Gish's Log

[Bradley Gish]

1/11/18

BW 240

Squat
400x5x3

Press
155x5x3

BB Rows

Everything feeling pretty good. Moderately heavy, but good. I’m 20 lbs away from a PR on both Squat and press for 3x5. I’m optimistic about it.

[Bradley Gish]

1/14/18

Squat
405x5x3

Press
157.5x5x3

Rack Pull
560x5

Just making my way through my previous PRs, potentially spying some new ones...

[Bradley Gish]

1/16/18

Squat
320x5x2

Press
160x5x3

Chins
BWx6,6,5

Felt as if the press should’ve been at least somewhat easier. Didn’t expect to grind through these yet. Could be that I used my new bar for the first time, and I it needs some getting used to. Did a good job of keeping my lower body tight, but I failed to capitalize on the hip toss.

[Bradley Gish]

1/18/18

Squat
410x5x3

Press
162.5x5x3

BB Rows
200x8x3

So I favor the CAP bar more than my Ohio bar. I was assuming that any Rogue 20Kg Bar would be better than “the Beast “. Well, I assumed wrong. My wife agrees with me too. Guess I’m going to keep it around and eventually purchase a couple sets of bumper plates and start back practicing the power variants. It should be great for that.

[Bradley Gish]

1/21/18

Squat
415x5x3

Press
165x5x3

HDL
480x8

Had some pretty ugly knee slide on my squat, at least on the one set that I videoed. Been trying to think about leaving knees forward when I come out of the hole, to stay over midfoot and not let my hips shoot back quite as far during the ascent. Think it’s causing me to “kick” in the bottom. Press was pretty good. Last rep on the last set slowed down on me significantly, think I need to drop straight back into layback on at least the last rep, instead of trying to “come through”. Little extra layback on the “fatigued “ reps may make them a little easier by letting my arms extend more. Approaching new PR territory for sets across for the Squat and press. HDL felt good. Thought about getting at least 9 reps to set a new PR, but decided to stay loyal to the program/plan.

[Bradley Gish]

1/23/18

Squat
325x5x2

Press
167.5x5x3
167.5x4

Chins
BWx6x3

Presses were some real grinders. Only got 4 on my second set, reconfigured things, then got 5 again. Decided to go ahead and try to manage one more set of 5, in order to complete all 3 sets, in which I did, but it was tough. Seems like last time I ran LP on my press a little extra volume on the sessions that I missed reps actually helped, so I don’t think doing an extra set of 4 will hurt too much. Think that I’m going to take 1lb. Jumps now though. Even 168.5x5x3 will be a new set/rep PR.

[Bradley Gish]

1/25/18

BW 240

Squat
420x5x3***
YouTube

Press
168.5x5x3***
YouTube

Chins
BWx6,6,6

Got me some PRs on LP. The press is just a 1lb, but I’ll take it. Since I’ve come back from my layoff I’ve stopped counting the collars as weight for my press, just simpler that way. I added them in before, because I began my last program not using them, then started using them during the middle of my program.

[Bradley Gish]

1/28/18

Squat
425x5x3***

Press
169.5x4,4,3,3

Rack Pull
565x1x2

Although I managed the squat PR, I just felt outta gas. You know some days you just don’t have it, even the warm ups felt “stale”. Rack pulls weren’t really happening at all. I was only able to get 2 singles at a weight 20lbs less than my 5RM a few months ago. Obviously there are some recovery issues here. I suspect that squatting heavy twice a week for sets across is taking it’s toll on me. Considering tapering this off, and regardless, every top set will be a new 5RM from here out.

[Bradley Gish]

1/30/18

Squat
330x5x2

Press
169.5x5,5,4,4***

Chins
BWx7,6,4

The press and I are battling right now, sometimes it wins, sometimes I do. Improvement from Sunday’s workout at this weight, for the PR. There is not much room for error with these at the moment.

[Bradley Gish]

2/1/18

Squat
430x5***
YouTube
405x5x2

Press
169.5x4,3

Chins
BWx8

I believe my LP has been exhausted.