Came back from a great birthday weekend for Eli in Santa Rosa. Ate really well, although being in a weight lose phase went a long way to allowing me to enjoy the weekend and not think about food all the time. 

After getting back I did some 2 rounds of 5 minute shadowboxing rounds: first with 3 lb weights, second with no weight, and then a light jog for about 10 minutes.

Monday morning: 20 burpees

Evening after work:

Squats (high bar): 300 x 20

Super-set with axle deadlifts: 320 x 20

One of the competition events is a 375 yoke walk for 50 feet paired with deadlifting 315 for reps until the minute is over. I'm subbing 20-rep squats for the yoke, which I feel is making the combo harder. Again, that will be the lightest yoke walk I've done. Obviously this is not under a minute, either, but I'm going for pain and suffering so the minute of work feels easy in comparison. 

My right knee randomly started feeling tender and hurting a couple of times when bending down during the work day so I was unsure if I'd be able to hit this workout. I planned to see how warm-ups felt and go from there, but it was all fine. I'm not ashamed to say I took rest pauses every 5 reps on the deadlifts: hitting them dead-stop instead of touch-and-go to simulate the competition and using an axle made them really suck. The competition doesn't specify it'll be an axle, but I've never done axle deadlifts at home before and this is a good time to introduce the suckage. One thing I'll want to keep in mind is practicing getting my wraps around the bar as quickly as possible, which I'll practice with a normal barbell as well as the axle.

On the equipment front, I'll be ordering new elbow sleeves as my SBDs are around a decade old and have gotten stretched out, along with a grip shirt and MAYBE new straps just as a bonus. My strap situation is comical: I lost 1 Ironmind strap and 1 generic Amazon strap, so I'm using 1 of each. And I actually prefer the feel of the generic because it has a rougher texture to it.