Realized I forgot to log Wednesday. A classic Wolf story if ever there was one. Had a fantastic workout Wednesday morning, feeling great, healed up, and ready to really rev it up into the home stretch...and then tweaked my back doing a silly tandem DL competition for fun at the gym Wednesday night. The day after finally signing up (and paying $165! to do so) for the meet I've been talking about for months. Why wait so long to sign up? Why, in case I got injured and couldn't do it. So of course that happens the day after I sign up. I swear my body has a deeply ironic sense of humor.
Anyway.
Deadlift - straps
455x3
495x3, 525x3 @6.5 - 3" belt
Notes: 525 moved really easy and fast, and even more importantly, my back felt solid and great throughout. I was stoked to pull 600 from the floor and 665 from 6" blocks on Saturday.
Leg Press
495x8, 545x8, 495x8
DB Standing Press
85x8, 95x8x2 - PR
Notes: Leg press felt fine on hammy and moved fast, but just easing back up into them instead of trying to immediately go back to 635x8 or whatever. 95x8 is a PR for standing DB press; I've done 100x8 seated but seated are obviously much easier. Not that I've ever pushed the limit on these, I never do them to max, but it's cool when you get a PR despite leaving lots of gas in the tank.
525x3 DL and 95x8 DB Press on IG
Cable Row (Medium Neutral Grip)
210x8, 225x8x2
Notes: Was able to do these bilaterally again with normal grip AND normal weight. Still kept em easy only doing sets of 8, but happy to be back to normal here.
DB Curls
50x9, 60x9x2
Assault Bike
25/50 x6 = 53 cals
An excellent workout overall. Then I was stupid and tweaked it later that night on the 1108 tandem pull. I previously wrote a longer piece on what happened but have deleted it because in the past it's just led people who have started following more recently, to ask questions I've answered many times before. In short, I tweaked it on an 1108 tandem DL, it presented as pretty bad at first but is improving at a much faster rate - so far - than any tweak that started off this bad ever has, so maybe it'll allow me to resume squat and DL training quicker than I at first anticipated. We shall see. And yes, I am familiar with the biopsychosocial pain model, thank you for asking.