re: H&F May Program Party: Pool Season II

Squats got a little real today. I havnt looked at next Thursday yet but it should be a good one.

W2D2 done. Deadlifts got heavy today. I figured out why this program seems tougher: 3 of the 4 days involve a lot of back work lol. I have a love-hate thing going with snatch grip deads also.

Pump Friday was kind of lame today.

I'm doing a superset arm workout tomorrow morning before heading to BR for some 7u baseball.

I added another step on bench. Backarms we’re swole af.

Knocked out w2d3 in about an hour. I did an amrap for the last set of 77% squats and managed 10x265, which is a PR for reps at that weight. I did db RDLs (sets of 10-12) rather than setting up the barbell out of the rack for that one exercise; that superset still felt really good. The wall sits were kinda lame; not sure who the target audience was for that shite.

Ate half a shrimp ring and going for a long walk: will sear an ahi tuna steak for supper later.

I think I’m going to either add 5% to every bench set tomorrow or else just do 5x10 at a decent weight.

I did W2D3 this morning too. Finished just under an hour, which was the shortest for PS2 so far.

I’m going to try and knock out W2D4 tomorrow morning before a busy Mother’s day

The bench was light today, but I stuck to the plan. I didn’t want any soreness for Big Bench Monday.

I did miss the cardio. Wife was yelling at me to get ready for church. I’m going to make those up this week. I like those Z curls

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My biggest critique is that I think shrugs were wayyy overused. Almost like the guy couldn't figure out one more exercise to finish a workout, so frick it lets add some more shrugs.

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Definitely don't do Jacked Up Joker then. They are the cardio portion EVERY day. Starts W1D1 at 4x25 and ends W4D5 with 4x50.

I felt like PS 2 was a little heavy on back work, light on arms and shoulders compared to PS 1, but I liked the volume and higher %s of the big lifts. I really liked Pool Season 1 tho (except for the last day I’d sub w1d4 for it when I run PS1 again).

I was expecting him to hit shoulders and traps hard in these programs which was fine by me. I really liked the supersets with high rep back/lat work with band pull aparts this month.

I’m missing face-pulls, rfess, incline db press, close grip bench, hammer curls and farmer walks though; not sure what we are running June but I hope it has some of those things :)

i am way behind, didnt get but 2 days last week and had to hit up chiro today and will again friday. upper back and neck really compressed and hurting some. happened from the say i slept one night and tons of seat time in the car from baseball season.