Squats

405 x 5

315 x 15 (high bar)

Romanian deadlifts

315 x 2 x 8

Barbell shrugs

315 x 3 x 8

Reverse-hyper single leg curls

6 plates x 2 x 15

Getting used to heavy squats again. Weight felt very light when squatting up thanks to all those heavy belt squats I've been doing; it was controlling the descent that felt predictably rusty. Felt good to really blast my legs again, though.

As mentioned before, my body has been feeling beat-up so I'm shifting my iron goals back to powerlifting for the time being. Out of necessity I had already been winding things down by gradually doing away with log lifts, cleans, and most recently sandbag loading and carries. I'll still do loaded carries once my upper-back is 100%, which feels like today. Being able to do cleans without bicep pain will take more time, but when I'm able to, I'd love to position those ahead of deadlifts once again. 

My left forearm is feeling pain now, but only on particular movements. On Saturday, I went on a short jog near an outdoor gym that has battle ropes, and as soon as I whipped the ropes my forearm seared with pain. The other incident was double overhanding 315 for RDLs; forearm couldn't handle that. 

These 7 months of strongman training were invaluable. My shoulders and traps were more filled out than usual at this weight and I've learned a ton about being better at log pressing and platform loading. I'll have a solid foundation to return to when I can. In the meantime, I'm looking around for powerlifting meets in my area.

Shifting gears here, I eagerly opened up my boxing sign-up email to register for sparring only to again read that there is no sparring this week without further explanation. It's been really challenging to find opportunities to spar. I'm planning on talking to the sparring coach about his master's team, which I understand is on a different sparring schedule from the regular classes.