Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Texas, week 1, volume

Warm-up:
bike ride home
back squat (up to 5x155#)

5x5 back squat (175)
5x5 shoulder press (85 [push last rep])
5x5 power clean (95,4x115)

3x8 (per arm) windmills (35# plate)

Squats felt fine, can go up next time. Power cleans were brutal, been awhile so pulling was mostly too high, and I crashed into the bar many times.

3 comments:

  1. Nice work Brian - I find having a set schedule and progression so much better for tracking progress.

    Was thinking about adding CJ's as a pulling workout for the volume days. Don't know about you, but just the 5x5 squats alone had me tired.

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  2. Well, power cleans are *much* easier than full cleans, much more so without the jerk. Definitely tiring, but hopefully I'll dial the form back in, which should at least minimize the bruising.

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  3. Oops, my bad, *definitely* not adding a jerk to it

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