Freakin’ SWEET lifetime PR! Way to push through the sticking point!!
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Look who’s having a PR party! No need for all that self doubt last week. Congratulations!!!
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Thanks! I appreciate the support.
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Eh, not going to bother to log the last few days of stuff here. I’m
hitting the reset button on training.
Today: 4 miles; and yoga.
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Saturday: 30 min on bike
Bench:
Triples to 105, singles at 110 & 115
Amrap at 85 x17
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Sunday: 4 mile run
Monday: squats 5s bar,65,85,105,125
Amrap 140x18. CNS was lit. Keep thinking I’ll add accessories but I really have such little capacity. Frustrating. And not. I think I know what it feels like to get stronger. And the experience of that amrap set was it.
Decided to do MP and maybe accessories for both lifts tomorrow? Making it up as I go.
Bar x5; AMRAP at 50 x15. Ooof.
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Tuesday: 4 miles @ 10 min mile pace
Accessories: Bulgarians 5 sets of 12
Pull-ups laddering up and part way down:
5,6,7,8,9,9,8,6
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I have trained but not logged.
Yesterday: 4 miles
Today: 3 miles hiking
Squats: work up to amrap 145x17
Bulgarians bwx10x5
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Thursday: 4 miles
Friday: yoga
Saturday: deadlifts 185x15; MP 55x15; HLR 3 sets of 8.
Deadlifts are disappointing me right now. I can handle a plateau. But this feels like regression. Because 185 is slow off the floor and it should not be slow.
And this is the cycle I have been caught in. Train… make good progress. Regress…think body needs rest. Intend to take a week or two off. End up being out of the gym for months. Until I start over again. And make a vow never to stay out of the gym for months and have to start over again. Because starting over is humiliating.
Blegh. I need to be more resilient.
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Try a different rep scheme. When I can’t get past a certain number of reps, I usually raise the weight a lot and do low-rep clusters. It seems you’ve hit a rep range sticking point, and going much heavier (singles, doubles, and triples) or much lighter (I don’t recommend that for straight bar deadlifts) is worth trying.
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I agree with TnT. Try a different approach before getting discouraged. How do you feel about deficit deadlifts? On conventional deads I have trouble breaking the floor, deficits have helped.
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When was the last deload? You could also share a video of a recent set
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Heheh, welcome to my life…
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@ChickenLittle @TriednTrue thanks for the support and encouragement. I likely do need to do something differently. But It will
Have to wait until August. I get to go on vacation soon! 
@Bagsy I stayed out of the gym 6/23-6/28, and I only ran 1x during that period. Considering the modest amount of work I do, I don’t think I should be struggling. I also am not cutting calories or doing anything like that. Someone once me told me that the body does not distinguish psychological stressors from physical ones. I’ll confess, it that’s universally believed to be true, it’s not something I have believed—until maybe now. This is not my dear diary. I only really want to write about training. But in the back of my mind I think maybe it’s not training related. But yeah, I can put up a deadlift video. I haven’t been filming them but maybe that would help to see them.
Sunday: too much time in the car. Yoga and press handstand drills.
Monday: 4 miles. 10:30 pace.
Mp: 55x5; 65x8; 70x3; 75x2
Tomorrow: I make my triumphant return to gymnastics. I’m taking a class for adults. I am afraid we may be confined to the floor only, which is great for the first class. But I’d like to eventually find my way back to the beam
And bars. Those are my events.
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The secret to a press to handstand from a straddle stand is getting the shoulders over the hands. Here, I use momentum and an assist
From a bed to take some of the stress off my shoulders. You need to pull those shoulders back to neutral before you hit vertical or you fall forward as I do. Still, I was happy to lift up Without jumping. It’s a bit of progress for me with this skill.
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That was awesome!
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I agree with @SkyzykS … that was awesome! I would have wrecked the bedroom 
Kudos for getting back into it.
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Nice. I dabbled in gymnastics when I was, like, 6-7 years old. I could never make it past level two I think. While it was not the sport for me, it fascinates me, and I look forward to hopefully catching some of the Olympic coverage in a few weeks.
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Tuesday: gymnastics! The class was good. Probably about 25 adults. And by adults I mean actual adults and not HS cheerleaders trying to learn to tumble. There was a range of abilities—some who had clearly done gymnastics before and some strong athletic people—likely cross fitters— just going for it.
No surprise, but in case there was any doubt, powerlifting and distance running do not prepare a body for gymnastics. I managed to tweak something in my upper back or shoulder on bars doing a drop kip. This is a conditioning skill or drill that isolates the second half of the kip—the pull. I remember doing sets of 10 of these and that memory (among others)—that feeling that I had doing those—is what motivates me as an athlete. High rep deadlifts. Long easy runs. It’s like getting high—feeling physically capable—being just a body moving in space not thinking.
Anyway, I’ll do that class again. I just have to take it slower.
Wed: 5 miles
Thursday: off
Friday: squats amrap: 150x17
Bulgarians, face pulls, push downs.
I can hang on the bar without pain today. Hurts a bit to retract my scapula. Going to have to rest my upper body some more.
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Today: 4 miles: 10:30 pace. The sun beat me up this morning and I suffered for it.
Testing my upper back/shoulder with bench. Worked up to 90x 6. Light dumbbell rows. Banded dislocates and face pulls. YTLs.
Things are improving.
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