Did a recovery workout not worth logging. So, I think I am at the point where doing squat & deadlift on intensity day is too much, so I am going to divide up squat and deadlift intensity workouts to see how this works for me. Today was a squat intensity day. I plan on doing the deadlift one either in a couple days before volume day or do another full cycle and do deadlift intensity next week, haven't decided yet, gonna see how my body feels.

Sat 8/6/11 Intensity squat

Was planning on 330, but wussed out at last second and did 325.

325x6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60tnXdZmgE (special thanks to those who suggested the youtube video editor, didn't even know there was one)

Haven't done a squat video in a while. Some notes:
1. I might actually be going too low and giving up some weight. On the 6th rep I bounce off the pins and almost lose the lift. Have to be careful about this, I was fine this time but I can imagine hurting myself this way.

2. No matter how strong I get, I can't seem to get any hypertrophy going in the calves (or really anywhere else for that matter). May have to get some implants for this.

Press
150x5
-Not too bad. My all time press PR is 155x5, and I think this is attainable at current strength levels.

Pull thrus
-wanted to do some extra leg work. Unfortunately, I load these as heavy as I can and it is still easy so this turned into more of a conditioning exercise than anything else.

Skull crushers
-Used an EZ bar and did them the way Rip recommends going down behind the head. Worked up to (bar+60)x8. Not sure what the bar weighs, probably somewhere 25-35. Anyone know what the basic 24 HR EZ bar weighs?

Reverse crunch

C2 rower
500mx2
-very hard, LOL endurance. The second time I got it down to 1:45, but I was jerking it real hard at the end of each stroke to add distance, so I do not know if this is cheating or not.

sweet squats bro. you may be right about going to deep/losing hamstring tension.

Yeah, something to work on.

Workout Tuesday 8/9/11

-So I had the brilliant idea of getting a deep tissue massage yesterday. The girl completely brutalized my hamstrings which were very sore today so squats were definitely out.

-Decided to throw in a deadlift/back day.

-Was back to my normal gym today so was deadlifting with the 10 sided plates again. Ghey. Whether it was this or the massage or whatever didn't really have it today. Still moved some weight.

Deadlift 385
1x3
1x2
-Divided into 2 sets

Weighted Pullups
(+70) 3x4
BW 12 -grip started to give out here. Doing deadlifts right before this probably didn't help in this regard.

HIIT on elliptical. This was stupid, but the C2 rowers were all being used, so what can you do.

Workout Thursday 8/11/11

Squat 305 5x5
-not too bad. Hopefully have a couple more weeks of progress here.

Bench 225 4x5
-Just testing out the shoulder. Planned on 5 sets but shoulder started to ache a little so shut it down.

Pullthrus

Rip style skull crushers
90 lbs 3x10

wb.

Yeah, like cardio in real life 3 laps was more than enough and I am officially retiring from politarding.

If you learned to be a bit more subtle I bet you'd have near infinite amounts of fun trolling the Politards. They're very serious about their ideologies, especially the libtards.

Yeah, of course I imagine the jdock99 account would be on a short leash over there. I would probably have to switch to the jdock100 account so they do not know it is me.

Workout Saturday 8/13/11

Whole body felt like crap, but I guess that is what recovery day is for.

Squat 235x5x2
Press 115x5x3
Pullups 12,12,12
reverse crunch
C2 rower 500mx2 (1:45, 1:50) -after 2nd set of this my whole body was on fire and I could not move anything. I pretty much felt sick the rest of the day. LOL cardio.

<3 <3

Workout Tuesday 8/16/11

Squat intensity
-worked up to 335x5

-I hurt my lower back on one of the warm up sets. Basically I was worried about failure so I did a "practice fail" with 135 and hurt my lower back doing this. LOL. Luckily it took a few minutes for the pain to slowly set in so I was able to get through the squat workout ok, but no way I was gonna do DL. It is pretty tight/painful right now. I hope I will be able to recover in a couple days, but donno, gonna ice tonight and play it by ear.

-Also, the whites of my eyes were pretty red after this set. I am guessing some blood vessels bursting. Standard?

Bench
worked up to 250x5
-I feel I have lost a little strength here from laying off too much, but my shoulder is feeling ok so I guess worth it.

Cable rows

reverse crunch

Has happened to me a few times, hopefully its standard...

I've seen a bunch of guys on Rip's board ask about the red eyes as well, I think he said it was fairly std.

If you have a foam roller, you can try rolling your lower back, but avoid the spine. I.e. do one side at a time. If you don't have a foam roller, well, lol.

Yeah, no foam roller. Although I think I am gonna do some deep tissue massage tonight, so having a 100 pound Thai woman walking around on my back should be a pretty good substitute, right?