7WP, Deload - d7
Saturday - 31 December 2022
Workout: Easy conditioning & BB curls, 0935-1030 (55 minutes)
1-pump burpees + 28-kg KB swings - 2x(25 + 25), 25-second rest between
Bike@120-140 bpm - 25 minutes
BB curl - 157 (rep PR)
Fasted.
Well that’s that: I started with 100 unbroken BB curls for the first time on Saturday, 01 January, and I ended up with 157 unbroken in 8:50 on Saturday, 31 December. Pretty cool!
Here it is:
Man, that is one ugly-a$$ set!
It’s the only one I’ve ever recorded, and I’m glad about that, 'cause I might’ve given up on the goal: Looks like there’s way more body english than I would’ve guessed and the pausing at the top just kills me. But the expressions on my face are priceless—at least we can all get a good laugh out of that!
After that first set on New Year’s Day, I hit 100 unbroken regularly in the weeks following, I set a few small rep PRs here and there, and then I pushed it as high as 126 unbroken reps before I began wondering about adding weight and working back up to 100.
It was then that Pwn suggested I continue chasing the rep PRs:
So that’s what I did: From 111 unbroken on the 11th Saturday of 2022 (c10w2d7, 19 Mar 2022) until today, I added a rep a week, ultimately arriving at 157 unbroken reps this morning—the 152 required reps with 5 insurance reps, just in case I miscounted. (In case you’re wondering: Yes, I played back the video and counted again—I actually did all 157 reps!)
If you’ve been following along, you know I didn’t actually do these BB curls every Saturday—I was pretty religious about it for awhile, but life would get in the way every now and then, so sometimes I’d end up doing 2 or even 3 sets in a week. That notwithstanding, I did go from 111, to 112, to 113, to …, to 152, so we’re calling it good.
And besides, I’ve said all along these sets were more about mental fortitude than about growing big biceps, so…
Mission accomplished!