"Light Day"?

Skipped light day today. I went to the park, did some dynamic stretching, light running and kicked the soccer ball around instead. Good stuff.

Tuesday

RDL: 70 x 3 x 8. Used straps. EZ-PZ.

LTE: 40 x 3 x 8.

Chins: 8.5 x 3 x 5. Very hard. Chins haven't improved much at all in months. I'm not sure if adding weight to the chins while I continue to add weight to my body is very realistic. I might just look at doing bodyweight chins.

Conditioning: 40m hill sprint x 7. Feeling pretty tired after yesterday but I knew I had to get out of the house and do something. Felt pretty good after the sprints.

A 3 x 5

Squat: 165 x 3 x 5. I remember reading what Justin Lascek said about the Texas Method in regards to volume day. He mentioned doing a third of the reps done on volume day on intensity day. I'm progressing a 2 rep max at the moment so I thought it might be better to go down to a 3 x 5 opposed to a 5 x 5. With that said, I bumped the weight up an extra 5 kilos. It was a tough squat session but I probably preferred it to a 5 x 5 at a more sub maximal weight anyway. I suppose as intensity day weight increases, the volume day 5 x 5 probably isn't as realistic in some ways. It has to be modified to some extent at least.

It will be interesting to see how my intensity progresses over the next couple weeks. My immediate goal is to squat 200kg and I figure I should manage that.I read something interesting from Jim Wendler yesterday about only being able to train within 90% of your one rep max for a couple of weeks before the body begins to fail in recovery. In doing the TM, my one rep max is changing every week but with that said, I must be approaching my 1 RM.

Bench: 90 x 4 x 5, 95 x 1 x 5. First four sets were easy so I thought I would bump up the 5th set 5 kg. Did it comfortably. It seems like I will have to program bench volume differently to squat volume.

Saturday Condish

Run around the park, did a bunch of sprints and other stuff kicking the soccer ball. It was good times.

PRs

Press: 72.5 x 5

Squat: 195 x 2

DL: 180 x 3

A good day in the gym.

2.5 Hour Walk Plus Light Day

I got up this morning, had breakfast and then decided to go for a walk. I thought I would do the typical 45min track down the river. I got to mu usual spot where I would turn around but I thought I would just keep going. I ventured all the way down the river into the centre of town. It took about 2.5 hours. The walk was absolutely beautiful. The scenery along the Waikato River is amazing, I had such a great time.

After I got into town, I picked the car up from the Mrs, drove to the gym and proceeded to do my light day routine.

Squat: 125 x 2 x 5

DC: 18 x 3 x 12

After the session I walked around the rec centre where my gym is located. There's quite a bit of area that I've never explored. In my travels I found a fancy looking electronic scale, which is handy because my scales are home are broken. I hoped on and weighed in at 93.5kg.

After that I drove back into town, met the Mrs and walked around town for about 2 hours looking for a present for a friend.

Assistance And Hill Sprints

RDL: 65 x 3 x 8

LTE: 38.5 x 3 x 8

Conditioning: River hill sprint x 5. Hard stuff.