 mins.

8 hours - 2200/0600. 26 minutes total, PE: 7. 30 hours.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

EXP 21 Pull CA - Apr 14

Light and easy, not trying to blow up here.

4 rounds, on the HT timer
Ring rows x10
Ring dips xmax reps (10's)
Chins (5's)
15 mins.

8 hours - 2230/0630. 15 minutes total, PE: 7. 24 hours.

Bacon Weave al Monte

For better photography and a simpler recipe, visit this link. For the Truth, read on.

Start with your bacon weave. There's no good way to form this. Just bend the crossmembers back and lay the next row down. This is a 6x5 weave, we later added an additional 7th column. I highly recommend as many strips as you can force into the rectangle.

Dust with garlic salt and a spicy rub, here, anything you pull from the spice rack will work.
Lay down your blob o' sausage. In retrospect, I think two layers with the same amount of meat divided into two blankets would be better, sandwiching in an (not pictured) coating of sweet and zesty BBQ sauce. Also, we used spicy Italian sausage for this, but regular sausage might have been a better option.
LBH says to mix in an egg to this sausage layer to act as a binder. I say, why not? More protein is a good thing.
Goo a layer of grilled bacon and onions fresh from the sautee pan, with copious amounts of Brand X BBQ sauce. Maybe A-1 would finally find its place in the world here.

Also, you see why sandwiching this goodness between a pair of layers of sausage would be a phenomenal feat of baconary artistry. So, make double dose of this goo and do that 'nother layer thing. This layer contained about 7 strips of bacon and a whole onion.
Cheese happened. Me, I will omit this lactose-paste in the future. Monte, on the other hand, said he wants more cheese on his next go-around. A matter of taste. I found the cheese a distraction, rather than a bonus addition. If you must have cheese, melt some atop the completely cooked BaconLog at the very end, I say. Otherwise, what's next? Greens? Seafoods? Don't muddy the meaty waters.
Roll 'er up. See the ends? This is where you really want your bacon weave to be at its most expansive.
You want your weave as long as it can be as well as wide. Heck, it wouldn't hurt to do a second weave as an extension so you can have empty weave rolling over into itself at both ends, for a mind-boggling pinwheel effect.
 Ask for 24 inch slices of bacon from your local butcher who harvests hogs near the Springfield nuclear plant.
Insert into the smoker. I think foil-wrap might have served us well in the oven, but what do I know?
Also, keep a wooden spoon handy to spank the hell out of anyone's wrist if they want to open the door to take a look. Bacon is cooking here! Back off, newbs! Damn. If all else fails, wrapping the thing in foil will suppress passer-bys interest in peeking and letting out all the heat. Move along, nothing to see here but foil, people.

Approximately 5 UFC fights later, the pre-heat is complete. You can test the internal temp with a stick-thermometer if you like. No matter what it reads, you'll still move on to the grill anyway, so why bother? Just get moving and stop posturing like you know what you're doing.
Cat Zingano and Meisha Tate were fighting in the octagon, so we missed the BBQ sauce spraydown and trip over the coals. But it did happen, covered with foil to lock in all the juicinesses, and to keep the weave from sticking to the grill and unraveling everything.
After a quick 10 mins off the heat, stick a knife into it.
Spill toothpicks all over the floor and serve.

EXP (15) Hinge - Apr 13

4 rounds, on the HT timer
Hang power clean @120# x10///8
KB swing x10 @ 2 pood
Curl @ 80# - narrow 2x10, wide 2x7
19 mins.

Tabata bag work
20 rounds, 14 punching/6 kicking.
10 mins.

8 sessions this week, most of them were hi-intensity. A hard week, but a good one.

9.5 hours - 2200/0630. 29 minutes total, PE: 8. 18 hours.

Friday, April 12, 2013

EXP (24?) - Bench ME - Apr 12

Buy in
Y-pulls, 3 rounds
3 mins.

5x5 Bench
Rx@ 225/240/260/275/290
Actual: 225/245/265/275/295
12 mins.
Wasn't feeling great coming in, tired and overextended - didn't think I'd get the 290x5. 295x5 wasn't really a stretch. Should have known I'd rise to the challenge.

And, It's Official: I can bench more than I can deadlift. I'm fucked.

4 rounds, on the HT timer, in .30 on 1.15
Pulls
Underbar horz pulls
10 mins.

Scottish Games Injury Watch Update: Getting up this morning, felt my right ACL ginch up, and with the twinge associated with that lock up, almost found myself going down to the ground. Torn and flapping in the wind? Massively inflamed so it catches down there in all the machinery? An MRI would tell.

9.5 hours - 2130/0600. 26 minutes total, PE: 6. 18 hours.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

EXP Ground to Overhead test, CL + S Run - Apr 11

Heck, I don't even know what EXP day this is anymore, working off the old chart. I need to make a deck and just work through the cards - whatever's on the top of the deck is the current session.

Death by GtO
8.5 rounds at 115#
9 mins.

4 rounds, on 2:00
RDL x10 @ 135/140///
Seated calf x11 @ 70#
8 mins.

Feeling overextended, which I now realize in a Biblical sense, is the point of a 40-day high frequency program. Just had to remind myself that this wasn't a workout, it was a session. Just get through this session.

PM
Brighthouse Hill run up/walk downs
12 on 1.40
20 mins.

Katsup, since I rowed last night, and missed these on Monday PM.

8 hours - 2200/0600. 18 + 20 minutes, PE: 9. 18 hours.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

EXP 16 Pull ME + EXP 19 Dead ME - Apr 10

Main set
5x5 Pulls w/ 25# x5/5/4/4/3
8 mins.

