DE Squat/Deadlift: Tough day for some reason. I increased my banded box squats to 255 for (8 x 2) speed squats. I think the reason why it was SO fucking tough to keep my speed fast is because I put the bands around a 60 lb dumbbell PLUS the bottom of the rack...Same as DE Bench. I think I really fucked this up...Reason being because usually (if I remember correctly), I only choke the bands around the bottom of the rack and NOT around an extra DB. So the bands had a much much heavier amount of resistance! So in the future I'm going to keep the 255, but not include the extra DB and just focus on increasing speed faster with each passing week. I think next week I'm gonna work up to a new 1 RM for these.
SLDL's this week instead of DE Banded Deads. Did 3 sets standing on some plates w/ 275 lbs RAW. Easy weight still, so I slowed down the reps a little to really get the work in.
Same DE supplementals as previous. I went with a 90 lb DB for DB swings instead of 100's because my back was too pumped from SLDL's. Next week when I go back to speed deadlifts, I'll gun for 100 lb DB's for these.
Calvers I did 1 set DC style with 320 lbs. 12 reps with a good 15 second stretch between each rep, and a good 5 second negative per rep. Fucking smoked my calves.
Banded abs pulldowns I did my first two sets with 15 reps vs. the usual 10. Abs still hurt from doing these! It's been 2 days already.
