Thanks buddy, peak weights definitely are fun.
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Leg gainz = ripped pants … Quality
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1 paused push jerks
4 x 3 @ 105 kg
2 romanian deadlifts
3 x 8 @ 147,5 kg
3 yoke
5 x 9m @ 275 kg
4 hanging leg raises (straight)
3 x 8
Notes:
- press still easy peasy.
- deads felt better than last week. Muscle mind connection was improved. Maybe the belt helped (threw that on for all 3 sets today).
- good end to the heaviest week yet. Solid session.
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Quick recap for anyone playing along at home:
- Netherlands were pretty cool
- I was way ahead of myself when I said I’m feeling better. Should have trusted the scepticism I guess. After every high be it as short as it may, there is an even deeper low it seems. Makes you become afraid of the highs too.
- I have big blisters under both me feet.
1 push jerks
3 x 3 @ 110 kg
2 deadlifts
4 x 2 @ 140 kg
3 box jumps
5 x 3
4 lat pull down
3 x 10 light
Notes:
- tried my best to mimic the heavier weights and staying true to my setup this deload. Kinda worked I guess but at the end of the day, it is a deload and that always feels sluggish for me. But looks cool to move weights this fast, lol.
- going to play tennis this afternoon (double’s club chanpionships) which is going to be fun woth those blisters. Not to mention hiking in Bavaria in a few days. Tomorrow I’ll get a vaccination shot forst thing in the morning, so it looks like I’ll havr to take my second deload session on the road and do that in Munich.
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We won the double 6:1 6:0. I won a single against my double partner 6:1 3:6 6:2. Pretty long day on the tennis court. Weather was shit.
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Ez win
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Felt really shit going into this. All weights felt much heavier than they should have. I think some of that was the different gym. I don’t like training in random commercial gyms. Apart from the mental side, I feel like I might be coming down with something. That would be like the worst timing for multiple reasons. But we’ll see. Not unlikely that it’s just in my head after all.
1 push jerks
3 x 1 @ 110 kg
2 front squats
3 x 3 @ 110 kg
3 pendlay rows
3 x 8 @ 70 kg
Somehow my left leg was really crampy-hurty after those front squats.
Deload done. I return Sunday afternoon from Munich and start my hospital internship on Monday morning… very early. The hours are gonna be an adjustment at first. I don’t know yet if my first session is going to be on Monday or Tuesday. I’ll make that a game day call.
Under the assumption I’m not coming down with something for real, I still have high hopes for the max out next week. Once I get everything out of the way and I’m actually there, the task at hand, I’ll go for fucking broke and I will get those PRs!
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Rooting for you fella
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Cramps are nature’s way of telling you to stop the dumb front squats.
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@dagill2 thanks buddy, I appreciate it.
@Cyrrex tell that to coach! He makes me do them and he’s kinda big and strong and I’m scared.
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Eat lots over the weekend and I’m sure you’ll be right.
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I’m in Bavaria… shouldn’t be too hard to get those calories in, haha.
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Two pork knuckles, 1/2 kilo of sausage, a generous hunk of meatloaf for me please 
- cheese and butter on the side would be greatly appreciated 
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Just for you, @anna_5588, the forst food pic of this log:
An entire “Schweinshaxn” which is Bavarian for pigs thigh in my favorite Munich restaurant.
@simo74 that’s usually 2+ kg of meat, that’s gonna do the trick, right?
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Okay lightning ruined that one. I’m not a proper milenial and not skilled in taking photographs of my food, haha
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Don’t allow this to turn into a thought pattern if you can help it. I know, it’s alluring to end up with that mindset but for all the shit I give the stoics one thing they got right is just treating the present as transient.
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it’s enough to make me jealous
IDK what it’s called, but I also had a “pickled” version that was just as good
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I’m trying to buddy but lately shit is going south quite radically. I’m back to “day by day” and in doubt “hour by hour”. I try to not let it dictate my life by forcing myself to go through with all the activities I planned to do (like the travelling) but as I’ve always been honest here: The anxiety is currently crippeling and the depression is eating me up.
I think a lot of that is caused by the upcoming and in progress life changes I’m undergoing. So my theory is if I can just brute force myself through them anyway, it might ease off my symptoms.
I’m trying to get back into therapy (why it should help this time, I can’t answer) for once I moved towns. But as you might know, waiting times are ridiculous.
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I know where you are bro. I just try and think that maybe one day a high turns into a new normal. And waiting times are ridiculous. And the manner in which the care is distributed. An hour here and there. Its like trying to steer a ship by pushing it from the outside every four weeks. Meanwhile though it’ll be on the trajectory it is. A beer with a friend takes more time than a doctor’s appointment and that doesn’t really make sense. Run the tests good and proper, figure out a good line of treatment rather than going off of heuristics after a patient evidently doesn’t fit into the mold of confirming a diagnosis through treatment House-style.
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This! The experience I had when I went to the mental health clinic at the start of the year was incredibly disappointing because if you didn’t fit directly into their model of treatment, you could go fuck yourself. No amount of critique and assurance that I needed a different kind of help could get them to alter the program towards my individual needs.
That’s a nice thought. Although one that’s difficult to hold on to. I mean I haven’t given up on it evidently, otherwise I I wouldn’t be typing anymore… but I lose it from time to time