Tuesday - Bench Press. Workout #1 Cycle #3

Today's percentages  had me lift exactly what I lifted this time last month, due to rounding down instead of rounding up. Anyway, I've been in Buffalo for the past two days attending a spoken Latin conference and I've not been eating very much. I knew that going into today's workout I'd be pretty low energy/strength. Bench press, for me, is affected by outside factors so much more than my other lifts.  I ended up lifting exactly what I did last month, but I was unable to complete my assistance work, so I called it an early day.  Emotionally I'm not pleased with myself and I would've liked to have eked out one more rep as compared to last time. Logically I know that today was actually not so bad considering the circumstances (and it could have been worse!). No video today, as I was in a college gym where recording is not allowed.

By the way, I didn't think anyone read this blog. Where in the hell are all these page views coming from!?

Goals:

160x5
180x5
205x5

Lifted:

160x5
180x5
205x9

Sunday - Deadlifts. Workout#1 Cycle #3 | Hill Sprints # 15

I failed with the camera set up again. This time you can see me, but not the weight. Oh well, I really did do 370x14 today.  PLEASE BELIEVE ME! Anyway, This time last month I got 365x12 (no chalk) and two months ago 355x13, so the progress continues...
Assistance work: 5 sets of ab wheel, 5 sets of weighted pull-ups (+45lbs)

Goals for today:

285x5
325x5
370x5

Lifted:

285x5
325x5
370x14

Video of final set below:

Friday - Clean and Jerk. Workout #1 Cycle #3 | Hill Sprints # 14

Today was the beginning of cycle number 3. Two months ago I began 5/3/1 with a lift of 175lbs for 8 reps on the clean and jerk. Last month I improved to 180 for 8. Today I managed 185lbs for 9 reps.

I realized today that I need to actually go into the gym on the deload week and do some light lifting; Everything felt way too difficult today, assistance work especially. Though, I still managed to do 50 reps of chinups in 5 sets and 50 reps of weighted dips (45lb plate) in 5 sets.

Later in the day I did 7 sprints on Libe Slope. They are still kicking my ass.

Goals:

140x5
160x5
185x5

Lifted:

140x5
160x5
185x9


I screwed up the video as you can only see the bottom half. Oh well, at least the number of reps were recorded. Ill post it, but there's not much to see.

Deload until Friday

Sunday - Hill Sprints #13

I went back to Libe slope to run the same hills. I did pretty well for just having done squats. I did the same number (7) about two minutes quicker overall.