Shooting for 242 Master's National Record

[chicken_hawk]

5/3
WT 250.2

Saturday is DL and Front Press day and I am still weak from cutting. PLing while cutting is a different animal then while bbing since you are trying to progress in load and volume in PLing. While bbing you expect weakness to catch up to you. I am going into my heaviest week of the three so I am going to carb up over the weekend and then start my warrior diet again on Monday since last week beat me up pretty good.

Saturday
DL 330x5x3 (60%) I was weak but just decided to drill form and add one rep to each set from the week before.
F.Press 160x5,5,6,6 (weak)
DB curls 5x5-7

Had to go pick up my boy.

Hawk

 

[chicken_hawk]

5/5
WT 250.4

Pleased that my wt held over the weekend although I unintentionally ate less then I wanted.So, I will continue the warrior through the week in hopes of hitting 248 in the 80+ degree heat.

Squats were set for 85% 4 sets of 2. They were pretty tough, but on my third week and low on Cals I expected as much. They were actually easier then my last prep phase which used the same 1RM but with knee wraps so that's a good sign.

Now, my bench is still weak. Today's agenda was close grips which let me know my tri's are toast. It may be that Saturday's standing press is more than they can take. I did not include them last time and my bench was better. So, adjustments need to be made...we will see.

Monday (I will include warm ups for examples sake this time)
Squat 275x3,330x3,385x2,440x2,465x4x2
Close grip 135x5,205x5,250x5
Pull ups 5,5,6,6
Rev Crunch 12,8 (cramp...happens when dehydrated)
Mantis complex x3

Hawk

 

[chicken_hawk]

5/8
wt 249.4

Felt exeptionally good yesterday and have no idea why...I did heavy squats on Monday, I am calorie restricted, and worked in 90 degree sun. But, what do you know my 80% deads went up easy peasy.

Wednesday:
Deads 440x4x2 (easy for 2 days after 85% squats)
Bench 285x5x3 (bench felt better, but decided to stay light until Friday so I focused on my arch form)
Flys 85# 4,4,4,5
Front rse super set with side lats 4x6-8

Hawk

 

[chicken_hawk]

5/11
WT 250.2

Time to deload next week and I am due...feeling some fatigue, knees and elbows a bit sore as well.

Friday
Squat 410(75%)x4x3
Bench Pyramid 5% jumps from 70% to 85% and back down
Meadows rows 90x 6,6,6,6
It was late so I bailed early heck it Friday and 7PM

Saturday
DL 385(70%)x4x2
Standing front press 160x6,6,6,6
DB curls 4x60
Shoulder complex

 

[psych]

get some!

 

[chicken_hawk]

WT: 252
5/13

Missed Monday's workout as I had to pour concrete (in the rain) to set some fence posts and then only had an hour today to get in and out, but it's deload week so that worked. I had just enough time to do some light lifts and thank goodness as I am a bit weak and definitely feeling the fatigue from the previous weeks.

Squat 330(60%)x4x2
Bench 265(65%)x4x3
out of there...

Hawk

 

[chicken_hawk]

On another note I continue to gain weight even though I am trying to lose it...a good problem to have I suppose. I may have to ask psych how to hot bath the weight off...

Hawk

 

[psych]

On another note I continue to gain weight even though I am trying to lose it...a good problem to have I suppose. I may have to ask psych how to hot bath the weight off...

Hawk

With a hot Asian girl...

 

[Phoe2006]

Lmao classic response

 

[psych]

zing! mother fucker....

 

[chicken_hawk]

With a hot Asian girl...

I don't need to lose weight for that LOL

Hawk

 

[chicken_hawk]

5/17
Wt 249.6

It was a crazy ass week for hawk and he only made it to the gym twice...working late was mostly to blame and then two extra appointments I had to make are responsible for the rest.
Anyway, not happy with my weight I jumped on t-3 for the week and dropped like a rock down to 246.6 by Thursday so I stopped before I wasted away to nothing. I did some light deads and bench on Friday. The deads felt good even though my quads and lower back were a bit sore, but my bench sucked ass. So, I decided to train a little back and bi's as well to feel a bit better with myself and I did.

Next week will be heavy triples, then heavy doubles the following week and finally heavy singles before a two week deload.

Friday
DL 330 (60%)x4x2 felt smooth
Bench (pyramid up to 75% or 285 and back down) blah
Meadow rows 100x5,5,6,6
DB curls descending sets for 5 reps starting at 60#.

Hawk

 

[chicken_hawk]

5/20

I went a bit heavier yesterday in order to get used to handling some heavier weights. I also tried one set of walk out before my first set. I walked out and sat down 3 inches or so with 600 then dropped the weight to 475 (thought it was 465) and ground out a tuff triple. So I scrapped that concept right away as I was simply winded.

5/19 Monday
Warm up Box squat 275x3,330x3,385x3,440x3
Squat 475x3,495x3,515x3 (last set was pretty heavy but went up strong...had more in me for sure)
Close grips 135x5,185x5,225x5,260x4,4,4,4
Pull ups 4x6

Hawk

 

[chicken_hawk]

5/26
Wt:249

Missed a few days on the log, but pulled light on Wednesday then squatted and dl again on Friday. Saturday I did some heavy benching on Saturday which was a bit dissapointing.

My dissapointment only lasted a day though as some rest and refueling led to some solid singles.

Monday
Squat...no knee wraps
495x1
530x1
560x1
575x1 All lifts I had a call out and video depth confirmation...
My last meet in March with wraps was 566 and 575 went up strong!

Bench
245x4x3 still beat upnfrom Saturday.

Hawk

 

[squatster]

The heavy squats are fun -your making me want to go to the gym right now- I can't wait to get back up there again