Thurs, 28 Jan 16

Since Wed training was moved to Tues, we decided to also move up Fri training to Thurs.  Today was just fun because we did a lot of stuff that I hadn't done in a long time.  I gotta give credit to THE Mountain Dog, John Meadows, for the inspiration for the incline reverse crunches.  I've done them before using an incline/decline ab bench at a commercial gym, but seeing his variation holding the tricep rope on his IG made me realize I could also do that in my garage with my elitefts 0-90 degree bench, my 3x3 rack, and a tricep rope.  They worked even better than advertised and I believe will be a staple for a long time to come.

Kneeling Jump to Box Jump

3x12"

3x18"

3x24"

3x30"

3x36"

3x36" + 2 mats - I've never done this jump variation before so I started very low and worked up until I found a height that was appropriately difficult.

Axle Zydrunas Press

10x45 - Barbell

5x70

3x120

2x8x160

10x160 - My first set on these was slow and awful, but by the third set it felt much better.  This means I need more/heavier warmup sets next time.

Straight Arm Lat Pulldowns

12x25

2x12x70

12x75

Seated Alternating Single Arm Pause Curls/Piston Pushdowns

3x{15ea x 15/15ea x light bands}

Incline Reverse Crunches/Single Leg Back Extensions

3x{15xBW/10ea x BW} - Meadows knows his stuff (obviously) and not surprisingly I was a big fan of the reverse crunches.  The single leg back extensions also seemed to be better today in terms of my ability to control lateral trunk flexion and trunk rotation.