Push Pull
4 rounds, 1 min RI
DB recline press @ 75# x10
DB croc row @ 105# x5's
10 mins.

Cash out
3x 10 Y-pulls
4 mins.

PM
Dead ME 5x5, 1 min RI
Rx: 225/240/255/270/285
Actual: 225/245/255/275/285/295 (3)
16 mins.

Row 3k
PR at 12.27.

8 hours - 2200/0600. 25 + 29 minutes, PE: 9. 24 hours. 228/14.

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

EXP 17 Squat DE - Apr 9

Hi Bar Squat 5x5, for form
Rx: 160/170/180/195/205
Actual: 165/175/185/205/215
In .30, on 2.00 - Ass to the grass.
11 mins.

3x10 antagonists
Leg curl @ 110
Extensions @ 195
5 mins.

8 - 1 hours - 2200/0600. 17 minutes total, PE: 7. 24 hours.

Monday, April 08, 2013

EXP (18) Worl's Easiest Squat Day - Apr 8

What do you do on Squat day when there's no squat bar available? You let Deppen talk you into doing Press day early.

Buy in
FtB - 3 rounds
10/10/8
4 min.

Press 5x5, 1 min RI
125/135/145/155/165 (3)
then
4 rounds, in .30 on 1.15
Neutral grip pulls
Ring dips
7's, plus or minus
22 mins.

BeatDown UpDate: The Scottish Games knee issue has moved from inside of my knee (with some residual clicking and tightness) to the back of the knee (where it fed by tightening up my lateral collateral ligament like a guitarstring) to my interior gastroc. No running for me tonight.

6 hours - 000/0600. 26 minutes total, PE: 7. 54 hours.

Saturday, April 06, 2013

"Saturday" kinda off EXP - Apr 6

I don't even know what to call this day. Shuffling the EXP sessions continually to catch up or stay on schedule is making me revise my view of what's most important. Maybe lining out what you can realistically do is preferable to planning the optimal schedule.

Anyway, it's Saturday morning, before the doucheX is open, and after DL day. Pull, push, hinge ... you see the prescription. No bag work - no time, no desire to inhale more of the allergens than necessary.

3 rounds, in .30 on 1.15
Chins
Ring dips
Ring rows
11 mins.

3 rounds, same timer.
Power Cleans @ 120#
KB swings @ 2 pood
narrow grip curl @ 90ish
11 mins.

8 hours - 2200/0600. 22 minutes total, PE: 7. 12 hours.

Friday, April 05, 2013

EXP 11 CL/Deads ME - Apr 5

Still one session behind on the EXP schedule, but Sunday's an off day, so I'll be back on track for next week. I blurred through day 10 last night, and just need to log a heavy squat day over the weekend.
By the way, I also kinda hurt all over, and the knee pain has moved and housed itself in my right calf.

Cl
4 rounds x10-12, on the .30 in 1.15 timer:
leg curl @ 90/105///
extensions @ 195
--
(3 rounds)
Seated calf @ 70
A-frame @ 5
17 mins.

Deads
5x5 Rx @ 205/225/240/255/270
Actual: 205/225/245/255/275/ 10x 225
11 mins.

8 hours - 2200/0600. 28 minutes total, PE: 7. 24 hours.

Thursday, April 04, 2013

EXP 9 Squat DE/CL + Press ME - Apr 4

Buy in
Overhead squat x10 @ 45/65/85
7 mins.

Front Squat
5x5 @ 140/150/160/170/180+ (7)
9 mins.

CL quad
4 rounds x10-12
Seated Calf @ 70
Standing calf @ 210/225/240/225
Extensions 195#
Leg curl 110#
11 mins.

PM
Buy in
3x max reps Y-pulls
1 round of rotator cuff stuff
4 mins.

4x5 Cable pulldown singles
@ 90/105/120 (3)/115
6 mins.

Press ME
Rx: 115/125/130/140/150
5x115/5x135/10x140/5x155/2x155
140 seemed easy, so I just kept going.
10 mins.

8 hours - 2200/0600. 49 minutes total, PE: 7. 18 hours.

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

EXP 8 Doing Wahteva H Push ME + S Run - Apr 3

Fast forwarded past the CL PM workout from yesterday, to blowing off the Day 6 Pull Metcon (Helen) completely, to considering my Saturday bonus quad a sub for the Day 7 Hinge day, to jumping into this Push ME day - which was supposed to happen yesterday. Nothing like missing a couple days in a high-frequency cycle to create a juggling act.

Changed the buy in today from tabata planking to a short Death by pulls - 6 rounds.
6 mins.

Bench 5x5
Rx: 210/225/240/260/275
Actual: 210/225/245/265/275
8 mins.

DB Croc row
5x5 @ 100#
8 mins.

On the way out the door, I counted the cardio machines at DoucheX. 68. And one power rack. That's a bullshit to real shit ratio of 68:1.

PM
8 220's on the potholed soccer field at Yokuts - in just under .50 on 3.00. First one really hurt my right knee. Ran them pretty gingerly and tried to short-stride.
24 mins.

8 + 2 hours - 2200/0600. 46 minutes total, PE: 6. 24 hours.

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

EXP 5 Squat ME - Apr 2

Tired after a long weekend and bad sleep, allergies.

Buy in
Overhead Squat 3x10 @
45/65/95
8 mins.

5x5 Squat @
230/250/270/285/305
17 mins.

This video shows me trying to get down into the hole at 305.


Left wrist felt like murder during the overheads. Some really ugly, barely-parallel back squats today. One of those sessions you just say you were glad that you tried, and didn't cheese on.

8 hours - 2200/0600. 25 minutes total, PE: 8. 72 hours.