Time for another aSS kicking! Confuzzl3don3's SS Log
Ok so i decided to log my progress this time round on here so i can get ridiculed for my weak lifts, laughed at for my bad taste in music and for the general entertainment of you guys who want to see me get squashed into pulp by the barbell.
Monday 30 August
So i've made my first real gain in bodyweight in like 4-5 months. Have put on 0.5kg since last week to 71.5kg. Before i proceed i'd like to say that I'm going to do be doing a compromised SS at best because i will be eating only to gain between 0.5-1kg/week. Hopefully it'll be enough to pull off continual gains.
Coming back from a cut, i deloaded by 10% and am now approaching my maximal weights again.
Worksets only:
Squats - 122.5kg = 5/5/3 (i'm attributing the failed last rep to a poor night's sleep - had to pull off a late nighter to finish off a group project for uni, although i must say the reps were hard. It's quite a blow to the ego when my last completed set was at 125.5kg for 5 and i'm having trouble now with 122.5kg, but i realised that during my cut i was only squatting for 2 sets so it was only 125.5kg for 2. I guess more conservative increases in weight now will be needed to sustain progress.)
Press - 51.5kg = 2/3 (same deal i'm attributing this to the crap rest, but in all honesty i need to work on developing explosiveness at the bottom because that is constantly where i'm getting stuck. I dropped the weight down to complete 2 more sets of 5)
50kg = 5/5
Powercleans - 67.5kg = 3/3/3/3/3 (mixed quality of reps. Some were decent while others were caught a bit low (on the sternal angle) causing some significant bruising.
PS. i don't know if this is related, but i ran into some groin pain after last week's monday session. It's now seemed to have manifested into running down the middle of thigh primarily higher up near the hips. I've tried massaging it with a tennis ball and all that but it's starting to become a nuisance. Might be interfering slightly with my lifts.