The Road to 405

[Ryan Arnold]

4/23/18

Bench: 210x5x5

Chins: BWx10x3

Back tweakage still bad. Going to DL light Wednesday and then begin HBBS LP Friday. Will try to make this a quick LP if no setbacks - 2 months tops. Then hopefully will FINALLY be ready for a true no nonsense block of training this summer

[Ryan Arnold]

4/25/18

DL: [65, 85, 105, 125] x3 - Just used the same weights as my client. Pathetic. Well, for me at least.

Press 1.0: 125x5x2

Low back tweak is still hurting bad so only wanted to do extremely light DL today. Didn't feel worse after so that's a good sign. Will be able to tell more tomorrow. Did Press 1.0 in order to save the low back from the hip reach. Will hope for some improvement and possible light squats Friday. #strugglebus

[Ryan Arnold]

4/27/18

HBBS: [65, 85, 105] x5

Bench: 232.5x5

Deadlift: [135, 155, 175]

Hoping to feel ok tomorrow after this

[Ryan Arnold]

4/30/18

HBBS: [65, 85, 105, 125, 135] x3

Bench: 212.5x5x5

Chins: 50 reps

Back felt a bit better today. Felt a little resistance at 135 so stopped there. Hoping to feel like 90% Wednesday. Bench and chins felt fine

[Ryan Arnold]

5/2/18

Press: 127.5x5x3

DL: [135, 155, 175, 195] x3

Back on the way to recovery. Hope to increase weight in Squat Friday and be back to feeling normal next week

[Ryan Arnold]

5/4/18

HBBS: 145x3x2

Bench: 235x5

Chins: BWx5, +25x5x2

Low back did not feel as good as I'd hoped today. Still went up in weight but def couldn't push it anymore. Will just hope for better on Monday. If it persists I may have to skip the HBBS rehab plan and just go right into Low Bar. We'll see.

[Ryan Arnold]

5/7/18

HBBS: 155x5x2

Bench: 215x5x5

Chins: 9,8,7,6,5,4,4,4,3,3 = 53

Back only slightly better. The amount of time this is taking is obviously frustrating. Bench - dat volume tho. Then repped out some chins. As long as the back continues to improve and I can transition back into a modified TM setup I should be fine going forward.

[Ryan Arnold]

5/9/18

Press: 135x5x3

DL: [135, 185, 205, 215] x3

Back felt a little better. Feels like progress

[John Petrizzo]

Sorry to see your back has been giving you so much trouble, Ryan.

[Ryan Arnold]

Sorry to see your back has been giving you so much trouble, Ryan.

Yeah. Its not been fun.

Bench: 237.5x3x2

Chins: BWx10x3

Was feeling good about my back earlier in the week and then somehow had some sort of unexplained regression/re-aggravation sometime Thursday. Everything was painful Friday so knew there was no way squatting was going to happen. I think I'm going to have to just take like 2 weeks off from Squatting and Deadlifting until it calms down. Its been 5 months since I trained heavy what's two more weeks right? Grrrrrrr....