September 11 – 17, 2023 Mark Brown September 18, 2023 MondayScheduled rest day – recovery TuesdayScheduled rest day – recovery WednesdayBench press, cambered bar – 175 x 6, 225 x 6, 245 x 6, 265 x 3, x 3; 275 x 2, x 2Isometric flat holds, cambered bar – 265 x 1:30, 275 x 1:30, …
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A Brush With Injury
So I trained something a bit too hard Mark Brown May 3, 2023 I have recently been forced to deal with a legitimate injury that will require recovery efforts that I haven’t had to deal with in awhile. I have learned some pretty important lessons from it during that time. The primary cause of it …
Winter Training Note – New Lift Sequencing
More learning from the gym this Winter Mark Brown February 21, 2023 Over the past year I have been able to identify specific sequences of lifts that fit together very well for power, strength and muscular development. They are a combination of the main – supplemental – accessory lift structure I use as the core …
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2022 Year In Review Part 4
Bench Press Development Mark Brown December 29, 2022 Squat might be the lift that improved the most in 2022, but bench press is the one that got the most stable in terms of raw, repeatable strength. I thought going into this year that getting to 315 pounds with the lifting structure I finished 2021 with …
2022 Year In Review Part 3
Deadlift and Pulling Development Mark Brown December 28, 2022 Entering 2022, I would have said the deadlift was my best lift. It was my most consistent lift. It was the lift I was doing for more weight week to week than anything else. Development slowed in 2022 for it when I subconsciously started to push …
2022 Year In Review Part 2
Squat Development Mark Brown December 27, 2022 Going into 2022, the squat was the weakest of my main lifts. I restarted squatting in summer of 2020 after a year and half break from it. I have been doing it much more consistently since the summer of 2021. During a 12 week program that was more …
2022 Year in Review
Part 1: General Overview Mark Brown December 25, 2022 This year has been a period of progress in my strength training. It also saw multiple shifts in my thought process towards lifting and everything that goes into it. Certain areas and lifts saw more improvement than others did. I will detail them in subsequent entries. …
Daily Training Note November 15, 2022
Mark Brown November 15, 2022 Tonight’s squat and deadlift lifting session was both long and hard. It took almost 3 hours to get done because of the rest breaks during the squat. I hit a heaviest set, 3 of them to be exact, of 425 pounds for 2 reps. I worked up to that through …
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