Jason's Journal

[jason2459]

Week 9/Day 1
warm up

ME Bench
Rev. Band Bench
1xseveral@bar, 135

Added Light bands
1x3@185, 225, 275, 295, 315, 335 PR
1xstapled@365
1xmiss@365

Pissed off and looked to see what the hell was wrong and I used an Avg Band and not a Light band.... pisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssed

Took off light band and Added Avg. Band
screw 365
1x1@385 PR

RE
Pull ups
6x5

Front/Side Raises w/ 10lbs plates

Light Band tricep pushdowns
100


Comments
Damn I need to read my own journal... I had 385 in my head all day. As I was working up I was like damn this feels heavier then it should. I got to 335 and felt that was pretty damn close to a 1RM. I said no way I hit 375 before and I've never NOT hit a PR on a max effort day. Slapped on 365... stapled. I was like WTF is going on today. My back is cramping up like heck... but I've dealt with that before... I'm tired as hell but again I'm always tired as hell.... I still felt the tricep presses from friday... I've been sore before...I know I've lost like 3in on the belly and about a 1 board off my full range bench but I'm still getting stronger... WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!... So, I went for it again all pissed off. Got about 3/4 the way up and just couldn't get it the rest of the way. WTF!!! Still racking my brain. Not like this was even my previous 1RM. ! Kept going through my head. WTF!!! I get on my phone and look back on my journal.... A FUGING AVG BAND! No freaking wonder everything felt heavier then I was expecting with the light band. Swapped it out and just went right for 385 as I wasted a lot of energy on the previous two attempts at 365 with the light band. Hit 385 pretty easy. PR

Video

[jason2459]

Week 9/Day 2
warm up

DE SQ/DL
Squats

14" Box
1xseveral@bar, 135

Add Monster Mini band
1x3@135, 185

10x2@205

DL vs. dbled monster mini
1x2@135, 185
8x1@225


RE
Seated band leg curls w/ monster mini
5x12

Spread eagle situps
1x5 w/ 10lbs plate behind head
1x2 w/ 10lbs " "
5x5

Comments
Felt pretty good. Feel like I'm getting my setup down on the squats and like my new hand placement with just the meat of my palms on the par and kind of hook over top of the bar with my pinky. Can see in the vid and will upload tomorrow. Pulls started out a bit slow and got better. Very happy to see Bands on sale on EFS and getting a new set of the onyx Mini, monster mini, light, and Avg bands. Been waiting for a good band sale as the bands I have now are 4 years old as I bought a new set after I lost my original set in the 2008 flood.

Video

[jason2459]

Week 9/Day 3
warm up

DE Bench
Bench
1xseveral@bar, 135, 155

add chains
8x3@155 w/ various narrow grips


RE
Incline Bench
1x8@135
4x6@135

CSR
5x10 w/dbled light band

1 arm landmine press
1x20@25
1x12@50
3x12@70


Comments
Felt good tonight. Need to up the bar weight a little next time.

Video

[jason2459]

Week 9/Day 4
warm up

ME SQ/DL
14" Box
1xseveral@bar, 135
1x3@185, 225, 245
1x2@275, 295, 315, 335
1x1@365, 385, 405
1xmiss@425 Gave up on the bottom and pissed me off
1x1@425 PR

RE
GM
1x12@135
4x8@185

Peterson Stepups
4x8

Standing Ab Pulldowns
5x20 w/ avg band


Comments
I was going to go into tonight doing some suspended GMs but ended up doing some box squats and hitting the GMs as a supplemental. Lower back is still stiff but getting better. Hips felt good tonight, shoulders felt good, neck felt good, forearm felt good, and starting to finally get my body put back together. Sick of training around pain particularly my squats and deads. Sick of complaining. Sick of being a pussy. If Jacob you are reading this you are right about one thing is that I should be a hell of a lot stronger right now but I don't regret putting my community and my family first the past 4 years. I can't look back because it's not going to change anything right now and I can only work harder going forward to get caught back up with my goals. So far, considering everything I'm damn happy with my progress so far getting started back up.

