Notes: so with baby number 2 on the way this summer, and the pursuit of a 700 deadlift on hold for the immediate future, I decided that it would be best to go back to “all bumper plates” and put the 100’s away for a little while (once I’m at a steady 220ish bodyweight, pulling 585 any time I want it, we’ll think about getting them back out). So I think the home-base workout mentioned above will actually be done with slightly more traditional weights: five singles at 225, five singles at 315, and five singles at 405.
Today was the first 405 pull since my back tweak last Friday and it felt pretty good. Will repeat this for a week or two and re-evaluate then.
Today’s morning weight was 252.2, so I’m down 6.4 pounds in two weeks just by walking a bit more and making some better food choices (I’ve always tracked with MyFitnessPal, but now I’m sticking to a hard cap of 2500 calories per day - though admittedly I don’t “weigh and measure” everything so there’s a bit of uncertainty there - whereas I used to float more around 3000-3200). I am basically sedentary other than the daily walk from parking lot to office and back (but man has that half-mine walk each way been a good addition) and a few deadlifts so there’s no need to fuel up like I’m training for the CrossFit Games or something.
I am a bit nervy about how my back felt on the last pull at 440, so I may dial back one step to the 5 singles at 225-5 singles at 315-last rep at 405 for the rest of this week.
At a conference. Found a decent gym not too far away. Did the first few sets alongside a friend of mine who’s also at the meeting, then jumped up a bit for my last few sets.
We’ll see how it feels tomorrow but I think today was about 85-90 percent, enough that I felt good enough to pull four singles at 405 (and while traveling, not in my home gym with my own kit).
I’ll let you know if that was a fluke or if I really feel on the road to recovery by how tomorrow goes. I’m a bit nervous because I had a long drive (5 hours) today and I was feeling pretty stuff by the time I got home. We’ll see…
Morning weight of 249.6 today, so I’m down exactly 9 pounds in three weeks. Pretty happy with that progress coming almost exclusively from subtle changes to diet (no more dumb snacks, lol) and a bit of extra walking.
I’d peg my back at about 90 percent right now. Finished at 450 tonight and felt good (weight isn’t a struggle, really) but still not perfect. Will keep chugging on doing mostly singles at 405 for the next couple weeks while I shed a few more pounds. Things are going well on that front, and I’m already feeling a bit better (fitting better into my clothes, feeling some of the dad-bod that had crept up on me peeling slowly away to reveal the stronger 220ish pound physique underneath).
Done at a morning bodyweight of 247.8 today. I think how I’ll track my progress for the spring is basically to keep a log of the lowest bodyweight I’ve been when I pull 500 (so the new “PR” in the current cycle will be 500@247.8 - and watching the bodyweight go down while the “500” stays constant for a few months). Any objections? I didn’t think so!
