tomatoes

squat: 275x5 h
clean: 140x4 m - and this was supposed to be a 145 (heavy day being 155). but whatevs. i totes got this. eventually
bench (light day is dips MRx2): 3,3. doesn't look like much but it was more than i expected. really focused on getting the shoulders below the elbows (even took a video to help with the potential cognitive dissonance)

The squats were easier than I expected. I spent the whole morning obsessing about whether to go for 270 or 275. The choice was right. It was hard but not hard like your hair being on fire or being wracked with doubt in the hole as you wonder whether this will be the one where the discs in your spine behave like the tomatoes on your burger (sheering force!).

Starr's Big 3

bench, clean, squat. 5 sets of 5 with the weight increasing every set.

there is a heavy, medium, and light day every week. i'm doing this for two reasons:
- i seem to have trouble recovering because i'm either over 40 or because i don't drink a gallon of milk a day
- the bench and clean are my two worst lifts. squat is my best. the sign of a thinker is one who can sit with two contradictory thoughts in their head and see both of them as true. that's what i'm telling myself anyway.

bench (H): 115x5, 125, 135, 145, 155x7
squat (M): 135x5, 165, 195, 225, 250
clean (L): 115x5, 115, 115, 125, 135. actually struggled at the end with the cleans. which is weird. though i'm doing 5 instead of 3 reps. and i did a lot on saturday. but it's still supposed to be light. we shall see if i have to lower my medium and heavy goals. the medium final set weight is the heavy day's 4th set. light day is the heavy day's 3rd set.

rollouts. 3x3.
jump rope. 90sx3 with 3.5 min rest.