5 rounds:
Ng chins X 5
Dips X 10
Ghr X 5
Ab roll X 5
Good start to the day, was freezing in the garage (only like -2 but that’s colder than I like!) Pretty warm by the time I left (apart from my hands). Was going to get up at 6am and do this, then had a bad nights sleep, but fit it in when the Mrs walked the kids to school which is perfect and will be my new regular time (allows me to get up at normal time and get a couple of coffees in me first!).
Thanks @T3hPwnisher for the ideas, half my training these days seems to be pilfered from your log.
Based on the comment about your kids, I think you may have a separation between your training life and the rest of life. But, based on my last week, I want to share something:
That mindset is a negative trap. Negativity seems to breed negativity. You sound just like me. I was asked to talk about something positive at work because I’ve been stuck in a negative funk. I said I’m happy when I solve a case and I’m able to charge someone with the theft and/or use of someone else’s credit card. But then I think about all the cases for which I don’t have time and those victims. They’re getting let down.
I turned a positive thing into a negative thought. It’s a tricky little trap, but it has a way of sucking the joy out of life because everything is viewed through a negative filter.
For training stuff, you (we) could definitely throw in some positives:
fail a deadlift - “Whew, I could’ve blown out my back. Not a bad effort.”
see someone stronger than you - “Man that’s awesome for them; I’m glad I’m able to pursue strength with a mostly healthy body.”
And on and on. I’m sharing this for me and others. It’s funny how it’s easy to spot our own problems in other people. Now on to the correction part…
Definitely good to see you finding the positives, important to hold all things in perspective (preferably an eternal one) this is a hobby for all of us here, missed a lift? Get it next time. Not meeting your own expectations? Keep persevering - you’ve still got breath in your lungs. None of these are reasons to slack but just keeping things in perspective.
Also important not to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory - celebrate the wins, don’t dwell on the times you don’t quite get there, if there’s any good learning points from that experience get them and use them to move on, be satisfied with the experience.
Dropped ab roll today, got ab DOMS from yesterday’s so will go alternative days until that disappears (happens every time I drop ab rolls and add them back in, be a week until it’s daily).
Called it here, there is something physically off with my back I can feel a specific spot that’s really narced off by convo deads - going to book a physio trip and sort that out, might make convo deads good, here’s hoping.
TBDL 5’s:
68, 108, 128, 148kg X 5
Bit of light work to make sure I got something in, not 100% on back but not painful just reminding that bad spot is there!
Lat pulldown:
Wide bar: 80kg X 20
Ng close handle: 80kg, 15, 15, 15
Cable row straight small handle:
80kg X 15 X 3
Poundstone axles: 21kg X 80, bar down 8 breaths 20. Axles just game changingly awful. Got to 80 before bar down though.
Fingers crossed that you find a good physio and get your conventional fixed. Rom progression is an excellent idea to ease into them.
As would be the deadlift rebuild program that Mark wrote for me after my back injurd two years ago.
Thanks @Koestrizer I’m booked in for tomorrow evening with someone who’s highly regarded in this area, I’ve been to his clinic before and had someone other than him and she was awesome, so I’m assuming he’ll be good.
Hoping the ROM progression will help get me into this “real” deadlifting thing.
Got woken up at 4am (pager) I thought about channeling @T3hPwnisher and hitting the weights, decided I like sleep too much, tried to get back to sleep, after about an hour of trying I gave up:
Bench:
60, 80, 90kg X 5
Slingshot - 100, 110, 120kg X 5
Inc bench:
60kg X 8, 70kg X 8 X 4
Been a while, amazing how much something like this sucks when you return to it (bit like front squats) light weight but still had me feeling it.
Chins: 20kg X 4 X 4
Dips: 20kg X 8 X 4
Cable tri pulldown: 20kg X 100 reps
Thought I’d go for tricep “poundstone” not quite the same obviously, got to 75 before a brief pause in the contracted position, same pause at 89. Definitely turned a but more full body by the end (abs got involved early as well). Little Tri pump.
Haha genuinely considered running a 7 minute mile on the treadmill today (just because you and @cyrrex had a recent convo about it and thought I’d just jump in and do it to be a douche).
I also woke up this morning and considered pulling a 6 plate deadlift (or whatever it is that you call that thing you do). I decided not to though. Save your feelings and all.
I think the key is a treadmill for me it sets the pace* I just keep running, it sucked big time haven’t run for ages but its only 7 mins I can endure.
*I Googled the pace before doing this, 8.6mph, great I can do that…but I didn’t account for the treadmill being slow to get to speed making a substantial difference, ramped it up to 10mph to get it in, most unwelcome… but I had a completely pointless point to prove.
Haha my brain was trying pretty hard at 5 mins, but I am slowly learning to know how much the brain restricts me and makes me quit way before my body is any sort of danger.
