8/24/20 Monday August 24, 2020 (Texas method volume - BB Squat, OHP, DL)

 6:45am - belly breathing, Primal Move practice, Original Strength resets  - 45 minutes

7:30am - Kettlebell warm up

1/2K halos - 12kg, 4X each side / each leg (total 16X)
Arm bar + Crooked Arm bar 20kg with 3 presses and rotations, 1/1

24kg TGU x 1/1
48kg DL x 5
24kg 2H SW x 10 (hike swing park)

7:45am- Training session -  TM volume - BB Squat, OHP, DL

BB Squat:
45 bar x 5
135 x 5

225 x 3
275 x 2
315 x 1

345 x 1
365 x 1

work sets
380 x 5 x 5 sets (90% of planned Intensity day of 425)

BB OHP:
warm up
45 bar x 5
95 x 5
135 x 3

work sets
150 x 5 x 5 sets (I picked a weight here I was confident that I could get 5 x 5 - I barely fucking got it)

BB DL (all hooked, belt at 315):

warm up
45 bar x 5
135 x 5 x 2 sets
225 x 3
315 x 1

work set

325 x 5 x 2 sets (80% of planned intensity day of 410)

rolling
hanging from the bar

Indian clubs 2 minutes

Band wrist extensions, 10 x 2 sets per hand
6lb sledgehammer hammer rotations, 10/10
6lb sledgehammer finger walks, 1/1, x 2

9:15am - Complete

Notes - So after some back and forth, quite a bit of reading and listening to Paul Horn's video on the Texas Method on the SS Forum over the weekend, I just decided - It's Time.  NLP, essentially started in January with vigor on all 4 of the main lifts, has run its course now for squats and deads. Really the only thing hanging on was squats and frankly that is because I haven't been getting deep enough anyway.  So dropping the intensity and getting in more volume on TM with squats, I will renew my focus on getting deeper.  And I did that today, and am pleased with this change.  I mean 5 x 5 squats at 380 was still HARD no doubt. These Mondays are going to test me and it will Demand that I get recovered over each weekend.  With my schedule though, I think this could really work for me.  For OHP I just picked a weight that I knew I could get 5 x 5 on, and at 150, that's pretty low, I know.  I think there is somewhat of a big difference between the 5 x 5 weight and what I could do for singles (195), so I am not quite sure what I should do for Intensity day for the press.  I think the approach is supposed to be that this was 90% of Friday's weight, which would give me just one set of 165 which I know I could absolutely do.  I am going to think about this some more.  The DLs were pretty strong reps, I haven't done multiple work sets for DLs except for maybe once, so I wanted to be a little cautious out of the gate here and did 2 sets of 5.  I could have done 3 sets of 5 without any real issue, and next week, if things are going ok, I likely will bump up to that. This weight is targeted at 90% of the planned weight for Friday, which is 410 for one set of 5.  I have done that before, but it is close to my PR which is a triple at 415.  I think this is a good place to start the DL and we'll see where this goes.