After my success on Wednesday with the 8x140kg I thought I would have a go at a new PB. I tried with 185kg but just could not commit to the second phase and therefore did not get depth.

I am going to change up my strength days from 1x8 to 5,5,3,3,1,1 for the month of august and see how I go.

I have not done much lately due to illness. Haven't really had the flu just achy joints and muscles. feeling better last night.

In my January post "You can tick that off my list" I wrote about how happy I was that my new work sets for 3x5 was now 140kg. Well last night my 1x8 was 140kg, a new milestone. The thing that I find hardest about between the 8 and 5 reps is the fatigue in the core.

Another good session last night. Small turn out in the shed, hopefully due to the State of Origin.

Squat: Hit a new PB with 8x135kg. Bloody hard work. This Sunday I will up to 140kg. My new goal is to hit 10 x 140kg as Rippetoe demonstrated in his youtube Video. I think just 8x will be hard enough this weekend.



Dead Lift: Here I just worked up to 120kg with sets of 5 then one successful rep at 170kg. Instead of being cautious I added another 10kg and went for the 180kg. No good, should have went for the extra 2.5kg. On Sunday I will just do 160kg x 5 and then have another attempt next Wednesday.

Press: Been a while since i did some pressing. I was also running out of time. just went up in 20kg intervals. Had to utilises push presses to get the 8x 80kg out.

It has been a while since I have posted. Really have not had that much to write about. I am still working on the x8 program. For the squat i am only doing 1x8, that is enough for now. I have set a new PB for deadlift so that makes me happy.

Sunday 6th

Did not get out to the shed with the group due to family commitments. When I did get to the shed Just did some presses and rack pulls.

Press: I did 3x8 at 50kg, these x8 eights really suck.

Rack Pull: Had a tender knee from the three hour karate class the day before. Didn't really feel comfortable putting the joint through the full range of movement for the Squat. I managed to load the bar up to 202.5kg. the bar i was using was a 22.5 bar. Any way, did 5x1. This has to be one of the best abb workouts ever. Come Tuesday my lower stomach was killing me. I am going to do more of these as the weeks go on.

Wednesday
Had another good session with the guys. Two gym records were beaten but unfortunately neither were buy myself. A new guy that we have working out with Brendon set a 500m time of 125kg and pulled 210kg off the floor. Fortunately I did post a new Pd for the Deadlift.

Squat: As stated before I have been just doing 1x8 for the squat. This not that hard to complete and I am ready to increase by 5kg, I just do not have a second set in me.

Deadlift: After watching some impressive DL from pete i decided to give all i had. Pete hit a new Pb of 130kg. My work sets were 8x60, 8x100, 5x120, 1x160 and 1x170kg. And the weird thing is it felts quite easy and I look forward next week at attempting 180kg. My in ability to achieve a good DL is more psychological than any thing else. I can think of any other reason for the discrepantly between my 1RM squat and DL. I think that the Rack pulls really helped me get over both the mental and physical stopping ponts.