Hmm⦠had not considered that at all. Inside my head pressing movements is other muscles than pulling movements, so not affected by doing them day after. But now that you mention it, you have to brace hips and ass as well for press - and that is definitely affected by deads. Thanks for the input.
Overhead press: (C2W3 +BBB)
8 x 5
18 x 5
28 x 5
55 x 5
58 x 3
62 x 4
38 x 10
38 x 10
38 x 10
38 x 10
38 x 10
Not really satisfied with the amrap set. I know that 5/3/1 builds the bottom rather than the top, but still, had expected at least a couple more. But tbh, I am slightly hungover today, possibly beer & whisky is not the greatest preparation for PRs.
Barbell rows.
38 x 10
78 x 8
78 x 8
78 x 8
78 x 8
78 x 16
Back to something more like normal times. With proper warm-up and all. Sigh.
Warm-up:
Hip/leg/back stretch stuff, jumping jacks, air squats, external rotator set .
Bulgarian Split squat
BW x 10,
17 x 10
17 x 10
Deadlift (C2W3)
58 x 5
78 x 5
98 x 5
117 x 5
124 x 3
131 x 10
Band leg triple ss exercise:
Sideways extension for hip: 10 15, 10
45 degree back extension for hip & glute: 10, 15, 10
Standing quad extension: 15, 15, 10
SS with Deadlift: 58kg x 10, 10, 10
Finishers:
Hang leg raises: 10
Dumbbell hammer curl: 8x 30,25
This time around I struggled even more than first time around on the amrap set. But I felt weak and not fully recovered, so not really surprised.
Barbell rows:
Warm-up
62 x 5
Strength set
98 x 5,5,3,3,3,3
Lateral dumbbell raise
8.4 x 12,15,15,15
SS Standing alternate band pull
10,12,12
Playing around a little with the built in auto-formating options and the organisation of set values. Not sure if this the way, but perhaps a bit more tidy than previously?
Sit-ups: 15, 25, 35
Reverse hypers: 30,30
Corkscrews: 10 es
Sideplank w/twist: 30 es
Band corkscrew: 25 es
Ab wheel rollout: 15
Band sledgehammer: 25 es
Band good mornings: 30, 30
Band abb pulldowns: 20
As usual done as SS of an abb, oblique & back set in sequence.
Plate swings: 10kg x 20
Not sure I am engaging my hips enough, this takes some practice I think.
RDL
58 x 5
78 x 5
100 x 8
100 x 8
100 x 8
100 x 10
100 x 12
It has been a while since I had a proper core day, it was good to get to it again.
I have pondering how to approach deload for while.
On one hand, I am not running a full 5/3/1 program and are really not training all that hard.
On the other hand, deloads are there for a reason and I want to follow the program on the exercises I apply it to. And it will probably be good for this ageing carcass.
So I have decided to do it like this:
Deload every two cycles
For 5/3/1 exercises follow the prescribed percentages.
For everything else, do roughly half of the normal effort, whether that is in weight, number of reps or both.
And then use this as an opportunity to focus on honing good form for my lifts.
Weighed myself yesterday and was very please to see that I have lost 2 kilos since Christmas. Although I am in the t-ransformation, I am not dieting as such - but I do aim to loose weight slowly and steadily by eating sensibly and getting my workouts done.
Am definitely not eating enough to build a lot of muscle, but that is as it is - at this point I can do better aesthetically by loosing some weight and get more definition of whatās already there, than to try to build more.