09.06.2010
Morning workout. Finish at 06:45 (before exam)
No sleep last night. Puked all the evening food in the sink. Cold bread is not good for my stomach, and it insists trowing it away, and alongside with it everything else that sits in it. Had no decent backup plan for this scenario. Cooked some beans and had some tomato sauce over it. Was not the biggest or fullest meal I have had. Tried to sleep, but the body just would not sleep. When the time was 06:00 I decided to get up and do my workout.
Warmups:
50x10,90x5,110x2,130x2
SQ: 160kg 8 x 3
Got a better technique and groove and the end of the workout, speed also catched up, however 160kg have not felt this heavy on my back for a while. It was never a problem to complete all the sets, but 160kg should always be like air. Also the inflammation in the lower part of my legs have not healed, and it did not become better from todays workout. Tomorrow is the last workout of this peaking cycle, and after that I’m supposed to try a new max. It means 4 days of complete rest, before I go for a new maximum attempt on the 5th day. The freezer is full of food, so I have no excuse not to eat well in this resting period. However, I am not convinced that the maxing day will become a success.
Actually at the moment I would not be surprised id I’d actually regress. No matter how it goes, I will use the amount of weight I can lift on the coming maxing day as a starting point for the next program I will run. The best lift this year is 240kg, raw, deep and no belt, and I am not giving up on that 250kg which was my summer goal. Provided I can reach 250kg by the middle of July, it means I have met my summer goal. If I don’t meet it, I will probably not have it before in the autumn, as there is a two week vacation planed for Bosnia in the en of July. Vacation almost always makes me weaker, and if I have the typical luck, I will have some stomach sickness or some other sickness, I’ve had some of these on my last trips.
I am not confident I have kept it up properly nutritionwise the last few weeks, although I have done the program as outlined. Life has really put some obstacles in my way, and I haven’t been able to fully concentrate purely on training and studies as I would like to. Anyway, I am a fighter, and this was just another day on the path to a 300kg raw squat. I am gonna get it, and try as long as it’s humanly possible, that means for at least 13 years more.
I’ve already been at it for 10 years, and I’m not the kid who sits down and throws the toys (squat) in the garbage when there is obstacles in the path. I’ve already suffered a serious back injury, recovered from it, and became stronger than ever, so there’s nothing that can stop me, not even if I get another injury, or a sickness, and get a lot weaker, I will always fight back, I’m the turtle who never gives up. So I am not content at the very moment, but this can change in a short while, and there can be some positive moments again.
The last volume cycle was very positive, and I ended up doing 9 reps at 190kg in the paused deep squat with no belt. Let the fight continue, because I’m not squatting, I AM SQUAT! (haha, double meaning of that, but I think you get it!)
