Friday, August 10, 2012

Can't Stop me now... Diesel!!!

This week has been very busy and very hectic.  HOWEVER!  I have Smashed through some PR's and I feel like I am ON FIRE,  Like I am UNSTOPPABLE!  it's a great feeling.   everyone knows that the gym keeps you on ups and downs...  For a while you feel like you're in a slump, not performing quite like you want, then all the sudden the tables turn and a hot streak emerges!

So my week looks a little something like this, and trust me, I'll let you know which workouts and loads were busting my old PR's.

Monday
Shoulder Press 1-1-1-1-1
115,135,135,145,155F
Push press 3-3-3-3-3
115,125,135,145,155
Push Jerk 5-5-5-5-5
115,135,155,165,175 (175 x5 is a PR!)

then 5 rounds of
Snatch @ 115 x 5
OHS @ 115 x 3
 then
Max Pull ups - 41
30x Toes 2 Bar

Tuesday
15 rounds of:
power snatch immediately into 5 OHS

90,90,90,90,90
110,110,120,120,120
135,145,145,155F,145

Wednesday - Rest day (had to go out of town for the day)

thursday
Double unders
3 sets of 50 (stretch between sets for warm up)

Push jerk 5x3 @ 135#
Split Jerk 5x3 @ 135#
Push jerk 5x2 @ 176#
Split Jerk 6x2 @ 176#

Double unders
5 sets of 25 (stretch between sets)

Friday
OHS 1-1-1-1-1
155,165,175,185,198(NEW PR, SMASHED THE OLD 190# PR LIKE A BOSS!!)
Front SQT 1-1-1-1-1
220,230,240,250-255
Back SQT 1-1-1-1-1
265-265-275-275-285

So,  Ive been working hard and eating right, gained about 8 pounds in the past few weeks(and it aint fat)  And even though Ive been training for a pretty good while.  seeing hard work pay off is the motivator of all motivators!!  My Over Head Squat PR of 190 was from just a few weeks ago, and today I smashed it by OHSing 198.  Everyone around me could tell i had busted a PR  as soon as locked out and threw the weight to the ground, jumping around and doing some sort of ridiculous "victory dance".
Ok, thats fun and all, but really it comes down to this.  Measurable progress is what its all about.  keeping track of loads, times, rounds complete or what ever it may be, and then "retesting" at a later date to compare the results, and when the result is in the positive, well it just feels good to see hard work pay off.

How do you track/measure your progress?  What is your motivator?  How long can this "Hot streak" stay HOT??

Maintaining a sufficient carb intake (enough for fuel and recovery, but not so much that it promotes storage for fats), high protein intake, and a recently introduced higher caloric intake(I found that I was not taking in enough calories daily to build, I was barely taking in enough to maintain and recover)
This has been my most recent "trial by paleo" and so far so good!!!

2 comments:

  1. Hey numb nuts...what happened to telling us your weekly diet??? I'm trying to be a cave woman when I grow up and I wanna know what cavemen eat. Enlighten me.

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  2. Ok. Ok. I'll do better. I've been logging my training. But I keep forgetting to log the diet and by the time I post on the blog I can remember the details.

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