Today's workout. In short: ELBOW. FUCK. Gotta do something about it.
Warmup: 5 min cardio, 3x10 shoulder dislocations, 3x1 bodyweight squats holding the bottom position, 3x8 straight back good mornings with empty bar (started doing these after reading in the book that they are a very good hamstring stretch)
Squats:
2x5 empty bar
60kg 2x5
80kg 1x5
82.5kg 1x2
85kg ... was planning to do 3x5, but on the first set 3rd rep I get this funny feeling in my left elbow. I look up at the mirror (normally I try to avoid this) and what do I see... A FUCKING ASYMMETRY. The left wrist is completely straight, the right one is flexed over the bar, the right elbow is higher up and back and closer to the body than the left one. I cannot fix this in the middle of the set so I rack. The left elbow starts to flare up, I deload to work on form.
60kg. Get under the bar and try to get into correct position looking in the mirror. Turns out to be impossible, WTF, my arms do not listen to me.
Empty bar. Get under the bar and do a few walk-outs trying to get the correct form. Not so well. WTF? At this point I am very pissed.
Press
empty bar 2x5
30kg 1x5
40kg 1x3
47,5kg 3,2,1 - the elbow makes the rack position painful, ruins the press. Maybe it was a bad judgment to press at all this time.
Deadlift
60kg 2x5
100kg 1x5
110kg 1x2
115kg 1x5 - goes as planned, the only lift that is unaffected by elbow troubles.
So, this sucks. The next time I squat I am going to start with an empty bar, will work on my form even if it means I can only squat 30kg. Fuck.