Jason’s BodyBlog

Week 10/ Day 2

Time to complete workout:
42m

ME SQ/DL
High Box Squat
1×3@bar, 135, 165, 185, 205, 225, 255, 275, 315, 365, 385, 405, 435, 455, 475
BELT UP
1xmiss@505 DAMN IT!!!
1×1@505 PR!!!!

I wanted to break through 500 today so badly. I put on 505 went down okay then on the way up I leaned forward and instead of trying to correct it I just laid it back down. I was angry. Brought it back up to the hooks for another go. Got it down and sat my but back into the box. Released the hips and came back up. Slowed down about half way up and I think I might have yelled out KEEP GOING because I was thinking it very strongly but after I got it up and racked it people were looking at me. Knees felt good so no wraps again today.

Assistance
Pull throughs
4×10@210

Hypers w/ double blue bands
4×8

Leg Extensions
1×15@????? Just quickly did these on the way back to the showers and stuck the pin about 3/4 down the stack.

B/W:199.8

Comments
HEAD IS POUNDING!!!! Did not want to get up today and did NOT want to have an ME day today with a raging headache.

Week 10/ Day 1

Time to complete workout:
46m

RE Bench
Bench
1xseveral@bar
1×15@135
1×10@165
2×10@185

Supplemental
Standing BB OHP
1xseveralmany@bar
1×3@135
1×2@135
1×8@95

WEAK!!!

Assistance
Seated Cable Rows
2×10@190
2×6@240

DB Front Delt Raise
2×10@40

DB Upright Rows
2×10@40

Standing Tri Cable Pushdowns
4×10@70

B/W:200.1

Comments
Blah Monday. I got 3/4 of the dinning room ceiling mudded and done. Got the stairway walls textured and painted. Sanded down and painted the railings. This week will be really busy at work as I have a contract gig going on all week.

Very sad to see this but very motivating all the same….

I have to add a warning that you may cry by the end…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-YuI1bYmdI

Note to self. Next week is last week before deload and then after deload week max attempts on the main three.

Next week:
Monday: Work on that ARCH!! And Supplement with more Standing OHP
Tuesday: WATCH THIS!!! GET MOTIVATED!! http://ironscene.com/view_video.php?viewkey=25d68c82d9d23713d458 Then go do some ME High Box Squats and break through 500!!!
Thursday: Hit those damn JM Presses and try for 25reps on the DB Rows
Friday: Zerchers Zerchers Zerchers…  I really don’t like that guy.

Week 9/ Day 4

Time to complete workout:
40m

LHS SQ/DL
Full Squat
1xseveral@135
1×12@225
1×8@315
1×6@365

ATG
1×6@225 (KILLED MY KNEE HALF WAY THROUGH!)

My hips were just super tight and sore today and figured I wouldn’t get very good explosiveness out of my box squats so decided to just do some RE work. Then I wanted to try one set of ATG narrow stance, shoulder width, squats and see how my right knee would hold up and it didn’t. I just can’t do them even with light weight with out getting pain in my right knee from an old injury. I’ll be icing it all day now.

Supplemental
Zercher Squats
2×3@225
1×2@275 PR!

I think I could have easily gotten three on that last set of 275 but in my second rep I felt my right knee hurting and stopped it after that.

PISSED OFF Mid-shin Rack Pull DL
1×1@225, 275, 315, 365, 385, 405 PR!! (Strarted to get really lightheaded and by the end I was seeing stars.)

Assistance
1 Arm DB DL to Side Bend
4×8@110 PR!! (More stars after the last set)

Hanging Leg raises
2×20 More Reps PR!!

Ghetto GHR
2×20 Rep PR!!

B/W:199.6

Comments
Yesterday was very much an emotional roller coaster ride from morning to night. I found out later in the day that nights local baseball team had a home game and most of all the proceeds would go to the Oncology Associates then straight into the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life campaign. So, went to the game and to help support the cause I ate 3 brats, 3 hamburgers, and 3 hot dogs. They had a big purple ribbon painted in the center field and before the game they had a bunch of survivors there come out onto the field and stand on the ribbon during the national anthem. Yes, I was an emotional baby yesterday and more tears came to my eyes. Yesterday really put a fire in me and I just wanted to Lift Heavy Sh*t. I started on a PR roll and decided to do more of everything then I have done before. I wont really record anything but the Z-squats and Rack pulls for PRs.