Tonight I ended up on a mission to hit 425. Bring down what I hit on the 16" box a couple weeks ago and up my 405 on the 14" box 4 weeks ago. My mind gave up on me on the first attempt at 425 and I just put it down. Sat there and just started to rage. This is one thing that is easier to do when you train with a team. Because everyone is getting more pissed off as the weights get heavier. At least that's what it was like when I was lifting with a team.

4 weeks out and this puts me possibly around 475 on the squat. I'm looking at about 300 on the bench. Then do what ever I have to do to hit 500 on the pull to get at least 1275. I'll be really happy if I can pull that off. Everything over that is gravy.

Video

[jason2459]

Week 10/Day 1
warm up

ME Bench
Bench
1xseveral@bar, 135
1x5@185, 205

2 Board
1x3@225, 245, 275, 295
1x1@315, 335, 350 PR


RE
CGBP
1x5@225, 245, 245
1x3@275 PR

Bradford Press
4x10@95

Reverse Fly
4x20 w/ mini band

Tricep Pushdown
100 w/ monster mini


Comments
Hit 199lbs bw this morning and looks like I'll be in the 198 class. Only 3 weeks of training left. I'm certainly feeling the loss of 4" off my belly, down to 37" from 41". I'm glad I'm doing this now. I look forward to switching over to density bulking after this meet.

[jason2459]

Week 10/Day 2
warm up

DE SQ/DL
14" Box
1xseveral@bar, 135

Light band added
1x2@185
8x2@205


RE
GHR
4x12

Hanging Leg Raises
4x12

Comments
WTF. Back is actually starting to feel ok. Forearm... not so much again. Went to pickup my son earlier tonight and it flaired right up. Pissed me the f'off. Going into tonight I was thinking I was finally going to be feeling good all over for once. Ice is once again in use as it has been almost constantly on some body part for the past several months. Everythign else felt right on tonight with the squats. GHR finished off my hammies. Going back to monster mini's next week and work up lights and finish off with averages just before the deload leading up to the meet.

[jason2459]

Week 10/Day 3
warm up

DE Bench
Bench
1xseveral@bar, 135

Add dbled mini's
1x3@135
8x3@155 w/ various grips

RE
Incline Bench
135x10
155x8
165x6
185x3

High incline Peanut's Press
1x10@65
2x8@75
1x5@95

45deg Side Raises
4x10 w/ 25lb plate


Comments
Slapped on some equiblock yesterday and let my forearms burn all day and night and day but they didn't bother me at all tonight. Went in to see the Chiro today too and got some ART on the lower back and forearm. Going in once a week right now and will up to the meet. Then probably go in every other week. Ice, Tens, Foam, inversion as well. Pretty much everything I can to get pain free and it's paying off.

[jason2459]

Week 10/Day 4
warm up

ME SQ/DL
Mid shin 1 pin DL
a few @135
Conv. 225, 275, 295, 315, 335, 365, 385, 405
Sumo. 225, 275, 295, 315, 335, 365, 385, 405, 425 PR, 435 PR

RE
GHR
1x15
1x10
3x8

Reverse Hyper
4x have no idea how to count these yet as I'm just go for it@90

Spread eagle situps
4x8


Comments
I really really hate rack pulls. I've always been weakest at rack pulls. got the 425 on vid but screwed up the 435. This easily puts me at least at 475 with a good deadlift bar from a normal starting position.

I LOVE the reverse hyper. Wow, talking about being able to strengthen and rehabilitate at the same time is no lie. I've been doing these just about every day for the past couple days and has really help streatch out and make my lower back feel better. I was feeling it literally right along the spine like my spine was stiff and not the muscles. This helped that a ton. Now my muscles feel stiff and my spine is all good. lol But that's a good thing I think. Muscle stiffness and soreness I feel much better about then feeling like my spine is fusing together. Will be uploading some more videos of this rack mount reverse hyper I built and show mounting and unmounting it.

