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5/3/1 July 2012

Today, I finished another 5/3/1 cylce. Tomorrow, I'll be on my way to Poland for a short vacation with my family. Good time for a deload week. The Program  I've covered the basic idea of 5/3/1 as well as my tweaks in quite a couple of posts, so here I'll just present the weekly schedule: Monday: Power Snatch from Hang, Power Clean from Hang Wednesday: Deadlift, Bench Press Friday: Squat, Shoulder Press I didn't always manage to stick to those days, so this week, for example, I had to work out on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. However, the general idea should be clear. For energy system work, I did the following: Tuesday: Anaerobic capacity (stationary bike sprints, I1/I3) Thursday: Aerobic capacity (steady state stationary bike, I1) Also, this time I tossed in some assistance work. After each 5/3/1 session, I'd do 4 sets of pullups to technical failure with 90 seconds of rest in between sets. The stats As a base for my calculations, I used the fo...

All the crazy stuff... (conditioning 2011-05-21)

Alright, Chris and Elias came back from their tournaments (they just recently fought in Germany, then in Steinbrunn, Austria, and each of them scored medlas in both tournaments), so we went back to doing our saturday sessions again. Due to a high level of fatigue, we skipped circuit training this time and focused on really implementing new stuff instead. In the following, I'll show you some of the cooler exercise - the highlights, if you wish. Just give some of those a try in your next workout, you won't regret it. Suspended Reach Side-Plank Ok, quite frankly, I've no idea how this exercise is really called. Regardless how one might call this beauty, it definately rocks the core. The setup is pretty simple, so instead of describing it in theory, I just put up a video. Enjoy! Single Arm Power Pull Another great way to work the core is the single arm power pull. I first saw this on the "TRX Essentials / Cardio circuit DVD" and instantly liked it. Pulling strength an...