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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.

ah, i remember getting my wisdom teeth pulled. was reminiscing about it last friday, actually. can't remember how it came up, we were drunk. anyway, better in the long run. my wisdom teeth were impacted, i.e., growing perpendicular towards the rest of my teeth.

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

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.

Monday 8/27/2012:

Cleans: 155x3x3

Deadlifts: 205x3x10

Bench Press: 155x4x4

Seated Push Press: 70x5, 80x5, 90x5, 90x5 (PR? No? Okay)

Tricep Extension (On cable): 80x10, 80x8, 80x6, 90x4

Russian Twists: 3x20

Crunches: 3x30

V-ups: 3x15

what is the point of high-volume snatch pulls? do you mean snatch grip dead lifts?

Thursday 8/30/2012:

Hang Clean: 115/5, 115/5, 115/5

Incline DB Bench Press: 55/5, 55/5, 60/5 

Pushups: 25, 25, 25, 25 (Hot damn...)

Tri pushdowns: 110/10, 120/8, 140/6, 140/6

Dips: 8, 8, 8, 8

Forced to skip core in order to make it back to the university for jazz auditions. I'm okay with this.

Side note: played marching band for a game the same day. Felt like my arms were gonna fall off when I was holding my trumpet up to play the alma mater and anthem.