Monday, March 3, 2025

Had an awesome weekend with family for Dad's birthday and ate a ton. Stone Stew + Eataly on Friday was good, but going to Eghbal's on Saturday was restorative for the soul. Haven't had everyone gathered around like that in a long time. 

I messed around with 2 press workouts over the weekend. On Saturday, I felt physically fatigued and worked-up to log clean and pressing 200 lbs after a couple of misses. Couldn't even clean it at first, then got it up for a grindy single that I had to immediately put back down to keep from blacking out. After a mental pep talk, I went up to the log with more conviction and did a stronger set of 2, popping the weight overhead without issue. Did a 5-minute heavy bag round right after and called it there, as I had a family dinner I didn't want to miss.

Since I had to cut that workout short, I returned the next day and worked up to axle push-pressing from the rack 220x2 after a couple of missed attempts, followed by Arnold pressing the 80 lb dumbbells for 3 sets of 8, super-setting that with chin-ups, and ending with skullcrushers and curls.

I still feel fatigued today and with a headache. I've been having a lot of coffee lately so I'm making a point not to have any today despite the energy crash. It's quite tough having this goal of upping my conditioning to do better in sparring at the boxing gym AND aim to get contest ready for strongman, but I love the puzzle. I think I need to be better organized with programming; to that end, I'm looking at strongman programs that are out there so I can have my days planned out more in advance than what I've been doing.