[jason2459]

Week 11/Day 1
warm up

RE/ME Bench
Illegal Wide
1xseveral@bar,95
1x6@115, 135, 155, 185, 205, 225, 245 PR


RE
Bench
1x5@225, 245, 275 PR

JM Press
1x12@95
1x10@115
2x8@125

Fat Man Rows
50

Pull Aparts
a bunch w/ mini


Comments
Actually feel good coming out of this weekend besides being sick. Everyone is sharing some kind of cold but physically feel really pretty good. Just felt like doing some illegal wides and going for some volume tonight. Matched my all time PR on the illegal wides and bumped up my 275 for reps.

Video

[jason2459]

Week 11/Day 2
warm up

DE SQ/DL

13" Box
1xseveral@bar, 135

Add Monster Mini's
1x3@155, 185
10x2@205

DL vs. mini's
8x1@205


RE
GHR
1x12
4x6 w/ 10lbs plate on chest PR lol

Peterson Step-ups
4x10 on 13" Box

Hanging Leg Raises
4x12

Reverse Hypers
4 sets @140


Comments
Man I feel ready for this meet now. Just need to stay healthy until then. I've had some bad luck leading up a meet in the past. Last meet I did I fell backward onto a pointed rock and broke a rib a few weeks before the meet. Looking back I'm still glad I did that meet though it was extremely painful and passed out at least once. Meet before that I had slipped on some ice and pulled a tendon in my hamstring leading up to that meet. Then I think the meet before that I had some food poisoning. Damn, maybe I shouldn't do meets... lol

I upped the weight on the GHR's tonight for the first time ever I actually used some weight. Form broke down to hell but I still did it. Also, upped the weight on the reverse hypers from what I've been doing the past few days. That really put a pump in my lower back. I really need to work on getting my hips in. I do feel like I'm getting them opened up a bit more.

[byronsru24]

16hr days....that sucks man. Good to see your still training and doing what you can. Stop by my journal sometime if you haven't yet....I've made some progress since I was last posting

[jason2459]

Week 11/Day 3
warm up

DE Bench
Bench
1xmany@bar,135

Add dbled mini bands
1x3@135
8x3@155 w/ IMRP rotation

RE
Tate Presses
4x8@55

DB BOR
4x8@90

Standing Band Snatches
4x12 w/ monster mini

Comments
1 more dynamic bench day

[jason2459]

16hr days....that sucks man. Good to see your still training and doing what you can. Stop by my journal sometime if you haven't yet....I've made some progress since I was last posting

Awesome!! Good to see you around. Yeah, new state, new house, new familiy, new job, new everything it seems. Work is a lot tougher but well worth it to be able to let the wife stay home with the kids. Heading over to your journal now.

[H_M]

when you're squatting in briefs make sure you:

stay tight
keep your arch
take your time in the hole
spread your knees out when the briefs bind up
keep your form tight
don't plop on the box
start sitting down when the briefs bind up
keep your chest up
don't fold over

[jason2459]

when you're squatting in briefs make sure you:

stay tight
keep your arch
take your time in the hole
spread your knees out when the briefs bind up
keep your form tight
don't plop on the box
start sitting down when the briefs bind up
keep your chest up
don't fold over

Thanks. I'll try and concentrate on more mental ques.

[jason2459]

Well, I just suck now don't I.

[jason2459]

Cliff:
Poor Excuses
Meet Oct. 27th This year.
Beginning next year hit 1300+
End next year close in on 1400
With in the next 3 years break 1675

Short Long Story: Another complicated Pregnancy, Issues with Tumors in new baby Girl who is now 1 and much better now with the help of some medication, Son is now 3 and a complete terror and still waking me up through out the night and only getting 3-5 hours of sleep in, no more babies on the way, and getting back on track with training FINALLY...

