Was in the middle of my 4th set of front squats and heard and felt a large pop in my hamstring. It's a nice injury. Decided to not continue on with the training.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Tuesday part 2: Front squats and popping the hamstring
Was in the middle of my 4th set of front squats and heard and felt a large pop in my hamstring. It's a nice injury. Decided to not continue on with the training.
Tuesday December 29th part 1: BTN Push Press/ Handstand Push ups
Was having a crappy night with the push presses so I took the last set to nail some handstand push ups. Here are the HSPU.
Monday, December 29, 2014
Friday part 3: timed squats
Set the clock for 3 1/2 minutes and cranked out as many squats with 135 on the bar as I could. Here's the wrap up.
Friday part 2: pull ups
10 sets of 10 reps of pull ups alternated with 10 sets of 12 reps for weighted dips. Here's the final set of pull ups.
Friday December 26th part 1: Dips
The 10th of 10 sets of 12 dips with bodyweight plus 70 pounds, alternated with 10 sets of 10 reps for pull ups.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone. No matter what you celebrate I hope that it's filled with love, peace, happiness and fun. Happy Holidays!
Monday Part 3: Deadlifts
Man, deadlifts were not my thing tonight. Nailed 4 sets of doubles with 450, then jumped up to 460 and completely missed. Oh well, still strong and awesome!
Monday December 22nd part 1: BTN Push Press and Scott Press
You have to love it when you hit something on week 3 that you didn't think you'd hit until week 6. Nailed 6 sets of doubles in the Behind The Neck Push Press with 250 pounds and finished with two 70 pound kettlebells for Scott Presses. Here's set 6 of 6:
Monday, December 22, 2014
Friday December 19th Wrap up
Here's the wrap up of Friday night's training, aka: "Barbarian Cardio."
Friday, December 19, 2014
Thursday part 3: Timed Squats
Put 135 pounds on the bar and did as many non-stop squats as possible in three minutes. Here's the wrap up.
Thursday December 18th part 1: Dips
Did alternating sets of dips and pull ups. 10 sets of 25 reps for dips and 10 sets of 10 reps for pull ups.
Here's the 10th set of dips.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Supplements
I get a lot of questions about what supplements I use. Here's the current stack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx2_QuOkH1I#t=15
Hope you like it!
Monday part 3: deadlifts
Finished up Monday night with 5 sets of doubles for deadlifts nailing 450 pounds pretty well.
Monday December 15th part 1: BTN Push Press and Scott Presses
After doing 100 dips, here's the 6th sets of Behind the Neck Push Presses. I was going for doubles with 235 pounds and finished up with a set of Scott presses with a pair of 53 pounds kettlebells.
Friday part 5: Farmer's Walks
After hitting 100 dips, 10 minutes of plate push sprints and medicine ball slams, 5 minutes of backwards weighted drag sprints and 5 minutes of seated row sprints it was time to finish it all up with 3 sets of 60 seconds on and 60 seconds off for farmer's walks. Kept these at two 88 pounds kettlebells for tonight.
Friday part 4: seated row drag sprints.
After hitting the plate push sprints, medicine ball slams, and backwards weighted drags, it was time to hit 5 rounds of 30 seconds on and30 seconds off of seated row sprints using 246 pounds.
Friday part 3: Backwards weighted drap sprints
After the plate pushes and medicine ball slams, hi 5 rounds of 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off for backwards weighted drag sprints using 316 pounds.
Friday part 2: Medicine Ball Slams
And, building off of the last video, here's the first set from the medicine ball slams.
Friday December 12th part 1: Plate Push Sprints
Alternated between plate push sprints and Medicine ball slam sprints. Hit 10 minutes of plate pushes for 20 seconds on and 40 seconds off followed by Med. ball slams for 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off. Here's the first set of the plate pushes.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Thursday part 3: timed squats
Loaded the bar up with only 135 pounds and hit as many squats as I could in 3 minutes without stopping. Awesome stuff.
