Friday, June 12, 2020

June 11, 2020 – Week 4, Day 2

5 Minute Walk (.40 miles)

Mobility Prep

Goblet Squats to Box (15”)
bwx25
kettlebell
15x20
dumbbell
40x12
40x12
40x12

16” Rack Pulls
45x15
135x5
225x3
315x2
365x2
405x2
Added Straps
455x2
495x2
545x2
585x2
635x2 PR+10lbs

Ab Roller
bwx18

Side Plank Raises
bwx12/12

Stretching

Comments: Definitely feeling this week in my bones. I could feel just fatigue in my forearms the day before. Trying to keep what hurts healthy. I have not been feeling this week haha. Not to say there hasn’t been good things for me. I did feel a little worn going into this training day. I had to alter things slightly. See, neighbor two houses down was hosting a taco truck for 2hrs. I thought nothing of it seeing it on the neighborhood bulletin on my walks. Nobody really does anything here besides the neighborhood wide garage sales. Wrong. Had to be like 50 people lined up and there were people parking on both sides of the street. I’ve been away from large groups of people for several months now and it reminded me how much I dislike them haha. Didn’t want to walk through that so I took a different route for my warm-up and it ended up being a bit longer. But that is ok. This is the second deadlift and squat day that I’ve not worn the compression socks. I think one that they were making my legs tight on the warm-up walk and two, I’m not pulling where my shins are covered to keep from really rubbing my legs anyways. First exercise was squatting to a box. As has been the case. Really light for higher reps. Seem to be doing my some good and keeping me fresh for pulls. It was too hot to keep the garage closed but with people outside (a lot of youngsters) I had to be ready to skip the song on my iPod if it was maybe not ok. Only had one oops with that haha (that darn Eminem). Next up being rack pulls again. Doubles this time with the same plan. But I probably went too heavy. Safe, moderate, comfortable. I have a hard time with these terms it seems. Especially when I get comparison. Little bit more on the sheet was reflected by 50lbs more. I figured I could do that. Had to do that. Same setup with using the saw horses and the Mouser block. I do intend to get the rack setup this weekend. Probably Sunday. I wasn’t feeling nearly as sweaty and glistening as I was two weeks ago wearing the red booty shorts haha. But still, I told myself not to go above 405lbs without straps. 405lbs would be enough and I had farmer’s walk with max distance again so save it for the time when grip is going to matter. It is probably a good idea that I didn’t hold off with the straps as the first set with straps felt alien. Not sure what that was about. I was trying to not hype myself up on these as I knew that if I wanted to hit my goal for the session, I’d need to hype that lift up and if I needed to hype up to get these lifts leading up to it, then I wasn’t going to be getting it. Starting to realize that I really can’t go much above 800lbs on this bar with the garage weights but I’m not at that level yet and I got a lot of time before that time comes. If it ever does. My last set before going big was the same weight I dd the triple with last time. I had indicated that it was a two rep PR and it was. It was for me coming back from injury as of 2016. However, it was not a lifetime PR. The next weight would be. 585lbs didn’t feel as hot as last time but I was hyping myself up for that one. Anything over 585lbs without a suit on any of the lifts would be the most I’ve done in training raw at this point from after the 2016 injury. But I remember lifting 625lbs for a double on this lift almost 8yrs ago to the date. I didn’t want to just have background music playing. I wanted something that made me feel something. I find that it gives me just a little more extra when I have something with the music. I had success with a love song last week on axle rdls so lets give that another shot with something like that. Got set and ready. I could feel like I was about to puke. I hadn’t felt like that all this workout. I would be so mad if I missed this lift. First one was hard but it went up fast. I knew the double was going to be troublesome. I didn’t want to use the rebound and bounce. Needed these to be dead stop reps to count. To mean it. Much slower. Legs got shaky. But no hitching on this. My grip went in the right hand but holding on with finger tips. I know I can do more than this from the floor with a suit with how this felt. I got a year to try and replicate this from the floor to feel like I’m in the 700lbs range raw. But this was a near maximum effort for a double. Hopefully I’m not burning things too fast here. Progress has been very good the last four weeks on my pulls. Makeshift ab roller using the barbell and 45lbs plates. Same as last time but advised to do 1-3 more reps. My one leg wasn’t cramping up this time. I feel like these are difficult but I can keep doing them. But I’m going to save the reps for next time and just try and be smart with some of the things I do. Sore abdominals make other stuff difficult haha. Side plank raises followed that. Easier I think this time. The disparity between the rigidity and stability was almost equal compared to last time where one side was difficult and the other was super easy. At leftovers and then stretched before cleaning up. I think I can do big things if I stay healthy.


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