Mobility Prep
Hatfield Squats to box (18”)
60x11
150x8
240x5
290x3
330x3
380x2
420x1
470x5
Romanian Deadlifts (top start)
45x10
95x5
135x5
185x5
225x3
275x3
315x1
Added Straps
365x16
Pulldown Abs (pulldown station)
50x25
80x20
110x15
Stretching
Comments: Body is feeling beat up. Maybe not as much as I felt on Tuesday. But achy in my joints. Back feeling a little better maybe. Hard to say. It is annoying that it seems to be up and down with the symptoms. Foam rolling, needed for sure. I had meant to ice my knees the night before but I ran out of time. Need that sleep. Obviously I’ll stop if this feels like bad pain. Can be hard to stay motivated when things feel great some days and then you get those symptoms to reemerge and essentially slap you in the face. Eye twitch came back a little bit in the one eye. But got to keep moving forward in some capacity. Warming up at least felt fine. Hatfield squats again. Alternating between these and deadlifts has been good so far. Especially building back. These kinds of squats seem to be the best thing for me right now to still work things heavy. I was trying something different with holding the rack for the hatfield squats. Trying to find something that is easier on the fingers. Lower back was feeling pump today. Not in pain but very tense and tender. Holding lower on the rack like I was doing didn’t allow me to stand up straight or keep my upper back as tight so switched back to the old style. I was a little distracted on that first set and did an extra rep by mistake. Same thing as before with the set work up sets and the plan being a set of five with 470lbs. Little hesitant at times. Last single moved well. Every rep on the 470lbs felt heavy but seemed to move easy on video. Not sure what that means. Weights will be more intense from here on out as no longer sticking to this weight from planned stuff. Romanian deadlifts next. Still big jumps on these. I was a little nervous how these would go with how tight and tense my lower back was, especially after the squatting. 50lbs jump from last time for the top set. Back actually felt good on these. Trying to not use straps until that top set to keep building up the grip from the layoff. As I was going up a bit in weight, I figured that it would make sense to add some support gear earlier on to get used to the breathing. Stuff was feeling heavy but moving well. Top weight felt really darn heavy. Like I’d get 5 reps. Just kept going though. Got five so now aim for eight. Got eight, aim for ten and so on. 14 reps here would equal the projected max for last time but I wanted more. 16 is where I got before my grip gave out. Grip and upper back had had enough. This is good. Would’ve wanted to get to 20 reps or something but still progressing. Not as winded and didn’t feel like the same crap I did on Tuesday’s workout. Smaller jumps this coming month ahead as we got to this point now. Last item for the day was pulldown abs. Same as last time. Same weight, same reps. Which is fine. I was looking forward to this as a way to deload my spine. Didn’t do it as much as last time I think because my back was stiff and tight. Still felt good. Home for food, stretching and recovery work.
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