Started backup 5 months ago weaker and more out of shape then I think I have ever been in my life. I maintained my weight at a good 210-215lbs but it was certainly not muscle unfortunately. I've reduced my weight and have been hitting PR's every week since then but that's not hard considering I was struggling to hit 315 to a 14" box and barely hitting 225 on the bench. Pretty crappy.

With being so out of shape as well I've been dealing with several injuries in the neck, shoulder, hip, and lower back. All of which have gotten better through a lot of work to get rehab in many different ways. But the future looks good. I'm feeling so much better, getting back in it consistently, and don't foresee anymore hiccups.

I went ahead and signed up for a come back meet at the end of this month on Oct. 27 so my training is prepping for that now. I just want to get back on the platform again then hit another meet beginning of next year and hit my all time total again. Then get back on track with my original goals I set several years ago before the flood and flood of kids. So, there it is.

[jason2459]

Just went back the past two pages and modified my posts to reflect my current training I've been doing the past couple weeks up to where I'm at today. So people's comments may seem out of place. Oh well. I'm not looking back anymore and need to move forward with what I'm doing now.

I have added a nice reverse hyper to my setup that I built

DIY rackmount reverse hyper:

Video

[jason2459]

Week 11/Day 4
warm up

ME SQ/DL
13" Box
1xseveral@bar, 135, 185
1x2@225, 275, 295, 315
1x1@335 PR, 365 PR, 385 PR, 405 PR

RE
GM
4x8@225

GHR
5x8

Standing Ab Pulldowns
5x20 w/ Avg. Band

Reverse Hypers
severalxmany@90

Comments
That was awesome. It's been 3 months since I've gotten below a 14" box because of the hip pain but no more. Hips feel good even after that session. So, since it's been a good 3 months of coarse I smashed some PR's so that's not to crazy but I did hit the mark I wanted going into tonight of 405. It was a grinder and I about pooped my pants but I finally got my hips into it. Form was just terrible though all the way through and had to keep correcting myself but still happy I was able to get down with out any hip pain.

[jason2459]

13" Box squats (terrible camera angles too...)

Video

[jason2459]

Week 12/Day 1
warm up

ME Bench
Bench
1xseveral@bar, 135
1x3@155, 185

1 Board
1x3@225, 245, 275
1x1@295, 315, 335 PR

RE
3 Board POR
3x3@315

BOR
1x10@135
4x6@185

Front Raises
4x8@25

Standing Band Rolling Tricep Ext.
55 w/ light band

Comments
That's that. Last max effort day before the meet. Felt good. No major back cramping at least nothing beyond normal. Hit what I wanted going into tonight and feel really good about my bench. Squat and deadlift are behind but I trained around injury and pain the best I could. Really looking forward to getting my squat and deadlift back up for the beginning of next year.

Openers should be
Squat: 408
Bench: 280
DL: 430

And go from there.

[jason2459]

ME Bench 1 Board
295x1, 315x1, 335x1 PR

Video

[jason2459]

Week 12/Day 2
warm up

DE SQ/DL
13" Box
1x5@bar, 135

Add Light Band
1x2@155, 185
10x2@205

DL vs. mini band
8x1@225

RE
Pull Throughs
afewxseveral w/ avg band

Roman Chair situps
abunchxmany

RH
yupxdidthem@140


Comments
Ready to deload. Almost there.

[jason2459]

Week 12/Day 3
warm up

DE Bench
Bench
1x5@bar, 135

Doubled mini's added
1x5@135
8x3@155


RE
Standing Band Rolling Tricep Ext. w/ Avg band
1x10
2x8
1x6

Pull ups
1x10
3x8

Band Pull aparts w/ mini
4x20


Comments
17 days out. Friday I'll deload my max effort work with working up to my squat and deadlift openers. Sunday same thing and work up to my bench openers. Then hit my normal DE squat/dl and bench days next week and call it good until the meet.

[byronsru24]

Good job on the squats and bench man. Looks like you got a good meet comming your way if you deload and rest up!