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Monthly Archives: January 2010

CGHPS Are Hard, Reading to Children is Easy

Wednesday morning my team at work volunteered at two Youth-in-Need child-care facilities. These two facilities provide highly-subsidized daycare and early-childhood education for children whose parent(s) meet some income requirement. The facility where I was, was organized into three classrooms: birth to 23 months, 2 years old, and 3 to 5 year olds.
I started out the [...]

Deadlift

I realized recently I need to work the bottom of my deadlift a little more. All my 5-3-1 deadlifts will be off a ~4″ block.

Warm Up
Chin Ups
Power Cleans + Thrusters @ 95#
Dips @ BW
Deadlift from ~4″ block
5x @ 205#
5x @ 260#
5x @ 305#
8x @ 345#
4x (ea. station @ 1:00 intervals)
5x Chin Ups
10x Thruster @ 95#
15x [...]

Squats and Bench Press

Wednesday

Warm Up @ 75#
5x Romanian Deadlift
5x Power Clean+Thruster
5x (ea. leg) Reverse Lunge
Squat
5x Squat @ 160#
5x Squat @ 210#
5x Squat @ 240#
7x Squat @ 270#
5x @ 115#
5x Romanian Deadlift
5x Power Clean+Thruster
5x (ea. leg) Reverse Lunge

Friday

Warm Up @ 75#
5x Sumo Deadlift
5x Sumo Deadlift High Pull
5x Clean
5x Press
5x (ea. leg) Jump Lunges (alternate legs ea. jump)
Close-Grip Bench Press [...]

Happy New Year

The last two weeks have been very busy around here. I left you all on the 17th - one day before our tenth wedding anniversary. In that time we’ve had family come into town from Texas, Georgia and Chicago, we’ve spent significant time with my parents, my paternal grandmother, my maternal grandparents, 4 sets of [...]