Grab yo'self a barbell sista!

After all the recent frustrations, we have a plan - it may not go anywhere, or do anything, but I feel like I'm at least trying.  Shockingly, everything seems to always come down to food these days.  Now we are going with 5 "feeding opportunities" a day.....and upping the calories.  All I can say is Good Lord!! it's alot of food. Although, it was rather humorous this morning as I was walking into work, having eaten breakfast already, but still carrying 4 or 5 tupperware containers with food in them, I spotted the person next to me, carrying their one little containeer of salad.  It felt so disproportionately wrong, it was darn near laughable.  However, I'm game.  Theoretically it makes sense, so we will see what the outcome is later.  Suffice it to say, I have tabled my frustrations for now.

Yesterday was a new one:
Back Squat - 3/3/3, Bench Press 3/3/3, Pullups 3/3/3 least resistance or for weight.
I will say, I think my confidence on Squat and Bench is a bit shot, so I probably didn't go quite as heavy as I should have.  Mentally though, I needed to successfully get 3 in for all rounds.
Squats - I started at 175, no problem, although my knees were still a bit on the wonky side.
next round 195, still ok, not fabulous, but ok.  Last round 215, the good news? I didn't fail, but they weren't exactly pretty.
Bench Press - I started at 125, no problem, next round 135, apparently better looking than the 125, last round 145.  Well, I only got in two.  DRATS!  I wanted 3, but it just wasn't going to happen.  Not tonight.
Pullups - this is were things got a bit more interesting.  All pullups were deadhang.  First round I used 1 red and 1 mini - no problem (it's only 3 after all!), round 2, I went with a single red.  I got in 2 and 7/8 (this is according to Jonathan - so almost there, but not quite..) Last round I did two minis.  The three pullups were not an issue (I'm not certain which is stonger, 2 minis or one red).  Then I got a bit cocky and decided to try one mini.  Big time failure!!  It's amazing that one tiny little band can make that big of a difference.  Overall, I felt pretty good about the pullups, so despite the bench failure, the night ended on an up note.

Tonight was  "Barbell Hell"!!
Tabata intervals applied in turn to: Push jerks, Cleans, SDLHP, Floor Press, and Deadlifts.  With a one minute rest between exercises.
I was debating on where to start on this.  I think if it had been anything but Tabata I would have tried the 95lbs.  Because that whole Tabata thing was thrown in there, it put a new level of hell into the whole workout.  So I did everything at 85#, except for the Deadlift, which was a joyous 185.  Here's my night:
Deadlift -Holy moly, the 185 felt heavy to begin with - perhaps I should have done some Deadlift warmups before starting......  hmmm - ya think??  I started off the first round getting 7 or 8 ...after that though,  I slowed down - way down - at some point I determined my goal was 4 for each 20 second interval.  My final Deadlift score was 34.  A tad bit more than 4 per round.....sorta. 
Floor Press - The hard part was getting the bar up.  But round one, I cranked through, getting in 12 or 14.  After that I slowly deteriorated.   By the end, getting in 3 was a struggle.  My final score was 39.  Not quite 5 per round on average.
Clean:  These were full on squat cleans, none of that wussy power clean stuff, pull the bar up, land in a full squat and stand up.  First round I got in 3, after that it was 2 per.  Although there was one clean that I forgot the stand up part on...WHOOPS! Funny what exhaustion will do to your brain!! End score was 17.
Push Jerks: At this point, I was suckin' wind.  My body was pretty depleted, but had to keep going....I started off, round 1, pretty good- I got in 5.  It was hit or miss after that, some round I got in 5, but one round, I know I got a measly 1 in.  Final score - 31.  Not quite 4 per round on average.
SDLHP : Doing these at the end was rather miserable, I must admit.  My arms did not want to pull them up at all, I knew that - the hips did their work, but I had a bit of a block on my right arm, that just said no.  They weren't terrible, but they hit about mid chest.  Jonathan told me to go higher, so I tried and in the end got about 1/2 of them really high.  End score 35.

So - in comparison to last time:
Deadlift:  last time  35 at 140#, this time 34 at 185# - YAY! about the same, much heavier!
Floor Press: last time: 60 at 70#, this time 39 at 85# - hmm?? not really sure how that relates, I think it's ok..
Cleans: last time: 37 at 70# power cleans, this time 17 at 85# full on squat cleans.  17 is fine - full squat cleans are a billion times harder and take alot longer!
Push Jerks: last time 60 @70#, this time 31 at 85#, ok - this was kind of a dramatic difference. 15 lbs should not have cut the reps in half - the difference - I started with Push Jerks last time, so I was totally fresh, not in the delirium I was in tonight (may be BS, but I'm going with it!).
SDLHP - last tiem 51 at 70#, this time 35 at 85#   those are some big 15 pounds, all I'm gonna say.


Not terrible.  Considering that from the cleans on, I felt all the food I've been stuffing myself with, and continued on without vomiting, I'd say downright good!