Barrel mills - This move is kicking the shit out of me.
Reverse 90s - Got a full turn. Go up, pause on the spinning arm and wait for the legs to get high, then spin. Instead of just throwing my legs up in a circle.
Nothing new anywhere else. Right wrist is still stiff.
Assistance work:
Lat pull-down - 10x10x100-115
DB/Wide-grip OHP - 10x10 total
Let’s see. If I organize my training priorities like this, basically in order of difficulty/importance:
Strength - heavy lifting/speed practice
Bboying - power moves
Size - assistance work
Conditioning - sprints
Then I can think of any typical training session as including two adjacent sections. So a day where I’m feeling really sharp would be like max out on deads and then go flip off my head for an hour. A step down from that would be doing power moves and then going getting a pump, like today. If I can’t even bring myself to practice, then it comes to size/conditioning; which would really be a pretty short session since it’d be just like light lifting and then go run some hills.
Wrist is getting better, should be good to bench tomorrow.
Barrel mills - not getting any better.
Handhops - hit 4, most ever
Reverse 90s - got some good ones.
Lat pulldowns/machine rows, 10x10 total
Then something weird happened. I went to some cable machine to try some upright rows, and I was hitting failure after three reps with 30 lbs. When I went home, I tried to do a pushup - I was stapled to the bottom. Could not do a single one.
This does not happen because I “fried my CNS”. There is no psyche up here; it’s just a pushup. What happened was simply that I ran out of fuel. So I’m going to start eating more carbs. But this time, I’ll reduce the fat so that total calories are conserved and I hopefully don’t gain/lose weight.
As of today I am going from 400/300/165 to 480/300/135 c/p/f. 300 less fat calories, 300 more carbs calories. Should not be an issue as long as I make the most of it with training. Hopefully will allow for stronger lifting, more focused practice, and better pumps.
Wrist still felt dodgy but if I don’t bench today when will I do it? Ended up not being a problem at all, as you will see.
Increased carb intake DEFINITELY helped. 50% more heavy volume on bench press, and I wasn’t psyching myself out of every other barrel mill attempt. Did not notice an increase in ability to just have more total training time though; may be because of extra benching.
Assistance work - blah. For future notice I can only really work at two goals per session. So heavy lifting and bboying, bboying and assistance, or assistance and conditioning.
Practice - Couldn’t do shit. Just to test myself out I knocked out some regular pushups - my max was about 5-6. Slightly confused I looked at my log and saw bboying power, upper body assistance, and of course the heavy work that I have been doing for the past five consecutive days. I also noticed that I have slowly been developing an urge to unload on lower body assistance for the past few days. So:
GMs - 5 sets, 10-20 reps each, 95-145 lbs
Front squats - 5 sets, 10 reps each, ~135 lbs
Leg curls/extensions - 3 sets, 10 reps each, not sure what weight
Gym was closed because of tornado/flood issues. Didn’t stress; today was an off day anyways last week.
Thought I would do a ton of pistol squats but my legs ended up giving out way sooner than I thought they would, I guess yesterday was tougher than I thought.
All I accomplished in the past year was gaining 20 pounds, a few inches here and there, and barely keeping pound for pound strength up to where it was last year.