I guess it’s been verified that Jesse Marunde has passed away. He quickly became one of my favorites in the WSM competitions. Always seemed like he had a ton of fun and always willing to give it everything he had.  Everytime I go back to the thread I found this on and think about it I get tears in my eyes. My heart goes out to his family and everyone that personally new him.

http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=6844712

http://www.sequimgazette.com/Article/articleDetail.exm/Index/article/2007-07-26_SEQUIM_WEIGHT_LIFTER_DIES/ 

Sequim strongman collapses, dies
July 26th, 2007 - 8:41am

(Sequim) — A Sequim man considered one of the strongest men in the world has died. Twenty-seven-year-old Jesse Marunde died last night after collapsing while doing exercises at his home in Sequim. Friends of the family confirm he died last night after stopping his workout when he felt dizzy. Marunde and his wife Callie had just celebrated the birth of a baby about six weeks ago. Marunde also has a nine-year-old son from a previous marriage. Marunde finished second in the 2005 "World’s Strongest Man" competition. He continued competing in similar competitions and ran a gym with his wife in Sequim.

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Not sure what’s going on with the this post so I’ll do it again….  

I guess it’s been verified that Jesse Marunde has passed away. He quickly became one of my favorites in the WSM competitions. Always seemed like he had a ton of fun and always willing to give it everything he had.  Everytime I go back to the thread I found this on and think about it I get tears in my eyes. My heart goes out to his family and everyone that personally new him.

http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=6844712

http://www.sequimgazette.com/Article/articleDetail.exm/Index/article/2007-07-26_SEQUIM_WEIGHT_LIFTER_DIES/ 

Sequim strongman collapses, dies
July 26th, 2007 - 8:41am

(Sequim) — A Sequim man considered one of the strongest men in the world has died. Twenty-seven-year-old Jesse Marunde died last night after collapsing while doing exercises at his home in Sequim. Friends of the family confirm he died last night after stopping his workout when he felt dizzy. Marunde and his wife Callie had just celebrated the birth of a baby about six weeks ago. Marunde also has a nine-year-old son from a previous marriage. Marunde finished second in the 2005 "World’s Strongest Man" competition. He continued competing in similar competitions and ran a gym with his wife in Sequim.

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Week 9/ Day 3

Time to complete workout:
40m

ME Bench
Low Pin Press
1×3@bar, 75, 95, 115, 135, 165, 185, 205, 225, 245, 255
1×1@275, 280 PR!!!
1xmiss@295

1×1@275 http://ironscene.com/view_video.php?viewke…amp;category=mr

I felt pretty weak today and 275 barely got up and was my previous Pr so I didn’t think to record 280 which I thought I’d miss. I guessed wrong. Kick @SS!! I’m still having problems getting my upper back to arch. It must because I’ve got such a huge and strong upper back. HA! I tried stretching it before hand. I think I need to try and get my feet back more and pivot my hips up more while trying to keep my feet flat and butt down.

Assistance
JM Press
1×15@bar
1×5@95
3×10@75

I am so weak at these. I really need to bring these up.

Hanging Leg Raises
4×15

Kroc Rows (Saving these for the end because I know I wont be able to do anything else after)
3×8@85
1×3@120 (Just a few to feel it out and it felt good.)
1×20@100 PR!!

http://ironscene.com/view_video.php?viewke…amp;category=mr

I think I’m going to start tracking PRs on these too. They are so freaking hard and exhausting. Took about an hour to recuperate. I about puked up my PWO shake. Something about bending over just makes me want to puke. I spit up a little before even starting on each arm and had to swallow it back down as soon as I bent over.

B/W:198.9 OUCH!!!

