Reply With QuoteExactly, I'll relish this opportunity to get easy gains. I understand that they start to come a lot slower, so it's worth the sacrifice right now.
First day at the new gym was a success! The only negative thing I have to say about it is they only have one set of imperial plates away from the power cage (it seems they're primarily focused on oly lifting), so I had to do some kooky plate math. I think after I hit 315 on Friday I'm going to switch over to kilograms just to make my life easier. I'm not thrilled about it, but there are worse problems one could have. So just note that today's weights are probably within a pound or two of what I was supposed to lift. In fact, that might explain the presses being bad. And holy hell, the 4th rep of 310 squats was a grinder. I seriously debated just racking the damn thing, but I had extra confidence thanks to the safeties, so I went for it and happily got the 5th. It seemed like an eternity, but I bet it was only 3 seconds or so.
Squat: 310, 275 backoff
Press: 116.5 2/2/2
Back extensions: 22 10/9/9
Here's a photo of the place: https://instagram.com/p/57EMz_nUjm/?...by=themageling
It's called Athletic Lab, in Cary NC. I highly recommend it. Also if you're only interested in weightlifting stuff maybe don't follow me on Instagram... I post a lot about cats and video games too. :P
It felt good, not the hardest set of squats I've ever done. Weird how that works. The rest of my training didn't go so well. I'm going to make the switch over to kgs now (I partially did today, just wanted to hit that 315 milestone on squats before doing so), I hope that doesn't bother anyone. It bothers me, but the equipment is otherwise perfect for me, so I'll deal with it. Press sucked, I regressed actually. I hope I'm not stalling on 3x3s too now. Power clean was interesting, this gym has bumpers so it was the first time doing the full pull from the floor, so I'm sure I have some kinks to work out in my form.
Originally Posted by cubillini
