Couple notes from today. One, my back feels MUCH better than it did a few days ago, and I pulled three fairly clean singles at 435 without incident. Two, I decided to end today with a big finishing set on the leg press machine where I just tossed a 100-pound plate on each side (the poor things, nobody ever uses them…they always just sit there ignored on the weight tree for the leg press machine as people mindlessly put on a handful of 45’s instead of using the 100’s) and cranked out reps until the song ended. Would probably do me some good to add this at the end of every deadlift workout…I’ll give it a shot for a few weeks.
Second time running with my wife. All things considered, feeling pretty good. Will probably try to keep it at 25 minutes for September, then 30 minutes in October, 35 minutes in November, and up to 45 minutes by the end of December.
Good news / bad news here. The good news is that my back feels fine - no awful “What did I do this time?” feeling. The bad news, which isn’t really all that bad, is that the pair of singles at 455 were much more difficult grinders than I would have liked. Oh well, we press on. I did my now-standard giant set on the leg press (30x200 today) and some kettlebell tomfoolery.
The sunny perspective is that it’s a crisp fall Sunday, I did pull two tough-but-no-doubt-about-it singles with a weight that wasn’t even on my radar yet at this time last year, and now I’m headed home for an aftenoon of drinking apple cider, cooking beef stew, and lazily watching some football.
DB Lat Raise 10x5’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Lat Raise 10x10’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Lat Raise 10x15’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Front Raise 10x10’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Front Raise 10x15’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Front Raise 10x20’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Curl 10x15’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Curl 10x20’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Curl 10x25’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Press 10x30’s
KB Swing 10x88
DB Press 10x35’s
KB Swing 10x88
KB Press 1x88
KB Press 1x88
KB Press 1x88
KB Press 1x88
A little different progression today. I wanted to see what it felt like to deadlift with some 100’s on the bar. Unfortunately the 100’s at my gym aren’t quite the same make so they are a litle different sizes, which is why I’ve always just pulled with a stack of 45’s on each side. Honestly these felt pretty good, though.
Run #4 with my wife. Things seem to be going pretty well after a three-years-plus hiatus from running. I’ve got no intentions of taking on another marathon but I feel that, as a fit man, I should at least be able to head out the door and jog for half an hour, especially on such a nice fall day.
It has been 95 degrees every day here in the south since the first official day of fall. Feels like we are a long way away from “a nice fall day.” Haha!!
I spent a couple years running semi-competitively at distances from 5K through half-marathon, and I don’t expect to approach my PR’s from that time by running 3-5 miles once a week, haha, or even get really close. But I am confident that doing so (as part of a broader fitness regimen that also includes lifting weights and yoga) should be enough to do something positive.
I don’t think it’s an absolute necessity; right now it’s really just out of a desire to enjoy the basic pleasure of going out for a run. I did really like running, I just couldn’t stay healthy running super high mileage. So this time around, by keeping it as sort of a general-fitness thing, secondary to my lifting goals, I should be able to keep it sustainable…as a healthy non-obese male, I really ought to be conditioned enough to go out and run 5 miles without being laid up afterwards.