I'm taking the next 12+ weeks off from strongman events and training primarily for hypertrophy with a slight strength emphasis. I'm in my "off-season" and looking to put on some size over the upcoming months and into next year. I'm working with teammate Mike Mastell on my programming.
Pic: Mason's face when picking him up from the babysitter, surprising him with his new dog.
I'm a little behind on getting my logs updated. Life's been a little hectic the past two weeks. I also ended up having to miss two training sessions in the last two weeks and this never happens. Luckily it was leg day #2 that was omitted, so nothing was really "missed". A little over a week ago we got little man a puppy. Mason has loved dogs since he could first talk and has been obsessed ever since. He loves them so much we thought he needed his own dog so we found an awesome lab/beagle,/basset-hound mix at a rescue shelter in Southern, IL. Mason was super excited. So house breaking and training that dog, along with just playing with it and getting it used to us and our neighborhood has been time consuming. It's 4 months old and a rescue dog so it took a while for him to get comfortable. Mason has also named him, "BoBo".
This week I put my car for sale on Sunday and sold it on Monday during my lunch break. So I took off Wednesday and went and bought a new truck. I decided on a black 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. With this week also not being off from my normal daily routine it threw things off a little bit. Regardless I still got my full body trained in 4 days both last week and this week. I'm feeling good as I come close to an end on this bodybuilding training. My body has no doubt changed as I'm bigger for sure. I've had to buy all new jeans and I've out grown a lot of shirts. I've also moved up a shirt size. So I can't complain.
My next plans are to compete in December at USS Hope for the Holidays and competed in the strongman push/pull with the deadlift and log clean & press. I'm shooting for a 700+ pound pull and 350+ pound log clean & press. I'll also still be focusing on some hypertrophy as I move forward.
Here's Week 10, Day 1 Leg Day:
9.22.15
A. Stability Ball Leg Curl
4 sets of 10
B. Front Squat (I was supposed to do multiple cluster sets, but read the programming wrong.)
135x5
185x3
225x3
275x3
315x3, rest 30s, then 7 more reps. (Speed started to slow)
C. Leg Press
6 plates x 10
7 plates x 10
8 plates x 10
8 plates x 10
8 plates x 10
D. Reverse DB Lunges
4 sets of 10
E. Snatch Grip RDLs
135x10
185x10
225x10
275x10
275x10