Saturday

Conventional deadlifts with bands.  Felt like lots of tension... not really sure:
225 x5
285 3x4
335 2x3 - lockout was fricking hard

Bench:
185 x5
235 x4
275 x3
305 x3
330 x2
*slingshot
375 3x3

Thurs/Fri

Thursday I went on a carzy hike... Shouldn't have been that bad, but we definitely took an especially hard route up.  Was about 6 hours by the time we finished, but about 2 hours was a 4 limb climb and we dropped some water so we ran out with over 2 hours left... Anyways, was fun but definitely draining!

Friday:
CGBP:
185 x5
205 x5
225 x5
245 x5
265 x5
285 3x5 - Volume PR
305 2x2

Deadlifts:
235 x5
325 2x4
375 2x3
425 3x3
475 4x2
bleh... Obviously drained from the hike yesterday.  Also, only used straps on last 2 sets so hands were hurting.  Need to stop with the straps and figure out how to make my hands stop hurting.  Not overly worried, but over/under is almost starting to feel odd.  Will make an effort to do up to and including my first work set without straps.

Few light sets of seated/standing GM and a couple sets of chest flyes.

Good day all things considered.  I have been looking through my old log and I see that the reason I have probably felt more drained durign training lately is because of a big increase in deadlift weights.  From using straps and making the training max much higher to my actual max...  I think I might extend the taper up to 6 weeks since I think there is a good bit of fatigue setting in from the jump in deadlift work.  We will see.

Wed PM

Wasn't planning on going again but my recovery signals were just looking so good... Puzzling...

Bench:
205 x5
245 x4
285 x3
295 x3
305 x3
315 x3
325 x3 - PR for making it look EASY.  Almost certainly good for 5!
315 x3
305 x3
295 x3
285 x3
Huh... What do you know... Recovery signals were right.  That was a fun little 'pyramid' got the idea from somewhere... Anyways, probably will return to a normal pyramid next week.  Only a few more weeks of pyramids before the big taper to worlds!

Cable rowing: 150 x10, 170 x10, 190 x10, 210 4x10

Lat pulldown: some x some x some

Couple sets of curls, flyes, and rear delts

Wednesday AM

Squat:
235 x5
285 x4
335 x3
*belt
395 3x3
*wraps
465 3x2
Much  better today!

OHP:
95 x8
115 x8
135 x8
165 x3

GM: 145 5x5
super long pause high bars: 145 3x3

Tuesday AM

Felt tired still... Upper/mid back and chest especially.

Squat:
225 x5
275 x5
325 x5
350 x5
375 x5
*light wraps
400 x3
425 x3
Bleh.  Like I said, felt tired.  Felt like my back was giving way.

CGBP with feet in air:
135 x6
165 x6
195 x6
225 x6
255 x6
285 x2
Hahahha at the last set... clearly I am drained.

Sun/Mon

Sunday was super tired and I helped my gf with a bit of skills eval (200/110/227.5 - National record squat and lots left on the deadlift).  Did some power clean and press: 145 3x5 and bench recovery: 95lb 4x35 and pendlay rows: 145 2x5.

Monday:
Still felt very tired.  Decided to lower weights a bit and do a bench session.
Bench:
205 x5
235 x4
275 x3
300 6x3

5x10 superset of leg extension/curls

Curls: 2x12 35lb

2x10 good mornings 135lb

Not very stressful session.  Will be putting on the suit to squat tomorrow if I feel up to it, might delay another day.

Friday PM training:
Squat:
125 x5
145 x4
*belt
175 x3
*wraps
195 x3
215 3x2
227.5 2x2

Bench + 2 sets of chain (Maybe 22kg total?):
90 x5
110 x4
130 2x3
140 3x2

Great session.


Saturday morning:
Deadlift:
125 x5
150 x4
175 2x3
200 7x2
bleh.  Felt a bit slow and sloppy.

Bench:
70 x8
90 x5
110 x4
130 x3
140 x2
160 x1 - 2bd
*shirt on - 46 superk that took like 30 minutes to get sort of on... it slid on
160 x few sets of trying to muscle the shirt down
180 x3
190 x3
200 x3
215 x2
227.5 2x1 - Touched the 2nd rep.  Thats 27.5kg over nationals!

chest flyes: 8kg 4x10

Phew... Insane 2 days of training.  Time for some rest!  good thing it has been accompanied by copious quantities of food.