25.06.2010
Day 11/23
Last night I did not want to make another meal before bed-time, so I just ate icre-cream and drank a lot of milk. When I woke up today, I told myself that I felt fine, then I just wanted to relax on bed for a few minutes, and it made me sleep another 2-3 hours.. Finally I made it down to the basement, and boy were it hard today. I’ve had worse workouts, but actually, after the 3rd set today I put out the puke bucket, just in case. It might seem easy on film, but the trained eye will see that the reps are less explosive today, and in general the workout also felt rather heavy. It certainly was not comfortable, esp. not the last two sets. Today I really did not feel like I wanted to squat, but I am happy that I did it anyway! Mind over matter! This week will be interesting, as there’s a couple more heavy squat sessions coming up, and next week it is even worse! But as I’ve said before, I am not giving up, and I will keep pushing it till it is physically not possible to push it more. Altough legs were tired from squatting today, and it was aching most of the evening, I’ve felt worse previously. I am yet to come to the point in this program were just walking for a walk in the woods feel like agony for every step taken, because I am so worn down by the squats. And the daily walks I do need, sometimes before training, sometimes after training. Today was the first day on the program were I felt that a pre-walk might interfer with the training, so I avoided it. This caused our dog to go all ballistic because it was so full with energy, so it (believe it or not) chewed up my VISA card pretty good, and that through the fabric in my pant. The pants were on the floor so it was my fault.
Already from the first rep in the first set, I knew this was going to become a tough day. It felt heavy, but still I feel there is some good strength beneath the surface, so it will be interesting to see how this program pans out in the end. I am certainly putting in the effort, at least trainingwise, nutritionwise can always become better, but I’ve gained some weight on this program, and that’s a good sign. It might just be from water retention from creatine, but I certainly hope there’s some added muscle as well! It would be odd if that was not the case, as squatting everyday pretty much shake things up quite seriously.
Ah, and I forgot to tell that this morning I had a pretty bad ache in my left pec. It was so bad I could not move the arm in certain directions, and apply no pressure on it. Luckily it did not affect the squat-training much, but I did widen my grip, and I also put on possibly a bit more weight than I should have on the bar, as my 10kg-plates are overweight, and I still put on all of them today, which adds up to about 42-43kg, and not 40kg. Usually I put on an extra 7.5kg to offset the fact that the weights are in general too light, I also did this today, but that also made the total weight perhaps 2-3kg more than I intended it to be, but I always think it is better to have a little bit more weight on the bar than less. So that may also have contributed to this becoming a heavy session.
The session went like this:
SQ: 50x10,90x5,110x2,130x2,150x1,170x5x7
I always tought the day of sevens were one of the toughest on the smolov base meso cycle, and it proved itself yet again to be a tough day. Next week there will be even 5kg more on the bar in the equal session, and frankly, I am sure that I will make it, but it will not necessarily become easy!
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz_o93713Po
