the amount of ice cream i've eaten since my last post is certifiably obscene.
today i was nervous to squat because i'm pretty much at my work-weight all-time max and i hate failing. i also hate pain.
squat
45x5
65x5
95x5
120x3
135x2
145x1
155x1 This was supposed to be my first work set. I racked it after the first rep for no reason other than I wussed out.
155x5x3 Unpretty. I get soft at the bottom lately and then lose my back on the way up. Really I'm squatting a bit too deep, which after a year is a tough habit to unlearn.
Also, my current 1-RM is 170 so this feels pretty fucking heavy.
Press
First day on the new program, which is 5 sets of 3 reps.
work: 52.5.
No issues.
Clean
I forget, either 80 or 85. I only did two sets of planned three because my shoulder is really bugging me - I think it's the pushup program I'm on.
THEN
I tested if I could do a strict chin-up yet. To my surprise, I didn't have trouble getting from dead-stop to halfway up - that's new. In the past I haven't been able to get the thing started at all from a dead hang.
This time, suddenly, I was able to; then I stalled halfway up and couldn't get going again.
So I put up the thinnest band we have - it kind of looks like a rubber band, this thing, quite thin and flimsy and a hilarious shade of pinky orange, like salt water taffy.
And I did it. One chin-up with that sucker.
That's new. I mean, I lost some weight. But whatever, I'm way closer to a chin-up than I was two months ago.