This was fridays workout, I have a meet on the 20th, it will be my first meet ever so I am excited, unfortunately it is a push-pull, but i am ashamed of my squat right now anyways so its all gravy.
im doing 5-3-1 and i like its simplicity, and i like jim wendler's idea of just busting your ass for an hour instead of mediocrity for 2 hours. and doing workouts that hit the most muscles at one time, like dips for instance. however I did not think before i started, i just finished my second 4 week cycle. and i was 2 weeks shy of my meet, so this past week was just a bust your ass, try to work on form week, and next week i will be doing cool down, lots of stretching, and foam rolling, and try to get some sleep, eat alot etc.
i do however think that i was at the gym for like an hour and a half today due to some added junk but whatever, it felt good being it was a friday night round 7-8pm on post and NOBODY was in the gym, i was squatting while they were cleaning the place. makes me know that one day this will pay off, record breaking or not, work, life, business etc. perseverance pays off. thats probably one of the coolest things about powerlifting.
only filmed my squats today.
let me just say im ashamed of these squats, ive gone way lower doing atleast 5 reps with more weight, and it was ass to grass, i felt like i was going low this day, must of just been tightness in my legs. but i think im going to start going ass to grass and do pause reps now, I dont see any real downside to this.
training log:
5x5 squat worked to 245lb. no energy, feel like doo doo, and 8 hour death by powerpoint briefing today, (no excuses tho)
i have been feeling like a punk under the bar, and I am tired of being intimidated by the weight on my squats, so i loaded the bar up and did "pin squats" with the pin set maybe 3-4 inches below my fully standing position so i can just feel the weight on my back. I have no idea if this works but hey, mental power is important???
315x1
405x1
495x1
315x7ish
Front squat 5 sets
145x10
GHR 3 sets 15 reps. really tried to just squeeze every muscle i could, and glutes, and drive those toes into the foot plate, calves were feeling super cramped, its sunday and walking sucks, so i did something right. also - hammer strength GHR's are terrible, I had pleasure/pain of using an elitefts style GHR with a pad that doesnt rotate, and its alot nicer to use / jacks you up/
leg curl 1 set.
30 reps about 90 lbs. this was a weird and old plate loaded leg curl, but got it done.
the guy from http://www.lift-run-bang.com/ did this and I thought it was a good idea, and I have been using it this week, at the end of my workout this week I have been attempting to flood the muscles with blood, so I will just do a gnarly high rep exercise to do that, i gotta read more into this, but it also helps me feel like i achieved some good work when im limping out of the gym
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