Monday, May 19, 2025

After spending family time on Saturday, I trained three times on Sunday.

Morning:

Axle clean once and press
135 x 5
155 x 5
175 x 4 + 1
Super-set with band pull-aparts: 3 x 15

SSB front squats 
240 x 5
265 x 5
300 x 5
Super-set with neutral grip pull-ups: 3 x 12

Dumbbell incline press
85s x 8, 8
80s x 9
Super-set with lying dumbbell rows: 80s x 3 x 10

As soon as I pressed 135, sharp soreness in my triceps and shoulders flared up and stayed present the rest of the day. My traps also started to ache from cleaning the axle. Seems like I wasn't fully recovered from the grinding log reps I'd done on Friday. I was moving S-L-O-W on the dumbbell pressing, too.

Got that done, and then a few hours later:

2 rounds of 5 minutes jumping rope
1 round of 5 minutes shadowboxing
1 round of 2 minutes weighted shadowboxing, 3 lb hand weights
3 rounds of 5 minutes hitting the heavy bag

After dropping my visiting brother off at the airport, I came back and went on a 2.73 mile jog in 34:23.

In the middle of all that, I got a text from the coach asking me to spar his guy on Thursday. So I'm doing general sparring on Tuesday and then his sparring on Thursday.

I woke-up today feeling like I got hit by a truck, but glad I got a lot of training in before a busy week. Have also lost 5 lbs since last weigh-in and am down to an even 200.