[2014-01-05, Monday]
Olympic Squat, very light wraps, no belt
45 x 10 x 3
135 x 6
185 x 4
225 x 7 x 5
Took a little bit to warm up with that pain in my left hip.
Decided to give Intermittent Fasting a go. It's how I like to schedule my eating and fits with my 14-hour work days. Squatted while fasting this morning. A little scary at first, but I seemed to adapt quickly. Things got super easy on the third set. Coasted through set four. Truly the warmups were the only difficult part. Left hip and right knew were cranky and unstable and I was a little light-headed and slow. But I really found the groove under the work weight.
I started with a magnificent brunch feast yesterday. But I started drinking in the evening and managed to avoid getting any calories from things that weren't beer. Not ideal. I was gonna eat some leftover beef at home. But I'd saved if too long and it had started to go green.
Wraps were Harbinger blacks and wrapped so loosely that I wore them the entire session. In fact, I kept them on on the drive to my dad's shop where I weighed myself in my underwear on his industrial scale (the shop is closed today). I am a frighteningly high 167 lbs even with my prodigious lack of calories for the past 13 hours. I am doing IF because it suits how I like to space my meals (hunger is the best seasoning), because the science makes sense to me, etc...but also because I need to try to get stronger while losing some fat. Plus I'm meeting up with an old flame when she visits Florida. Need to be ready for the beach next Monday.
Some of you may want to protest my use of IF. The high bar heretic now does the opposite of the dietary advice on this site. If you protest, I'll just link a bunch of pro-IF articles and do IF anyway till I find reason not to.
Here is what happened yesterday (which I never got around to blogging)...
[2014-01-04, Sunday]
After a couple thousand kcals for breakfast, I decided to devote the morning to Achilles/gastrocnemius work with dorsiflexion deceleration of increasing intensity...
Ankle hops x 100
One-stair hops x 10, 5
Vertical Jump to stiff-knee landing x 5
And then I felt so revved up that I tested my vertical a couple of times to find I have a non-peaked vertical of 26". Then I figured I'd get in some rare conditioning work with my dad's kettlebell...
Swing with 16 kg KB 1:30 - 1 off - 1:20 - 1 off - 1:10 - 1 off - 1:00
One-arm Press with 16 kg KB 8 x 3
I was sucking major wind after the swings. And my left lat let me know it still isn't at 100%. But I worked out the persistent kink in my left hip after the second round.