Unruhschuh's log [8/5/2] [twice per week]

[unruhschuh]

2017-10-05
I had the dumbz today. First I took 5 minutes rest on the press when it should have been 6. Before the last set I spotted a fellow lifter in the squat and thus took 11 minutes rest before the last set. I’ll repeat that weight next time and take 6 minutes rest throughout.

Then I did Bench Presses immediately after Presses, so I swapped them with the Paused Deadlifts.

To top it off I tried to film my squats with the 4K settings on my phone without realizing that it only allows a recording time of 1 minute. I need a new brain.

Maybe I was distracted, because my back acted weirdly the whole day. It always felt like a cramp was going to happen and then it didn’t. No problems thus far since then.

I’m still trying to figure out how to do the Barbell Curls. This time I did three sets of 5s accross with 3 minutes rest and then AMRAP@8-9 (gasp, RPE!) on 1 minutes rest. It felt alright and I think I’ll stick to that approach for the moment.

After reading Les’ thread on KUA, I feel tempted to try it out, but I’ll stick to my program as long as it works. It seems like I could morph my program slowly into KUA, given it also revolves around doing 8s and then tapering it down to 2s and 1s, though over the course of a longer time period than three weeks.

Exercise	weight x reps x sets	[rest in minutes]
Squat	270x8x3	[5,5]
Press	147x5x5	[5,5,7,11]
Bench Press	135x10+10+7+7=34	[2,2,2]
Paused Deadlift	260x8x3	[5,5]
Barbell Curls	75x5+5+5=15 50x14+8+8=30	[3,3,1,1,1]

[unruhschuh]

2017-10-08
I’m already at 5 sets for 30 reps of pull ups and my goal was to do 50 reps at some point. I’ll either settle with less reps or I might try taking only 1 minute rests to speed things up. I’m mainly concerned with compliance here, cause if it takes too long, I might lose the drive to do them at all. They are my least favourite “lift”.

Pull Up 10+6+6+6+5=33 [2,2,2,2]

[unruhschuh]

2017-10-09

The last rep of the second set of Presses was already a grind, so I took 9 minutes rest before the third set, which was an uber-grind (see video below). Not sure what to do here. Either I drop to singles or try to repeat weights once I fail. From experience I know, that this doesn’t work very well, though.

Exercise	weight x reps x sets	[rest in minutes]
Deadlift	340x8x3	[5,5]
Press	170x2x3	[6,9]
Paused Squat	225x8x3	[5,5]
Dumbbell Bench Press	75x5+5+5=15 60x10+7+7=24	[3,3,1,1,1]
Barbell Curls	77x5+5+5=15 50x12+10+9=31	[3,3,1,1,1]

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2017-10-11
Chin Up 10+7+7+6+6=36 [2,2,2,2]