I’d say this is a subconscious reaction to try to get out of running 
All joking aside- I hope you get better soon. My brother turned his ankle pretty bad a few months ago after falling off his skateboard, took about a week to heal
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Same here! I’m laughing because I’ll roll my ankle by stepping on a pebble on the sidewalk.
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Transformation Challenge week 7:
Weight: 198.4lbs fully dressed. Pretty tired so minimal comment here.
Training: 2 lifting sessions, 2 runs. No 3rd run.
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Been away for a bit but didn’t forget you mate. How’s life in the homeland ?
Lifes pretty good man. Kids are back at school, and we’re a couple of days into those little mini summers you get at the start of the year. Like a teaser trailer for real summer.
Starting to get a little bit of a rhythm with training again, and counting down the days until gyms open again (which I’ll do a separate post about at some point tonight). Also: I run now, so it’s not all good news.
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Took a total day off today. Was feeling like shit and with plenty of little niggles here and there bugging me, so I ate a bit more, slept a bit more and spent some time with the kids.
Going forward I now have a (provisional) time frame for the gyms to reopen in 6 weeks time. That also coincides with a holiday we have booked, and gives me a firm deadline to work towards (I like those). Before then, I would like to get myself into the 180lbs and complete couch to 5k, setting myself up for a slight shift in focus with access to all the gym toys.
Lifting wise: I’m going to keep with Morning Star and do one more cycle, but probably remove almost all non-pulling assistance in an effort to reduce session time. I’ll also continue my daily swings, at least on days I work early, with the aim of getting 5 sessions a week and building the habit ready to increase the daily workload once gyms reopen.
Nutrition wise: CarbonDiet, but actually following it apart from on rare occasions (like my little man’s birthday on Friday and my better halfs birthday in early April). Probably stick to a similar meal pattern as I already have, because I know it works.
Next program is already in the works because I want to be excited by it. Add the excitement of being back of the gym, the excitement of a new “perfect” program, built around all the stuff I know works for me and the ability to add some calories back in and I think I could be looking at my most productive few months of training ever. Just got to get there first.
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How’s the ankle?
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Slightly sore, definitely still swollen. That’s one of the little niggles I was talking about earlier.
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Work for today:
Jumps: 10
Snatch Grip High Pulls from Hang:
2-2-3-3 @ 70kg ss. Pull ups
Squats:
5 x 5 @ 95kg ss. Pull ups
Press:
7 x 10 @ 47.5kg
3 x 10 @ 47.5kg ss. Lateral raises and BPAs
Barbell upright rows:
2 x 15 @ 20kg
Poundstone curls:
100 @ whatever the dumbbell handle weighs
Notes:
- Knocked this out in slightly over an hour, could have gone quicker if I needed to.
- High Pulls felt better. Still don’t really “get” the movement I don’t think.
- Squats felt dodgy but easy enough that it wasn’t an issue.
- Realised when calculating weights for this last night that these FSL weights are far heavier than they should be for press, but still plenty easy so I’ve just gone for SSL weights instead.
- Good shoulder pump today too.
- Poundstone curls were too easy. Didn’t even consider breaking, will add weight slowly to these.
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Straight bar it up man. Big part of it is forcing the hand to stay in the underhand position. Lotta lifters “lose” that, and this helps you keep it.
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For clarity, the way I did it was to hold either end of a loadable Olympic dumbbell and did the curls that way. Essentially making a very short bar, with axle diameter.
Ah, I get it. Very narrow grip I imagine.
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Fairly narrow, yes. Not an issue so far, but something to keep an eye on.
Dunno if you peeped my pool noodle suggestion to @kdjohn, but it’s a very low cost way to turn a narrow bar into a fat bar.
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Did you load the handle as well? Or was it just the handle (mine are 5kg, I’d imagine you want to load it up a bit I can’t imagine 5kg X 100 would be worth it).
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I have fatgripz collecting dust if that was needed.
Let them keep collecting dust: fat gripz suck. Only thing I care to use them on it to make the ab wheel hurt my elbows less.
Not this time, since I haven’t done a curl for a long, long time. They’ll be loaded next time.
What’s a pool noodle @T3hPwnisher mate
