Just a lot of boob work today, I think this is the kind of session I need to be doing more often. Little bit of everything. Been a while since I been on the decline.
Deads/Legs day. Bumped everything up a little, which was fine. Also went after 200 as a joker, which was NOT fine. I mean, it went up, but it was grindy as hell. Body not ready for that weight yet.
After last weekās squat disaster I was hoping for a nice little rebound. Hips feeling cranky and elbows more irritated than they have been lately, but at least I was a tired little bitch today. They stars even aligned for a rare double BW squat, so that is cool.
Titties. Not enough time today to throw in some flat benching of any kind, so I just dug out my old TM scheme for the decline, which proved a good and challenging idea. Last three sets were tough.
My usual Saturday pulling day with the bonus leg work. Stayed away from going max/max and just tripled the topset. This seems a smarter approach for me in general. Topset could probably be bumped up a little, just being careful.
Been a rough week. Sick as hell for the past 5 days, barely eating and lost a couple kilo. Still doing poorly but had to go in and do something. So did some overhead stuff. First time in a long time doing standing overhead, figured since it was going to be a shit day, I would do something that I knew should be shit anyway. Could only barely hit 90, what a sorry little bitch.
Wake up weight around 82, which is too low. Feel okay, but very low energy. Appetite only just starting to return. Just did a very basic and easy pulling day to get things moving.
Still operating well below optimal strength, energy and body weight as a result of this flu thing that still lingers a bit. Obviously squatting was going to be a disappointment (think I smashed 170 last time), so I just made sure that I put in some work today. This was all pretty tough work, even if the numbers donāt reflect it. Was actually supersetting the MUs at the end of the leg pressing, and that clobbered me pretty good.
Feeling pretty good, but definitely have a week or so to go before I am back to 100 percent. Numbers here are technically fine, but everything was harder than it should have been. Still missing about a kilo of bodyweight.
Still not quite there. Didnāt help that I slept kinda poor last night (although thankfully that is a less common problem than it used to be). Whatever, the numbers were decent even if I got tired quickly. Trying to slowly increase the difficulty on the backoff sets (these should only be at about 130) for deadlifts, donāt really care much where the topset is.
Just about feeling back to normal. I am have also been mixing back in the standing OHP, and will continue to do so as long as the elbows donāt protest too much. So far, so good. The results are not stellar, but nor can I expect them to be, all things considered. I am down about two belt sizes from peak strength.
Of course, starting out with heavy crap like this makes everything after it suffer a little bit. All in all, was good work, no complaints.
Bit of an eye opener today. Feeling pretty good for the first time in a couple weeks, but it is also clear that the dropped weight has made an impact on my squat. Everything felt heavy as shit, and the rep at 160 was terrible. Not sure if I am okay with this situation or not, but I am not going to suddenly try to put 2 kilo back on, because this bodyweight is otherwise fine for me. Will give it a couple of weeks to see if I can get some of it back for free.