Lifting to Live

[Fred J]

HA....I have The Priest on YouTube in the garage right now trying to get some energy going for my lifts! The US festival also...

[Bill Anders]

You can never go wrong with Priest to get things moving!

[Bill Anders]

7/26/22 - Tuesday

SQ H @ 5'
45x10x3
95x5 p
135x3 p
185x1 p
225x1 p
270x1
300x5x4

Chins 7, 6, 5.

Music — Suicidal Tendencies, I Saw Your Mommy; Anthrax, Who Cares Wins; Korn, Rotting In Vain; Sacred Reich, Who's To Blame; Gojira, Another World.

Notes —
- SQ - Heavy Day, +10lb jump over last cycle. All four sets were tough, but manageable. All good.
- Chins - Nothing of note. They're chins.

[Bill Anders]

7/28/22 - Thursday

BP @ 5'
45x5x3
95x3 p
135x1 p
185x1
210x5x4 4x5 PR

OP L @ 5'
45x5x2
75x3
105x1
115x1
130x5x3

Music — The Pretenders, Mystery Achievement; B-52's, Private Idaho; Gorillaz ft Thundercat, Cracker Island (world premiere during this workout).

Notes —
- BP - Heavy Day, +5lbs over last cycle. All good. This is a 4x5 PR, as I've only done 3x5's at and above this weight.
- OP - Light Day, +5lbs over last cycle. All good.

[Fred J]

Nice PR!

Private Idaho now I haven't heard that in a long time.

[Bill Anders]

Thanks Fred!

I hadn't heard it in quite a while either. So it got turned up a fair bit.

[Mr. Bingley]

Love the '52s!!

Love PRs even more! nicely done!

[Bill Anders]

Agree on both counts, Mr B. Thanks!

[Bill Anders]

7/29/22 - Friday

DL H @ 8'
65x5x3 pc
135x4 pc
185x2
225x1
295x1
330x5 s
305x5 s

SQ L @ 5'
45x5x2
95x3 p
135x3 p
185x1 p
225x1
265x5x3

Music — Caliban vs Anthrax, Among The Living; Nite In Gales vs Anthrax, Indians (always the best pit during an Anthrax show, in a night full of great pits); Anthrax vs Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath; Children of Bodom vs Anthrax vs Trust, Antisocial; D.R.I., Abduction; Electric Wizard, Wicked Caresses.

Notes — This definitely will be a 2 t-shirt day; at the start of the workout (10am) it was already 90F outside with the sun beating down on the garage door, so it's not much cooler in the garage. And it's humid too, somewhere around 35% .
- DL - +10lbs over last cycle. I was surprised at how much the bar rolled in my fingers during the 295lb DOH, but I kept it in the grip and locked it out. But that doesn't normally happen until 300+. Perhaps it was the 70lb jump to this point, instead of my normal 50lb (but I didn't want to figure out how to shoehorn another warmup rep in there). Regardless, I won't take that to mean anything right now other than it did it this one time. The 330x5 went fine, although the last one seemed a touch soft at lockout, even with the knees locked and the shoulders behind the bar travel line; similar with the 305x5, but all good.
- SQ - Light Day. As usual, when these follow the deadlifts, they don't feel light. But manageable. All good.

[Mr. Bingley]

good work after all the presses yesterday...I would be dead going 2 days in a row like that