Cycle #5 **Week 4 Day 1+2**
** 5/3/1 Press: 5x40, 5x55, 5x60 **5/3/1 Squat: 5x100, 5x125, 5x150
Holy inconsistency shazbot. Yes, I'm still alive. Missed working out for pretty much 2 weeks straight. No boring but big today, no time.
Warmed up with some agile 8, leg swings, box jumps.
Cycle #5 **Week 1 Day 3**
Warm-up Bench: 5x70, 3x90, 3x105** 5/3/1 Bench: 5x115, 5x130, 7x150 **BBB Bench: 2x10x85 + 3x8x85 Tricep Extensions: ** 1x12x35lb + **4x12x45lb
Pretty easy day. Using right lats, and triceps more again. Boring But Big sets felt really light. I think the 2 month bodybuilder assistance isolation exercises contributed to overall increase in strength for bench. I made the move to sprinkle in some hypertrophy due to the assistance being so easy. I may or may not do this with the other core lifts, but I think I'm going to continue adding 1 or 2 post BBB hypertrophy exercises on the pressing days. Squats and deadlifts are fairly taxing on the body especially with the BBB sets so I think I'll forgo any hypertrophy after those exercises.
Cycle #5 Week 1 Day 2
Warm-up Squat: 5x100, 3x125, 3x150** 5/3/1 Squat: **5x165, 5x190, 5x215
No time for boring but big, but nonetheless, the top set was pretty brutal. Only 5 reps of 215 and I was having a tremendous amount of difficulty. Lack of volume training from the bodybuilder assistance scheme has definitely caused my strength to go down considerably. That and the inconsistent squatting/deadlifting. Other than that, the squats felt very good tight. I kept my trap shelf very tight, avoiding the bar to move up on the way down. In addition, I also tried to "snap" the bar over my upper back and this gave me a superbly stable shelf on my upper back. This was also very taxing on me as I was essentially squeezing my lats, and entire upper back and traps really hard.