This doesn’t really sound right to me. What makes it so bad, the fact that you worked up to 90%-ish on all 3 lifts? Volume is real low right now too.
To me it seems like when you are peaking is the time that you definitely don’t want to feel beat up. I remember Sheiko saying something like “it is better to go into a meet undertrained rather than overtrained”, like you should feel good and well recovered.
Not Mark but as I interpret it he makes his heavy singles prior to the meet very fatigued wich is when you need to deload, then very little work two weeks out no work and feeling very fresh on the week leading up to the meet.
We go into peak fatigued, and deliberately push ourselves into an overreaching state. Then he week before the meet we rest, so on meet day we feel pretty much invincible.
30 seconds each side of
Couch stretch
Pigeon stretch
Supine twist
Hurdler stretch
10 bracing hip thrusts
Squat
Worked up to 3x1x474 lbs, Phantoms at six revolutions
Something tweaked a bit in my left groin on 275 lbs, but I calmed down as I went on. Just something to do with a tight hamstring I wasn’t aware of, I think
I’ve had this exact thought so often. About Mark specifically but also Pwn/flip’s comps and many others. It’s definitely one of the loveliest aspects of the internet, which can so often be awful.
You ever do that Copenhagen adduction thing? I used to have issues with my adductors and I started doing a bit of that before squatting and deadlifting, seems to have taken care of it. I just do one set of 10 reps on each side using a chair nowadays.
I’m reducing the extra workouts to the absolute bare minimum this week in line with the peak tapering off. Next week bar some air squats to stay loose and maybe a few pull aparts to keep my shoulders loose I won’t do anything.
Work is also reasonably quiet at the moment so I shouldn’t have to do much overtime. That could change next week, of course, but it seems like we’re keeping well on top of things right now.