Originally Posted by
balikati
August 5 2022 Friday
Today I had a very tiresome day and by the time I went to the gym I hadn't eaten anything except a banana for 7 hours.
•Squat 1x5 137.5kg, 2x5 122.5kg
Could only do 2 reps. Second one was a grind, it took around 5 seconds to get it up. I proceeded to do 3 singles with only a couple minutes inbetween after that. Better than leaving it at 2 I think. It also slightly messed up my left shoulder and elbow. This used to happen when I first started lifting, and I injured my elbow once too. It stressed me out a little bit so I thought I'd do the back off sets high bar. I did 2 reps, wasn't a grind but I was so devoid of energy I just couldn't go down for the third. It was the first time I did a high bar squat, and now I've observed firsthand how it's more difficult than low bar. Didn't help with my shoulder though so I switched to low bar again. Since the first one ended up being a double I thought I'd continue that way today so I did 5 more doubles with 122.5.
This no stretch issue is becoming a problem for me. When I am doing the back off sets, I go all the way down to the Earth's core and get a nice stretch and bounce out of the hole. With the work sets I try to do them only slightly lower than parallel as prescribed and there's absolutely no bounce whatsoever. It's basically a box squat without the box. I don't know how to remedy this.
After the squat session was done I was so tired and sleepy that I was basically yawning in the middle of a workout. Also felt very hungry too.
•Overhead Press 3x5 55kg
I didn't want to skip this, but I felt so tired that I couldn't bring myself to do it the way I normally do. So I did it the way I've seen called Press 1.5 in these forums before. First rep; Valsava, hip thrust and lockout at the top, hold it there, exhale, Valsalva, bring it down, bounce and back up. Probably won't do it like that again but it felt nice.
I did 4, 4, 3, 3, 1.
Barbell Curl 3x10 40kg
There was no way in hell I had enough energy left for this so I skipped it.