January 14, 2020 – Week 7, Day 1

5 Minutes Precor AMT

Mobility Prep

Axle Strict Presses + Push Presses

PVC

22x10+5

Thick Bar

42x3+2

62x3+2

Axle

82x3+2

102x3+2

122x3+2

142x3+2

162x3+2

182x3+2

202x3+2

Axle Push Presses

202x17

Pulldowns

80x10

120x8

160x5

200x5

240x25 PR+10lbs

Precor Pec Flyes

115x10

155x8

195x5

235x28 PR+10lbs

Cybex Eagle NX Rows

140x10

180x8

220x5

260x27 PR+2 reps

Stretching

Comments: Feels like things caught up with me. Lower back stiff and sore. Hamstrings tight. Maybe moving fast is harder on the body with yoke. My legs felt stiff and heavy doing walks. Especially Monday night. Making me feel a little cautious about things. Really hope it calms down. Nowhere near as bad as it has been. So less than before and that before was less than the before was so yeah. I guess not terribly worried but a little cautious. Stay humble. Warming up felt pretty good. I did end up doing a fair amount of foam rolling. I wasn’t feeling that energetic today. I had been feeling warm at work. As appears to be the theme for now, doing the strict and push press clusters. Same as last time, just working up to 20lbs more for the top sets. Knees were aching. My strict pressing felt okay but my push pressing felt off. Shoulders felt heavy too. Ended up putting on a belt for the top set as I didn’t want to overstress my back in the event it was too darn heavy. I hit the side of the rack walking out the weight. I was sweating quite a bit from my forehead after that set and I still had the push press for max reps. I wasn’t feeling this. I was tempted to stop the workout as my energy felt so low. I was scared I’d fail at like five reps with how wonky I was feeling. I seemed to get things okay enough. The 16^th rep was the toughest and I had a much easier 17^th rep but it came down in a way that made me feel off balance and I just racked it rather than try and go for a sloppy rep. I had hoped to get more here but it was enough that the projected max is still increasing. I was beat though and I had no idea how I was going to finish the workout. The rest of the workout had 10lbs added to the top sets for each exercise but the weight jumps were bigger to cut down on fatigue. Pulldowns, I was trying to move fast here so the working up weights, I pretty much just did the reps and then adjusted the weight and right on to the next set. Took a longer rest then for the top set. This seems to be the best way to go with these. Especially with the bigger jumps so that I don’t really get cool. Chalking up here. These were tough. I really wanted to not get below 24 reps on these. My arms and back were tired. They felt engorged (especially the right side) after that set. Next was flyes. Had to wait for this again. Which is fine as it gave time for the pump to leave my arms from pulldowns. Little hesitant at the start to see if my pecs were good and then it was off to the races. Matched the PR with 10lbs more. Didn’t require a stop like last time either. I imagine next time around will be the whole stack and I feel like I could hit another PR there. Got onto the row machine no problems this week. These felt heavy today. Not surprising after the sandbag rows Saturday and the heavy pulldowns for high reps beforehand. Chalked up the grip for that top set. Eeked out another rep PR here. Hopefully I feel better tomorrow after getting some good food, stretching, recovery work and sleep.