5/23/19
Gym 1130
Heavy SQ: 280x1x2
Heavy P 2.0: 108x1x5
DL: 280x5
Heavy BP: 193x1x2
Huh...usually traffic and bad days at work F up my weeknight training. Maybe I need to eat peanut butter.
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5/23/19
Gym 1130
Heavy SQ: 280x1x2
Heavy P 2.0: 108x1x5
DL: 280x5
Heavy BP: 193x1x2
Superstition? Ritual? Or valid nutritional fact? I have made it a habit to eat oatmeal made with Fairlife milk every training day, for the complex carbs. But this morning my wife surprised me with an omelette, croissant, pineapple, strawberries, and blueberries. Is the lack of oatmeal what made squats so hard today?
5/26/19
Gym 1300
Medium SQ: 45x5x2, 135x5, 185x3, 230x2, 255x5 (PR), 285 walkout, 245x5, 3
Barbell rows: 190x5, 165x5, 135x5
I did have my oatmeal this morning.
5/27/19
Gym 1300
Medium strict P: 99x5x2
Medium BP: 194x1 (overwarmup), 175x4x2
Pull-ups: BWx6
Chins: BWx5, 4
I noticed some unusual knee pain after Sunday's SQ workout. On Tuesday, my right knee, which had an ACL reconstruction about 15 years ago, was very tender in the patella tendon, to the point that the rough fabric of denim touching it was irritating. THEN my left knee had an interior pain going down stairs. This persisted until Thursday afternoon. I probably paid for that 255x5 PR on Sunday with tendon inflammation, due to dive bombing and knee slide. I decided to try pin squats instead of not squatting at all.
5/30/19
Gym 16:45
Pin SQ: 45x3, 135x3, 140x3, 145x3. 150x3. Took me many reps with the empty bar to find the pin setting which didn't require relaxing to touch. Seemed a lot higher than my normal pin setting (5-6 holes on a Rogue rack), so next time I'll video to make sure I hit depth.
Heavy P 2.0: 109x1x5
DL: 285x5. Wonder if barbell rows might interfere with DL technique, in that the bar left my shins on more than one rep, even at this light weight.
Heavy BP: 195x1x2
Hope the knee feels better. I bought some cream called Uncle Budds Hemp Oil cream on Amazon last week for my aching shoulder it seemed to work well.
As for the pin squats, I've seen then also called Anderson Sqts, in reference to the great Paul Anderson. Some times the are done from the bottom position and not below parralell.
Thanks. Do you know if that product is based on CBD? I ask because CBD seems to be all the rage. Guess I'll have to consider ibuprofen, too.
I'm just doing the pin squats from the top down, with a light touch. I'll have to take video next time to see where I'm at in relation to parallel.
Today I took a time machine backwards to 5/15/19. How is that possible, you might ask? I programmed myself to do a BP overwarmup single of 196, but misloaded it to 191, which I last did May 15th. Guess i'd rather think, "Boy, that was hard", and discover i misloaded too much, than the opposite.
6/1/19
Gym 1300
Medium strict P: 100x5x2
Medium BP: 45x5, 95x4, 135x3, 177x2, 191x1 (overwarmup, misload), 177x4x2
Chins: BWx7, 6, 3
6/2/19
Gym 1300
Pin SQ: 45x3, 135x3, 155x3, 160x3, 165x3. Video of the last set indicates I need to set the pins at least 1 hole lower to break parallel.
Bar rows: 135x5, 195x4+F, 165x5