Tuesday, December 30, 2008

12_30 Tues--Squats 5x5, Bench and DL Max Effort (ME)

Felt much better in AM
Slept 8 hours
AM "sleeping" HR avg 51 bpm over 15 min
lowest was 46 bpm
---need to do more conditioning (CRF) work again.

Z Health 20 min
needed some femoral nerve glide work for rt hip--helped quite a bit
green tea and 2 scoops Surge and 1 scoop hyrdo before lifting (still out of BCAAs--will see if it makes any difference), creatine and 2 g L Carnitine

Squats
tested well at +3" for all sets
brought in stance about 1 inch on each side
warm up
135 x7
135 x7
135 x6
135 x 5
135 x 5

Then tested
DL
trap bar DL +2.5"
best ever, did not test others

Bench tested
index +2"
middle finger 0
push ups 0

Bench
at index finger
warm ups
185 x 4
185 x 1,1 w 1 sec pause at bottom
185 x 1,1 w 2 sec pause at bottom
185 x 1,1 w 3 sec pause at bottom
185 x 1 w 4 second pause at bottom
--worked on concentric accel. Speed got better on set 3 and forward

alt with
Trap Bar DLs
worked on conc speed, done fast so heal leave floor, slow lower and reset between each rep
tested great
185 x 5 (cont)
185 x 1,1,1,1
185 x 1,1,1,1
185 x 1,1,1,1,1
185 x 1,1,1 ,1

rope rows (feet on bench) very light
BW x 10, x 8

chins ups (light)
BW x 2, x 2 x 3

Did not feel up to doing any acc work
done

2 comments:

FRANKIE FAIRES said...

I'm dying to know if the speed lockouts and end rom speed work in general is your elixir.

Let me know!

FRANKIE FAIRES said...

been 25 days since an update.
it's time.