Jesse's Quest For Master Class (Yet another TM training log)

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Monday- 2/4/13

After 6 days in a row, I was finally feeling it today. My hips are tight, feels like I have a sacral torsion on my right, my shoulders are matted up. Stress and not enough mobility work combo. Despite all the soft tissue stuff I'm feeling great. Eating tons of good protein has reminded my why my training was so stupidly better back when I had plenty of time to control my diet.

Squats: 45x5,5- these were really bad, like falling over backwards because everything is tight bad.
135x10-better, 185x5-feeling good, 225x3- fine, 275x1,1(belt), 325x3 (the last one just collapsed forward into a GM).
Bench: 95x3x10- bicep is bothering me, going to take a couple of days off in the near future.
Power cleans: 135x5 -legs were shot, wanted to do something a little different.

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First day off in a while yesterday. Did 95x20 squats for mobility work, and other than that nothing except some stretching. Upper body feels better today, and after I get work on, I should be in pretty awesome shape. Taking today off as well, due to need to study and the fact that I don't lift after I get manipulation done.

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Wednesday 2/6/12
Squats: 95/135/185x5, 235x2, 255x5- easy
Bench: 45x20, 95x10, 135x5, 155x2, 165x5- too easy, 175x2,5- miswrapped my wrist, had a stabbing tendon pain on the second rep. Racked it, adjusted straps, and did another 5 no problem.
Hip Thrusts: 135x5, 185x3- 135 was jokishly light. 185 was slow on the first rep and easy after that.


I ate the first junk food in two weeks this evening. Due to an unforseen schedule change I was in a food desert this evening, so I went to McDonalds and got 6 Mcdoubles. I stripped the buns off of half of them, stacked them up, and ate them all. I started sweating half an hour later and I have been burning up all evening. I drank probably close to two liters of water this evening after that, and between that and the day off yesterday today's session had a ton of gas.

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Forgot to log last night's session

Squat: 185x3x3- wasn't feeling it
Bench: 135x60 total reps in a bunch of random sets.


I'm finally getting tired of frequency stuff. Feeling strong enough to finally get back on a real program. Probably going to do a TM style setup, want to get some OHP back in the mix. My shoulders have been a serious wreck and only regular self work/OMT is keeping them in good shape.

I'm thinking I'm going to take a couple of days off then test maxes and set up a smart program.

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Squat: 225x3, 275x1, 315x1, 335x1, 355x1- let it there, 375 felt awfully heavy and I don't have a rack to catch me if I fail.
Bench: 135x3, 155x1, 175x1, 190x1, 200x1, 210x1, 220x1, 225x1- no spotter, stopped there.
Deads: 315, 365, 405- wow, feels like my carotids are going to explode. 435- yep, definitely going to explode. 455- fuck it. Got it done.


So other than some surprise blood pressure tolerance issues on deadlifts, good session overall. Total was 1035. That's a measely 145 pounds worse than I totaled last march, however all of it is lower body, and I know with a month of training with heavier percentages I'll regain some more. It's progress in the right direction.

Now to take the rest of the week off, fart around, do a bunch of stupid accessory work, study for class, and work on mobility concerns.

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So I took a few days off, then tested my max press yesterday.
Press: up to 165x2- not technically a PR, but I've never gotten anything over 160 for multiple reps before, and my all time PR is 175. Not bad for not have overhead pressed this year! Mobility work and lots of benching seems to have done the trick for maintaining my pressing strength.

So now my maxes (projected from press) as of this week are 175, 225, 355, 455. I'm starting a new round of 531, so 10% off those gives me training maxes of 160, 200, 320, and 410. I'm going to be doing 3x5 squats on deadlift day, but otherwise running things pretty straight. The one goal I have is that I want to make sure I'm doing some sort of back/posterior chain accessory movement on every single day.

Bench: 150, 170, 190
Squat: 240, 270, 305
Press: 120, 135, 150
Deadlift: 315, 365, 405

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C1W1D1
Bench: 150x5,5, 15- easy. Had another 3-5 in the tank.
CG Bench: 135x3x5- little tricep work
Pullovers- 25x3x10- these really stretched out my rib cage. The ROM is kind of hard to get used to, but I really like them. Hopefully I won't be horrifically sore tomorrow.

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C1W1D2
Squats: 240x5,5,8- wasn't feeling it tonight. Warming up took forever since i spent 13 hours in a desk today.
RDLs: 185x3x5- took a few reps to get back in the hang of it. Widening my grip 6 inches really helps hit the hammies before I get to the floor.
Superset: lunges 3x10 per leg +20lbs/30s planks -Jesus my conditioning is terrible. I did this without rest and was panting and dripping sweat by the end. Was originally going to do more lunges, but I'll work up to it.

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Due to test preparation I took an extra day off in the middle of the week. Finally rid of the soreness, though I need to get back on my daily maintanence mobility work.

C1W1D3
Press: 120x5,5,8- left it there. Could have done more but it was definitely a -10% kind of day. 5 hours of sleep and test stress.
Pulldowns: 170/60/60x10- just getting a little volume.

Didn't get to minor accessory stuff, will add it onto tonight's session.

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Forgot to log deadlift day
Deads: 285x5, 300x5, 315x8 - dead stop reps.
Squats: 225x3x5 no belt. Felt surprisingly light.
Hip thrusts: 135x8 -quick accessory