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Wednesday 17/08/16 Night session Bench (kg) W-U: 60/5; 70/3; 80/3 100/3,3 102.5/3 90/7+4 No belt; wrist wraps Parallel-grip Chins 10 - shoulder-width grip 7 - wide grip Hip mobility exercises Notes Pushed for time. Haven't benched for two weeks and only managed a single floor press session in...

Tuesday 16/08/16 Afternoon session LBBS (kg) W-U: 60/10,10; 80/5; 110/5 130/5 - belted from here on 135/5 140/5,3,5 O-shoes Notes Back to 140 for sets of 5. It's been a while. Not my best form though. Focussing on rock solid upper back at the start of each rep.

Legs early am sucks. You have my sympathy, TD.

Sunday 14/08/16 Evening Session Deficit Sumo DL (kg) W-U: 60/5, 80/5, 100/5, 120/5 130/5 - belted from here on 135/5 140/5 150/5 1" deficit plus O-shoes; hook-grip Conventional DL 150/5 @RPE 7 O-shoes; hook-grip Notes Set up for sumo with shins at rings in knurling. Focused on lat activation...

Friday 12/08/16 Evening session Deficit Sumo DL (kg) W-U: 60/5, 80/10, 100/5, 110/5 120/1,1,5,5,5 130/5 Off 1" board plus O-shoes; hook-grip Notes You have to walk before you can run and, in my case, you have to crawl before you can walk. Left SC-joint healing up so will be sticking with...

Your dipping strength is impressive, Mick. I know you train at home so am wondering what set up you use for dips? I actually prefer weighted dips to benching but I don't currently have any way I can do them (except bw ones in a corner of the kitchen worktop). I need to focus on benching for a...

Friday 12/08/16 Morning session LBBS (kg) W-U: 60/10,10, 80/5, 100/5 120/5,5,5,5,5,10 Belted for sets @120 Last rep paused for sets of 5 @120 Notes Squatting in the morning sucks. 120 felt like 135. Left SC joint still sore. I can't put the bar in the racked position for front squats...

Thanks. Will give that a go.

@Jester: I haven't read much about sumo other than on Izzy's PLTW site. Would it make sense to work at deficit sumo deads to help with breaking the bar off the floor?

Wednesday 10/08/16 Left shoulder update: Left SC joint area very sore today. Did as many things as I could to get blood flowing around it. I'm thinking that I may have had some adhesions following my clavicle fracture and subsequent healing that got wrenched a bit. My left hand is the one I...

@Totentanz: thanks for the info. That is definitely something I will be keeping in mind. Cheers. I have to accept that as I'm getting older, I'm more likely to get little injuries, especially if I'm not careful. If I'm going to get an injury, it may as well be at the meet rather than...

Tuesday 9/8/16 Morning session Sumo DL (kg) 60/5, 90/3, 110/3, 130/1,1 150/1 - belted from here on 170/0,0 150/10 Flat shoes; mixed grip Floor Press (kg) 60/15, 80/5 100/8,5,6,5 Pendlay Row (kg) 100/5,7,5,4 - straps from second set Notes On Sumo DL, failed 11th rep as allowed back to round...

I'm fairly sure I could do more than 10 X 150 for conventional DL. But it would hammer my lower back much more. Using sumo, if hardly bothers my lower back at all. Form/technique issue: I do not doubt it (see next post).

Some things here that Bryan et al were saying about 1000 years ago but good advice still.

Sunday 7/08/16 Evening Sumo-DL (kg) W-U: 60/5, 90/3, 110/1,1 130/1 140/1 150/1 155/1 - belted from here on 160/1 165/1 170/0,0 Some hook grip, some reverse grip Switched to conventional DL 170/1 Very noticeably more lower-back stress doing this lift compared with sumo. Back to Sumo-DL...

Saturday 6/08/16 AM. Sumo-DL 60/5, 80/5, 110/5 130/5 140/5 150/5 PM. LBBS 60/10, 80/3, 100/3 130/5,5,5 - belted Last rep paused for final set. Press 60/5 62.5/5,5 Notes Short sumo-DL session in the morning as a bit of an experiment. For me, much easier on lower-back than conventional, but...

Which is probably why my lower back is struggling to keep up. I take a day off if I think it's needed, which I did on Friday this week. I also try to eat more on a day off. Always seems to help with the next day's training.

Current program is not ideal. I have cut out O-lifts as I can't do them and prep for the meet. I'm trying to stick as close to this as I can but it's not always possible. I can only bench and chin on Mondays and Tuesdays hence my back-to-back sessions. Floor press (when I have no access to rack...

My mate has a S/S bastard power bar which he's very pleased with. He's using it for powerlifting training. He got it for £260 which is currently over £100 cheaper than the Texas power bar S/S are selling. Seems like a very good deal of you are in the UK.

Thursday 04/08/16 Chest DOMS after yesterday bad but not hellish. DL (kg) W-U: 60/5, 90/5, 110/5, 130/5 150/3 - belted from here on 160/1,1,1,1,1 170/0 !! All in flat shoes and reverse grip Train wreck. Lower back fatigue jumped up and bit me. It hasn't recovered from last Sunday's DL...