Thursday part 2: pull ups
Super set time: 10 sets of 20 reps for dips and 10 sets of 10 reps for pull ups.
Here's the final set of pull ups
Thursday December 11th part 1: Dip challenge and dips in the workout
Decided to hit the dip challenge during my training tonight.
Alternated between sets of pull ups and dips hitting 10 sets of 20 reps in the dips and 10 sets of 10 reps in the pull ups.
Felt awesome. Here's the final set of dips.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Wednesday part 4: Clean Grip High Pulls
Finished out the night with Clean Grip High Pulls. Hit 5 sets of 3 with 300 pounds.
Here's the final set.
Wednesday part 3: Snatch Grip High Pulls
Nailed 5 sets of 3 in these with 225 pounds. Should have gone up in weight.
Here's the final set.
Wednesday pat 2: Shrugs
Nailed 6 sets of 4 tonight with 505 pounds. Felt strong. Hit them all in Power style.
Here's the 6th of 6 sets.
Wednesday December 10th part 1: Neck
Along with my dips this morning I also worked my neck for 5 sets of 12 reps in each direction: Forward, Backward, Titling Left, Tilting Right, Looking Left and Looking Right. Felt awesome.
Wednesday Dip Challenge Day 3
Today was my "easy" day for dips. Hit assisted dips which aren't quite as intense. Nailed my 100 in 3 sets. They went: 35 reps, 35 reps and 30 reps. Felt good.
Tuesday part 2: Abdominal Roll-outs
Hadn't used these in my own training for a little while. Time to bring them back. Nice to know I've still go 'em.
Here's the 3rd of 3 sets.
Tuesday December 9th part 1: The Bear
The bear is one of my favorite conditioning routines, but I hadn't had it in my personal cycles for about two years. Though it was time to put it back in. Felt awesome.
Here's the 4th of 5 sets.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Tuesday Dip Challenge Day 2:
Nailed my 100 dips in 4 sets (sets of 25 reps) yesterday. Thought I'd add 35 pounds to my bodyweight and hit my 100 reps in 5 sets (sets of 20) today. Feeling strong. Here's set number 1:
Monday Part 3: Deadlifts
Always awesome to deadlift heavy.
Here's the 5th and final set of doubles with 435 pounds.
Monday part 2: Front Squats
Hit 5 sets of triples with 315, then felt strong on the last set and hit 5. An awesome 6 sets.
Monday December 8th part 1: Behind the neck Push Press
One of my favorite moves, but it's been about two years since it was last in a cycle. Crushed it tonight.
Here's the 6th of 6 sets of doubles using 225 pounds.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Monday Dip Challenge
Decided that I hadn't done a monthly challenge in a while so I decided to do one this month. As of today I'll be hitting at least 100 dips every day. They can be normal dips, ring dips, weighted dips, reverse grip dips or what ever. But, there has to be at least 100 of them each day. Here's the 1st set for today.
Friday, December 5, 2014
New Stuff
Alright everyone, check out the latest blog at www.brettsbeast.blogspot.com
This one's for the serious strength and fitness minded!
This one's for the serious strength and fitness minded!
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Wednesday December 3rd: wrap up
Today I was feeling a little beat up so I centered everything around my daily joint mobility and flexibility work and added in some Eischen's Yoga in the evening. Great back off week so far.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Monday December 1st: Wrap up
The first day of the back off week.
The past 13 weeks have been hard, intense and awesome. The results have been phenomenal. But, the body has a little damage, so it's time to focus on recovery for the next week.
Tonight was a run through of Eischen's Yoga to help heal.
It was awesome!
Monday, December 1, 2014
Friday November 28th part 1: military press
The final training day of this cycle. It really went fast and was awesome
Nailed my 10 sets of 10 for strict military press! Melissa schooled my though, she got her 100 reps in only 9 sets.
Tuesday part 3: Power Cleans
Wrist and forearm were feeling a little fucked still so I kept the weight lower and concentrated on form and speed. Felt good though.
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