2021.5.30
82,0 kg
1630 kcal, 52,7 g fats, 74,3 g carbs, 214 g protein
Morning pull supersets
My usual one cup of coffee a day was never going to be enough today. Dragging!
Warm-up
Pull-ups — pronated grip
5.8@8 stiff, despite warm-up
5.8@9
&
Let-me-ins (towel rows):
12.6@7 stiff
12.6@9
Let-me-ins with approx. 5-sec contraction at top:
5.12@8
5.12@8
&
Towel curls:
5 l-m.8@9
4 m-h.8@10
Let-me-ups (inverted bodyweight rows) with supinated grip:
5.8@8 good contraction
5.8@8
&
Let-me-ins (towel rows) with palms up:
12.8@9 forearms!
8.8@9 grip spasm
Two more cups of coffee later, I was finally ready for . . .
Afternoon PLP
Middle finger of left hand is still numb, so rather than risk further injury or cheat by shortening reps, I decided to go back and climb this hill from the beginning again, to see if I could get farther this time.
For P & P explosive up, 1-2-sec pause, 6-sec eccentric; for L 6-sec pause at bottom each side
Day 1: Supinated grip: 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 (15)
I’ve never tried supinated grip before but did so at @dagill2’s suggestion to someone else in a different thread (switching up the grip every two days). I can see that I’m going to have to focus on keeping the elbows pushing downwards towards the floor throughout the movement to avoid strain.
I’m not sure if this is the right approach for my situation, but I was inspired by something @damo_suzuki wrote that almost got buried in a different thread (Volume Management, Overtraining and Non-Responders):
So I decided to try this with my PLP and see where it takes me. I can say that simply removing the stress of facing something I don’t think I can manage without injury right now made a world of difference. For the first time in a long time, I ended the “workout” (brief and energetic as it was) with more energy than I started with.
EDIT: I finally found the suggestion to switch up the grip. It was made by @Voxel, not by @dagill2. My apologies to both for misremembering the reference. For those who are interested, the text reads: