The Polish Meat Locker

[Clay Simczyk]

Press: 165x5x5

Squat: 390x3, 390x3, 370x3, 370x3, 370x3, 370x3
* 390 wasn’t going to happen again. Dropped 5%.

Finished with some light power cleans to practice the movement.

[Keith]

Press: 165x5x5

Squat: 390x3, 390x3, 370x3, 370x3, 370x3, 370x3
* 390 wasn’t going to happen again. Dropped 5%.

Finished with some light power cleans to practice the movement.

I like your log. I am similarly aged so your progress is inspiring. I have been thinking about doing triples on volume day when 5s get to be too much. How do you like it? The book seems to recommend 3s reluctantly but I feel like at my age 5 sets of 3 is easier than 3 sets of 5.

thanks,
Keith

[Clay Simczyk]

You have to experiment a little. 5x5 squats killed killed killed me, but 5x5 or more on presses is just fine.

[Clay Simczyk]

Keith,

I just took a quick look at your log. It looks like you've been doing TM for about half a year. Your competition lifts at the beginning of the log look higher than your current numbers. Am I reading that right?

[Keith]

Keith,

I just took a quick look at your log. It looks like you've been doing TM for about half a year. Your competition lifts at the beginning of the log look higher than your current numbers. Am I reading that right?

That sounds terrible... but yeah, I did a short TM cycle leading up to the meet in August after the LP. After the meet I screwed around with madcow and went backwards a little. I got back on TM in Sept. So, TM for about 3 months. I am a bit stronger than I was at the meet in August-- I am going to do 5 singles with the weight that I hit at the meet on the squat and bench in 2 weeks. I reset my dead recently. The week before Xmas I am planning to squat 370 X 1 and bench 240 x 1. A modest increase on my previous 1RM. But not 5lbs a week.
thanks!

[Clay Simczyk]

I noticed a few times in your log talking about poor sleep. That's one of my problems too. I couldn't recover from the standard TM and reworked it into what I'm doing now.

[Clay Simczyk]

Which is this:

1 Volume Press 5x5, Squat 5x3
2 off
3 Volume Bench (dumbells), Deadlift 5x3
4 off
5 Light Day
6 off
7 Intensity Press (singles), Squat (singles)
8 off
9 Intensity Deadlift (singles), Bench (singles)
10 off
11 Light Day
12 off

Not that this will work for everybody, but it's an example of how you can tweek TM into something that suits you. My programming went through a few incarnations and I didn't make a lot of progress earlier in the year. This came about in the fall and basically was most of my progress for the year.

[Clay Simczyk]

This workout was scheduled for tomorrow, but work decided to be stupid in the, “oh, by the way, you’re working tomorrow” sort of way. Some clients give me a little more notice about things like this.

Whatever, just gimme the fuckin’ money!



Deadlift: 380 - five triples

db bench: 90’s - 8,8,8,6

Squats: 375x3, 375x3, 355x3, 355x3
* More volume instead of paused. Also, 365 is a beltless warmup. That makes me happy!

** The two days in a row volume worked pretty well. I’ll remember this as a viable option for the future if I'm not dragging my ass tomorrow.

Music: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes new album.

[Oren]

Music: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes new album.

LoL. Nothing like some silly covers to get your blood up for a volume day. You are strong, sir.

[Clay Simczyk]

Silly covers?!?!?!

It was better than expected for workout music.

Today is a light day not going very well. I may be sick. Can't be sick. Santa Rampage* is tomorrow.


* 600 people dressed as Santa bar hopping - on bicycles.