I will be gone later this year for 2 weeks for work, and won’t be able to ‘powerlift’ so this is going to throw a wrench in my plans for the meet on Dec 7 but I will still have plenty of training in. But, it’s an opportunity I cannot pass up. I will stay on a good diet, and have plenty of time to get the raw work done that I need to do. More on this soon.

As my last update said, travel has tossed off my training schedule some. This session was complete garbage, btw.

Week 5, Day 2 Wed Bench

Normal 10/20/Life Warm-up

• Suitcase carry
• McGill big 3
• Cervical/Thoracic Mobility 
• Lock pull-down 
• Shoulder big 3
• DB press

Training:

• Bench with Iron Wolfe bar: 325, 415 then added SDP 550, 685, 775, 825 – miss and miss
• Sat and complained x10

I didn’t feel very good on this day but I made myself bench. I don’t know that is was the right choice but it’s done now. I was in a sour mood and frankly tired. Nothing went right and I kept losing my air and about passed out a few times. Nothing felt light, it all felt very heavy. My forearms are now smoked too!

The takeaway from this: be grateful that I’m healthy enough to lift, have a great place to lift and finally that I get to do it so often. If I have a bad day on occasion, then so be it, it happen.

I have a few weeks of big lifts coming, so I need to move forward. I really didn’t even want to do this entry but it’s necessary if I’m being honest about my training. Like I said a few posts ago, this cycle is a bit of an experiment and I have no idea how it’s going to go.