Chili's Spicey Spicey Journal.

Im with you on working out in the colder seasons, its too hot.
I like Sumo-DL's, I can't move as much weight on them and they really hit the inner and outer parts of the thighs hard. I used to have wobbly knees while doing heavy deadlifting, which is really bad but doing sumo-deadlifts seems to have fixed that and because I deadlift so often the lesser weight has given my forearms and back muscles a bit less of a hard time. I think when I hit conventional deadlifts again Im going to make some easy PR's all from the sumo-deadlifting I did. At first they feel strange and way different from deadlifts, but now I actually find it hard to do bad form on them and the movement feels quite comfortable, at first though you'l get a big stretch in your inner thighs but you get used to it.

Ok, Now Im logging my 2nd Workout of the day.
I did 4 Rounds of a Dumbbell Complex which looks like this.

Dumbbell Jump Squats
Dumbbell One Handed Jerk
Dumbbell Swings
Dumbbell Lunges
x4 Rounds

I used 10KG Dumbbells, which was more than enough given the intensity of it. I tried to do 10 Reps for each exercise(10 Reps on each leg for lunges) but by the time I got to lunges on the later rounds I dropped some reps.

They should help bust through those deadlift plateau's like a knife through butter

Eugh I meant to type Dumbbell Snatch not jerk, it looks like this.

Dumbbell Snatch - Studiomiletto.com

Dumbell Squats are just like you said. like this;

Dumbbell squat jump

The workout probably would have been better without Dumbbell Swings, they look like this

Dumbbell Swing-Thrus: 100 lbs x 8 reps

Although this guy looks to be using sloppyish form(could'nt find a beter clip), see how his hips thrust forward when the Dumbbell is at the top? the hips should thrust forward when the dumbbell is passing them and the back should be in a fixed natural arch like in the deadlift.
They did'nt really get my heart-rate going, but was more of a little rest between the Jerk's and Lunges, which was probably needed because it was pretty killer.

1x5x77.5KG Sumo-Deadlift(PR)
1x5x67.5KG Sumo-deadlift
1x5x37.5KG M.Press (PR)
1x5x30KG M.Press

I have really killer DOMS today, can hardely walk from the complex yesterday, but surprisingly these PR's felt fairly easy for PR's. I bet I can make 80KG on Sumo's and 40KG on M.Press tommorrow 

Well yeah, I wanted to work on explosiveness to get my sprinting up to speed(No Pun Intended ) but my form on the main olympic lifts isn't that good, but these are easier to get the form right and are safer while still being close to the Olympic ones.

A bit over 6ft or so. Maybe 6ft1. I havent measured my self for a long time

Congrats on AGAIN a new PR.
By the way, have you taken a look at my message yet?

Im resting but I had to post this somewhere, because it is simply awesome and I hope one day I can do this too.

26th Birthday Lifting Challenge

In other news, Im starting my next cycle on monday doing deadlift starting at 75KG, and I will be attempting old fashoned side press starting at 10KG(never done these seriously before). Plus I will be doing a pull-up ladder, but Im confused about how much volume to do one these things, I think I might just go with 3xLadder.