Here Comes Hercules.

[carson]

Congrats on Friday's D/L PR Carson. Listened to Sully on the BB-Logic podcast today and was very cool to hear him brag about you. You are inspiring a bunch of folks, and now with the podcast I'd presume a whole bunch more. Very cool.

You are very kind. I love Coach Sully and Frank his assistant. We even love to clean the gym and care for the plants and equipment maintenance twice a week. I hope to do more than one competition this coming year. We will see. Keep up the good work.

[carson]

A middling day:

Squat: 70 x 5; 120 x 5; 160 x 3; 200 x 1; 225 x 1; 241 x 2 x 2; 100 x 5 x 2 (paused)
Bench: 45 x 5; 95 x 3; 135 x 1; 144 x 2 x 2
Dead: 135 x 3; 225 x 2; 315 x 1; 326 x 1; 355 x 1 bar drifted a bit from my left leg. I did not try 375.

Someday I will be able to tolerate a hook grip for even top weights. Until then I do the reverse grip on top weight. Too often I let the bar drift on the left side when I do. It really is a matter of concentration.

Still, my deadlift is at the elite level for someone my age. That makes me smile.

[hondotbt]

That makes me smile

makes me smile too Carson!

[Cheesepuff]

When I start talking myself out of doing my workout I think "somewhere Carson is pulling 375". And I get after it.

[carson]

When I start talking myself out of doing my workout I think "somewhere Carson is pulling 375". And I get after it.

Good! Retirement doesn't leave many options for doing something good. I'm glad I can do this. 375, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.

[57bergstrm]

Good! Retirement doesn't leave many options for doing something good. I'm glad I can do this. 375, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.

I can really relate to the words of retirement and doing something of value.

[carson]

Light day which allowed me to continue to recover from stomach flu. Also, to check for occasional dizziness Doctor prescribed that I checked blood sugar and blood pressure before and after squats, which I did.

Squats: 70 x 5 (paused); 120 x 5; 160 x 3; 190 x 1; 208 x 5 x 2; 100 x 5 x 2 (paused)
Press: 45 x 5; 65 x 3; 95 x 1; 105 x 1; 116 x 0 x 0 I ran out of steam

[hondotbt]

Hope your recovery from the flu is progressing, hat's off to you for getting after it while on the mend.

[carson]

Thank you, hondotbt.

I weather got so bad that we decided to close the gym in mid session. I only did my squats and left before I did bench and deadlift.

Squat: 70 x 5 (paused); 120 x 5; 160 x 3; 200 x 1; 225 x 1; 241 x 2 x 2; 100 x 5 x 1

It was very sad because it was Deadlift 1+ day. I wanted to shoot for 375. Maybe Friday.

The snow makes me long for a warmer climate.

[Cheesepuff]

We lift to live...
We all need a break once in a while. When we fail to work them in, fate helps us out.
The weights will all be there next session.
Good luck!