5/28
Today was the day I walked into the locker room and the guy blow drying his nuts decided to say hello. Gotta admit it threw me.
8x Barbell complex: 45, 45, 65, 85, 95, 95, 115, 115
DLS: 135(3), 135(3), 225(3), 225(3), 285(3), 285(3) 305(1), 325(1) 345(1), 365(1), 385(1)
Standing DP Press: 5x10 @45
Swimmers DB Curls: 5x10 35, 40, 45(3)
27 Neutral Grip Chins
Random Thoughts in No Particular Order:
Given where I was a year ago, I’m doing real well physically but I haven’t been consistently satisfied with my training. Part of it is trying to do too many different things (keep the aerobic base and develop general overall strength) but I’m also hitting the wall on my noobie gains. Next block will probably be based on a Bill Star routine. There’s a natural break coming up in my schedule next week so I’ll sort more of it out then.
I have a chance to do some pretty cool adventure racing this fall so the rest of the year in the gym will look like a strength phase through the mid/end of July, a maintenence (maybe bodybuildingish!!) through beginning of September, and then picking up a muscular endurance/prehab phase in the mid/end of November. Means I ought to keep my weight under 170 for now.
I think everything after 305 was a PR for me. Or more correctly, I’m just finding my level with the lift.
There’s a weird procieption thing going on with my DL. Bar feels real heavy in my hands but comfortable through my p-chain. Not sure if it means anything.
Stomping helps.
Also noticed that 285-305 felt tougher than some of the heavier lifts. Like fatigue has accumulated around certain exertion levels. I’ve seen the same thing in running but there’s a different feel to it.
Thanks to the folks who mentioned Prilepin in another thread. I needed to be reminded of a good way to gear my training.
As much as I learned in the last two years about mobility/prehab stuff, I cant shake the feeling my swim coach in college had most of this worked out in 1987.
Hockey trainers are good people to talk to about hips.
Its OK for me to run the day after DL’ing. Not so much after squatting. After squatting I need to do a good mobility workout. The sooner the better.
As much as I can see how a good stregnth program can take care of a lot of physical problems, none of this would have happened for me without a good mobilty/muscular endurance phase.
And of anybody got through this wall of text, thanks for reading.