yeah, mine neither. It doesn't help when I sit down and blow a shirt button across the room...
W3D4
didn't train yesterday because I was running around like a blue arsed fly. Wound up doing a lot of walking
Food is OK, sleep was broken
Press
75 x 1 @7
80 x 1 @8
83.5 x 1 @?
67.5 x 4 x 5
top single felt really good, but it stopped about halfway up. I don't know how it can feel like an 8 but also be red lighted.
wore a belt for back off work today which made it really easy. I can start pushing this harder now if I'm wearing a belt
Paused squat
100 x 4
110 x 4
120 x 4 x 3
first set at 120 was shallow, but fixed that for the next 2 sets. I find paused/pin squats harder to guage depth on
LTE
17.5kg/hand x 8, 8, 6
didn't help that on the last set I smacked the dumbbell on my head.
Video (minus the head smack)
when I got to the gym the only other person there was the gym owner - a 50yo british immigrant with huge arms. He was doing his BB split, blasting "best of Studio 54 mega mix"
W3 D5
slept well. Stress still high, but I'm plodding along
deadlift
160 x 1 @6
170 x 1 @7
180 x 1 @8
140 x 4 x 5
firstly, my poor, soft hands! I hadn't realised how unaccustomed to knurling and load they'd become!
second, hooray for 4 plates again. Felt pretty solid too
Finally, I'm letting the bar drift ahead of me - which is why I filmed the last volume work set. I think I was OK reps 1 and 2, but 3 and 4 swung away. Ergh, more form errors. I think I need to get back into setting up closer to the bar - I'm too far away
Catapult bench
117.5 x 4 @8
122.5 x 4 @9
127.5 x 4 @9.5 (this is a rep PR, btw)
127.5 x 3 @9.5 and I stopped
I'm back to letting the bar drift around and it's hurting my shoulders. Too much elbow flare - gotta get back into the habit of getting them set throughout the rep.
Video
Gym Story:
there was a rack free but the last user had left the bar sitting on the pins on the outside of the rack. A guy walks up and steps over the bar, sets up squats inside the rack. He keeps stepping over the bar or the safeties to get in and out of the rack, and eventually he hits is 135 squat sets, and they're wobbly AF. I figured if he falls, or misses a rep, he's going to kill himself, so after he's done (and steps over the bar to go rest) I grab the bar and move it out of his way. He then grabs another bar and puts it back there. He wanted it so he could superset his zero weight hip thrusts between squat sets. It would be embarrassing if I actually gave a fuck.
W4 D1
I am wrecked - had a huge weekend hosting a 40th for my wife and an 8th for the middle kid. Nutrition was commensurate with party food too
Squat
150 x 1
160 x 1
170 x 1 @8
135 x 4 x 5
all went pretty well. Last 2 sets were the best - finally remembered how to spring out of the hole and those sets were nice and snappy
press
67.5 x 4
70 x 4
72.5 x 4 x 3 @9-9.5
heavy, but OK
seated cable row
65 x 8 x 5
nice and fast, was getting the weights to jump which I should probably avoid.
eeeish
W4 D2
slept like shit again. I don't know what to do about my wife's snoring. Also feel like I'm getting sick
bench
110 x 1 @7 or less
115 x 1 @7
122.5 x 1 @8
100 x 4 x 5
long pauses, felt OK. reps moved slowly, but felt strong
Paused deadlift
100 x 4 @7
110 x 4 @8
120 x 4 x 3 @<9
no problems
leg press
162.5 x 8 x 5
bit of low back pain doing these. got up and cracked my back and was fine
video
I went over lunch due to meetings and it was moron hour at my gym. one dude never stopped talking on his bluetooth, babbling away in what I think was Arabic. He was fucking drenched in CK one. There was also a full mui thai kit wearing dude who did trap bar pulls with the high handles off blocks.
well I've maxed out all the bedrooms in the house, so unless I want to sleep in one of the kids rooms I've got nowhere else to go. earplugs might work. Wife reckons it's only because she's got a cold - we'll see
yeah, I've read his strength theory thing on the J curve. i agree it makes sense but it hurts my shoulder to do it. Maybe I'm doing it too severely? I think it's less something that comes naturally than it is something that happens when i get lazy
W4 D4
missed yesterday's training. Missed yesterday's lunch too, TBH. Work is busy, and getting busier. I have no idea how I'm going to manage to train for the rest of this year
Press
75 x 1 @7
80 x 1 @8
85 x 0
65 x 5 x 4
well that sucked. Funny how during my last big run through the 12 week strength program I also got stuck on 85kg...80KG felt pretty good, so I was surprised I missed 85
paused squat
105 x 4
115 x 4
125 x 4 x 3
These were all pretty good.
LTE
35 x 8 x 3
these are better when you don't take the name "skull crusher" too literally