God damn it, I hate holidays. There are two types of holidays. Ones where I don't get the day off anyway, and the gym closes at buttfucking 1 PM, and ones where I DO get the day off, and the gym is closed, leaving me with nothing to do on my goddamn day off. Memorial Day was the former. Which means that the usually horde of idiots that typically have the decency to space their existence out across the entire Monday all crammed into the gym within about four hours of each other.
I don't know how I managed to get the shit I planned to get done finished. Especially after I waited 20 minutes for the girl using the platform for hip thrusts to GTFO so I could get started. Really, if the hip thrusts weren't clearly effective and building Dat Ass, it would have been a Field of Honoring.
On the plus side, I killed the snatches and will add another 5 lbs to them next Monday.
Monday 5-28-2018
Snatches: 185 lbs 5x3
Bench Press: 250 lbs 5x5
Deadlifts: 435 lbs 3x5
Dips: 5x10
Tuesday continued the cavalcade of bullshit, but this time it had nothing to do with the regular dunces (there WAS a guy furiously half repping curls for whatever reason, but he never actually got in the way of anything important [Side Note: Important = DirtyRed]). Immediately as I tried to tighten the laces to my weightlifting shoes, the goddamn cheap ass lace snapped. So, I drove a few blocks down to Dicks to get another lace, as my preworkout was being digested in traffic. Tearing the lace, driving to Dick's, getting a new lace, stopping a moment to look extra shabby in my gym close while eyeballing one of the putters in the golf section like I had never seen a golf club before in my life before making a put from across their 15x15 felt practice green, leaving the working golf manager wondering if he had just seen a magical golfing hobo, driving back, and installing the new lace, took more than thirty minutes. The GOAL of 5 days a week was to not be in the gym until midnight.
Tuesday 5-29-2018
Clean and Jerks: 265 lbs 6x2
Squats: 410 lbs 5x8
Push Press: 225 lbs 5x3
Curls: 90 lbs 5x10
The attentive reader might notice I'm doing quite a bit of deadlifting, and a bit less squatting this weeks. For at least four weeks, possibly six (we'll see if I have any remaining will to live after week 4), the focus of the volume is going to alternate between squats and deadlifts on a week to week basis. While the out of focus lift gets at least two decent days of lifting in. My grip was rapidly weakening and my hangs stung like shit by the end of these deadlifts. More deadlift volume will certainly help my grip strength for max deadlifts, provided I don't gruesomely injure myself.
I should probably add a set or two to the close grip bench press.
Wednesday 5-30-2018
Deadlifts: 465 lbs 8x3
Close Grip Bench: 205 lbs 3x8
Front Squats: 285 lbs 3x5
Roman Chair Sit Ups: 10 lbs 5x8