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Thursday 8/23/2012:

Hang clean: 115 for 4x5

Incline DB Press: 45x5, 50x5, 50x5, 50x5, 50x5

DB Press: 50 for 5x10

Tri Push Downs: 100x10, 120x8, 130x6, 140x4

Dips: 4x10

Russian twists: 3x20

Crunches: 3x30

V-ups: 3x20

Good hell, I've never done so much volume on chest/tris before. My left boob (ha... ha) was sore the next day, and I could barely hold up my trumpet while marching.

On that program my buddy wrote up for me:

Monday 8/20/2012:

Cleans: 135x5, 135x5, 155x5, 155x5

Deadlifts: 185x10, 185x10, 185x10, 185x10  (Damn my spinal erectors felt crazy after that)

Bench Press: 135x5, 145x5, 145x5, 145x5

Seated push press: 60x5, 70x5, 70x5, 80x5

Tricep pushdowns: 100x10, 110x10, 110x10, 110x10

Russian twists: 3x20

Crunches w/10lb weight: 3x30

Pushups: 3x15

Hahaha. Of course. That's basically what I've been living on the last few days.

Same here, except my 2nd molars were almost impacted too. It's not fun at all. Can't eat what I want right now and it's driving me crazy.

Been away most of the summer. Took about a month away from lifting altogether. Had a close aunt in Texas pass away from breast cancer just a few weeks ago, that put me out for another 2 weeks for travel stuff. I'm back into some higher volume stuff until I get a legit program for myself from an older friend of mine who was a thrower and a coach here at Utah State University. Studied exercise science (I think...? Pretty sure, haha).

Won't be logging anything on here until I start that. On the downside of all of the nonsense that went down with family, weight gain stopped entirely from the start of the summer and even went down. I'm at about 145 right now though, so I guess it's still much better than where I was a few months ago, and I've been active despite not lifting so strength is still good and even better in some areas than in my last post.

I remember we debated whether or not he should run in the olympics a while back. Same argument everyone has about him having an advantage with the springs. No conclusive evidence in either direction though, but I say it shouldn't be a problem. At least not now. In my mind it's leveled out, because even though the springs don't lose nearly as much energy as an achilles tendon, he's missing the entire active component that other runners have to give them more spring. He has to compensate through the rest of his legs and especially his core to keep his legs high, that and his arm swing has to be harder and tighter than others just to keep him balanced. Until there's conclusive evidence in either direction I'll continue to be inspired by the man. Just the fact that he puts a smile on kids with a similar condition and gives them a little hope makes me like him.

Rear foot elevated split squats... oh, LAWL. I've always known those as Bulgarian split squats. Much shorter that way too. haha