Tom K's Log

[Tom K]

Light Day

Squat: 305x4x2
Press: 181.25x4, 2, 3, 3
BB Rows: 180x8x4

Out of the groove on presses. Was supposed to be last week's rep/weight scheme but wanted to get it in this week. I think the work was there, just all over the map on missing the right groove today.

[Tom K]

Squat: 330x4x3
Bench: 225x4x4
Deadlift: 355x4

Felt good. Easy.

[JT_]

Your presses are huge. Nice work. Getting sick just sucks, especially cause it messes with your training plans. You've made huge gains in your lifting career. It's pretty awesome to see.

[Tom K]

Your presses are huge. Nice work. Getting sick just sucks, especially cause it messes with your training plans. You've made huge gains in your lifting career. It's pretty awesome to see.

Thanks! Yup, getting sick sucks. Timing on this bout was just especially shitty.

[Tom K]

Week 11 of cycle

Squat: 405x1, 415x1x3 - PR
Bench: 235x2x3
Deadlift: 375x2x3

A bit of an epiphany / no-shit moment for me today. I've never really trained heavy singles before. That's not by design just because of various excuses - being beat up running volume up, just cycling back, etc. So I'm "good" at volume but still learning how to work heavy singles even when they are at weight that I should be able to do based on e1RM's. I guess I didn't put much stock in it since I haven't competed and don't (currently) intend on competing. Anyways, it was just different today.

Squat Rx was 415 for 4 singles today and I was going to ramp up and down but the first single @ 415 felt really good so I stuck with it. 2nd 415 I bottomed out but pushed through fine. Final one was kinda grindy but looking back not that bad. Rest was fine.

[Tom K]

Light Day

Squat: Skipped 330x2x2
Press: 191.25x2x4
BB Rows: 190x6x4

Wanted to get in and out quick so I skipped out on squats. Shame.

Presses: Felt like I had triples at 191.25.

[Tom K]

Squat: 375x2x3
Bench: 260x1; 262.5x1x2 - PR
Deadlift: 420x2 - PR

Bench was supposed to be for four sets but my spotter (teenage son) left and I didn't want to risk the 4th set - 3rd went up slow enough to talk myself out of the 4th to lift another day.

PR on DL too just because I haven't handled a lot of low volume heavy stuff (ala previous post about squat). These went up well.

Schedule got a little jacked up this week because of kids, spring break, and getting them places so moved Thursday's workout all the way to today. Next week is a deload week.

[Tom K]

Week 12 Deload

Squat: 350x3x3
Bench: 225x3x3

Curls for the girls. EZCurl+50x10x3

[Tom K]

Second deload got rained out. :/

PR week

Press: 205x1 (PR); 212.5xF - got this 3/4 of the way up, couldn't lock it out

Deadlift: 435x1 (PR); 455xF - probably not waiting enough between these attempts

Again, need to work on singles. Pleased but wanted more.

[Tom K]

PR week

Squat: 135x5, 225x4, 315x3, 385x1, 405x1, 425x1 (PR)

Bench: 135x6, 205x4, 225x2, 250x1, 260x1, 270xFail

I just fucked up the 270. Next week, new cycle.