don’t think I’ve posted since thursday
Back
deadlifts: 210 x barely 1 (PR, woo)
tbars - didn’t work out, just can’t do it unless I have one end of the bar forced into a corner (tried the -|—|||- method), and the problem with that is needing to chuck plates on the fixed end to stop it flying up (plus there aren’t any available corners in my current gym)… man, I love t-bars as well, sucks I can’t do them anymore
neutral grip puilups - eh, they’re ok I guess
dolphin rows - definitely an awesome movement
CG supinated pulldowns - #18x6, +1 rep from last week, just not good enough… but I did them as my last lat exercise and they worked a lot better pre-exhausted with the dolphin rows
oh yeah, shoulders training was crap the other day, so I did all the different raise variations (using cables) at the end of my back session, usually I just do rear delts
Chest + Bis
decline bench: 90 x 8 - seemed to get my shoulder a little weird for the first few warmup sets (even with just the bar!), but the last 2 were okay (well second to last, top set felt a bit off too)
incline machine thing: just warming up, sort of, while I wait for a free bench
incline DB bench: 42.5 x 3 - really don’t know WTF is going on here, I attempted to get these into position twice and couldn’t do it, but a couple weeks ago I could get them up absolutely no problem and I can get the 40s up for shoulder pressing without a problem too, I seriously have no idea with this…
flyes: 32.5 x 5 - I’ve done better, not happy with this either. I guess it was just a bad day since the decline should have also been a lot higher.
ez curls: 60 x 4/5/3 - I don’t know. but it wasn’t particularly good (though my best yet) and it certainly wasn’t better than last week by much.
reverse ez curls, hammer curls - definitely gonna start doing less regular curls and go back to doing more forearm type curls, 2 reasons, my wrists have started giving me aggro again and pronated/neutral grips obviously don’t cause that, and secondly my forearms haven’t grown in ages… this past month I’ve gained about .5" on my upper arm, and nothing on my forearm! I know I haven’t changed bodyweight which might contribute to it, but I think bringing them up and focusing on some reverse curling like I used to will help me reach the next stage with my upper arm too
and finally, today: Legs
SLDL: 140 x 6-8 - wasn’t really counting reps, but I think I got 8. anyway, changed how I do these, I now stand on a block of wood so I can go really low which is how I saw Kai Greene doing them in a video earlier, I think it’s better, simply because when I’m doing SLDLs with my near deadlift max I have to focus so much on using my hamstrings whilst straining under heavy weight (at least to me :(), and it’s just a lot of strain. We’ll see though, SLDLs are probably my best movement for bringing up the deadlift, so going real heavy on those is pretty important if I want a bigger deadlift and I usually get awesome DOMs in my hamstrings if I do SLDLs (my old way), so clearly they used to work, just a matter of seeing if they work better this way.
Squat Machine thing - fucking hate this, the second I go too low, BAM all my power is gone and that’s it. I think I need to work on ankle mobility/flexibility a bit more so I can put the feet a bit lower on the pad without getting knee pains
single leg curls, leg extensions - good good
tomorrow is shoulders, I’m still completely undecided as to what to do, do I go and do push presses again, and possibly injure myself like last time and do pathetic weight, or go back to DBs and possibly stall/regress. I really can’t decide if last week was just a bad week overall, well, back was actually pretty ok, but shoulders and chest last week SUCKED.
