Bench Max

315 Lbs

This morning was max bench day and I PR’d. I knew I could do it but it took sometime for me to be able to actually think that. As a Linebacker at the D1 level benching 315 isn’t the biggest feat in the world, but for me it is. I couldn’t bench 200 lbs when I came in at 18 and now I benching over 300 lbs. I just am obsessed with progress and after I was robbed of an off-season last year with covid. I am happy to see my progress unfold. My chest is all types of sore. Benching is really hard for me as I have a crazy long set of arms. I’m glad I hit that’s number, but tomorrow I’m going after the big one. 500lbs squat club😈.

Hardest day of workouts this year by Far.

I don’t know why my coaches decided on almost committing genocide, but the whole team almost died. I knew I had to tell someone about how hard this work out was. I get the short end of the stick everyday as I have to lift in the first group no matter what every day. As I have 9 am class. Usually they split up which group lifts first so the other group can rest eat breakfast and lift later. So that itself sucks already then I have to jump right into class after rushing through my lift so I am not too terrible late. In the back of my mind I was like I am not going to lift right now I am too dead I am just going to have to skip class as I was too tired to even move. We run as a team starting at 5:45 am then half the team lifts then the other half goes to breakfast. This running session was so different than the other ones. We had combo agility drills, which are the hardest on the lungs and on the joints. It is sprinting full speed changing direction in a 45, 90, 180, and sometimes 360 degree. After we did that we had sprints which made multiple people throw up. Had we ran 2 more of those I would have been joining them. After we finished the drills and sprints we had a finisher which was harder than the drills before. After dominating the finisher, which was excruciating, I had to go in and lift immediately. The worst part about it was the building didn’t have A/C and I cramped up. Hardest workout of the year. Easily.

Max Week

I never really go out with my teammates but this weekend I did even ahead of max week. Typically my Sunday are homework and stretching days, but I had to recover from going out. Yesterday I worked out before I when out so that makes me feel even worse than I normally would. After a light pool workout though and sitting in the sun for an hour it makes me feel a lot better. It’s nothing really to do to but get ready for max week by resting and watching tv.