Thursday, January 26, 2017

2017-01-26: Upper body volume day

Plus squats, of course.

Someone in #powerlifting pointed out to me that I seem to have unintentionally peaked myself at the end of November, and continued on with silly singles in most of December... and that's why I did a heck of a lot of PRs at the end of November, while then going weaker.

So.. tentative program, as much as I can stick to it (which might be difficult given all the travel I have to do in the next few months).


  • Squats: 5 times a week.  Volume on Mon,Wed,Fri.  Heavy single(s) on Tue, Thu.
  • Deadlifts: 3 times a week.  Volume on Mon,Fri.  Heavy single on Wed.
  • Overhead Press: 2 times a week.  Just volume for now.  Mon, Fri
  • Bench Press: 2 times a week.  Tue, Thu.  Just volume for a while
  • Barbell Row: 2 times a week.  Tue, Thu.  Just volume forever.

This leaves me with just Squats and Deadlifts on Wednesdays.. I was thinking that I need to do some Power Cleans and Power Snatches .. but doing that on wednesdays when my legs will be shivering like Jell-O seems like seems like a bad idea.  Pullups seems like a bad idea given the rows on both Tue and Thu.  Maybe I'll add some core exercises.  I hate'em.  But maybe I'll add some.


Todays Lifts

Barbell Squat

2x20kg
5x40kg
3x60kg
3x80kg
3x100kg
1x120kg
1x140kg
1x160kg

Volume: 1540kg

Barbell Row

5x8x60kg
20x60kg (PR)

Volume: 3600kg

OKay, I think maybe 60kg is too light for me as a training weight in Barbell Rows.  I just hate this exercise.  Maybe I should up it to 70kg or something.

Bench Press

20x20kg
10x40kg
10x50kg
10x60kg
10x70kg
10x80kg
3x8x80kg

Volume: 5320kg

Workout Volume: 10460kg

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