Comments
I definitely didn’t eat enough at all yesterday. I got so busy and backed up at work. I was going to eat my oatmeal with some protein powder in it yesterday morning but didn’t get a chance too so I missed breakfast and mid-morning meal. Went and got two triple stackers at BK for lunch though so that helped. Then missed my afternoon meals and didn’t eat again till dinner at around 7pm. Then I was so exhausted I fell asleep at like 8:30p and didn’t get in my before bed shake. I was super hungry getting up this morning but really didn’t feel tired because I got enough sleep which was good. After the trying to get a good arch on the bench and the bent over rows my back is all kinds of stiff and cramped up. It took at least an hour after those rows to recuperate too.

On a very sad and disturbing note, and I really hope that this is really not true, I heard that Jesse Marunde has passed away at only 28 years old. Again, I really hope it is not true…

Week 9/ Day 2Time to complete workout:
48m

Time to complete workout: 48mME SQ/DL
DL with 25lbs plates (alternate between sumo and conv)

Many warm up and stretches with bar.

sumo- 1×1@95, 115, 145, 165, 195, 215, 245, 265, 295, 315, 345, 365, 395, 410 PR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
conv- 1×1@95, 115, 145, 165, 195, 215, 245, 265, 295, 315, 345

395 pull - http://ironscene.com/view_video.php?viewke…=&category=

410 pull - So PISSED!! I thought I hit the record button but it only took a picture. I got back and hit the record button to stop it but then it started to record. I was like with the hell!! No way was I going to be able to do that again.

Assistance
Pull through
4×10@197.5

GHR
4×15

Standing Ab Pulldowns
1×8@75
1×3@75
3×15@70

B/W:200.1

Comments
Mowed the grass last night to loosen up the old joints. It turned out to be more of a workout then I’d planned. I didn’t think the grass would be as damp as it was and had to remove some of the weights off the mower half way through. I was getting wiped out. Very scary going into today. I didn’t know how my right trap/shoulder/neck would take today. It seemed okay after last Friday when I did the DL. Still stiff and sore in the morning. I did go back and take off the 405 as a PR because I hitched it pretty good and kept myself at a 395 PR which I still achieved the last ME session. I was still scared I wouldn’t be able to hit 395 today. Now I don’t keep track of how much I’m doing during my ME sessions because I always start at bar and add on the same amount of weights and get into a rhythm of adding weights and doing my set one after the other with little to no break in between. I wasn’t sure where I was and it felt like I was about to hit up into my upper ranges but then I count the weight and it’s only 245lbs. Then I was really worried but that all just turned in to anger and felt like I was really selling myself short. So I got back on my rhythm and kept driving the weight up. Now I really feel myself straining and I’m still only at 345. DAMN IT!!! Pissed me off. I dropped the conventional pulls and blasted through with the sumo and hit 365. I slapped on the belt and drove up 395. SCREW IT!!! I wasn’t going to mess with 405 as I knew I could do if I wanted to so I did it 410!!!! No hitch!! Really slowed down by knee height and did everything I could to keep pulling but I kept telling myself I can’t hitch the damn thing. Finally close to hitting a full set of 10 with 75lbs on the Ab Pulldowns.

Week 9/ Day 1

Time to complete workout:
40m
DE Bench
Bench 60%
8×3@165

Worked on arching up onto my shoulders more and getting into the arch. Made sure to squeeze my glutes tight.

http://ironscene.com/view_video.php?viewke…556e6ab0b89ca05

Supplemental
Bench
3×3@225

These felt really freaking heavy today. I hope it’s because of everything I did over the weekend.

Standing OHP w/BB
1xseveral@bar
1xmanymore@65
1×6@85
1×5@95
1×3@135

Wow, first time doing those. Those suck more than any other kind of OHP than I’ve done before and I hated those too.

Assistance
DB Rear delt raises
4×10@35

Pull ups
4×6

Seated 1 Arm DB Over head Tri Ext.
3×8@40

B/W:201

Comments
Putting dry wall up on the ceiling by yourself just plain sucks. I finally got the entire ceiling done in the dinning room. Lots of over head pressing and static holds there. Got a lot of weeds pulled this weekend too, needing to do that for a while. I’m hoping that’s why my bench felt really heavy today.