Travel Deload - d5
Thursday - 29 September 2022
Workout: No training
Jet lag found me.
Or something like that: I didn’t fall asleep until nearly midnight, wide awake at 0300, then dead tired just in time to actually start the day. Lots of coffee to power through the late-morning/early-afternoon brainstorming. Luckily the local office and lunch/dinner options didn’t miraculously get closer: I still got in a few miles of walking, just because I had to.
Up and out early tomorrow to catch a series of planes, trains, and automobiles (though not in that order) to find my way home. Not sure what my internal clock will be doing by the time I make it there, but I’m pretty sure my body’s not going to say, “Hey, let’s do a workout!”
Oh, and I also learned I may be taking a road trip to my sister’s on Saturday, so that’s a new twist. But unless the sky is falling, I’ve got 139 unbroken BB curls to look forward to, and there may be time/energy for more.
Final thought: I recently realized I never edited that c17w3 summary post, so I never really processed the last week of Hardgainers or put down goals for this week.
The summary part is pretty easy: The week was hard, Hard, HARD, and every workout was a real slog, but in the end I crushed 100 reps of each assistance category 4 times that week. I wasn’t sure I could manage it, but I did.
On the whole, 5/3/1 for Hardgainers is absolutely awesome. Period. Full stop.
However, tackling it while:
- bootstrapping myself into a new job;
- shifting to a new, very early lifting schedule; and,
- pushing dips and chin-ups/pull-ups to an unprecedented 100 reps per workout
may have been a bad idea.
At the same time, I’m looking at myself in the mirror here in this hotel and I’m thinking maybe it was actually a Really Bad Idea: My whole upper body—and my lats and shoulders in particular—look frikin’ huge. I’m also way leaner than I’d expect after eating out for every meal since last Saturday afternoon.
In reality, it’s probably just anabolic lighting in an unfamiliar environment… Who knows?
And maybe the lack of goals for this week’s travel deload is a good thing, because really all I’m aiming to do at this point is make it back home and regroup for whatever’s next…