Bad Workout - Ugh!

[bblazer]

Don't you just hate bad workout days? The kind that makes you feel like you have regressed? Now I have to wait another week to try and vindicate myself.

It was deadlift day today, and gravity must have been on overdrive, and I couldn't even break the bar when it was loaded 80 lbs less than my typical working sets.

So I go through the mental checklist:

Nutrition - check
Sleep - check
Form - always needs work - never perfect, but should be OK

That leaves a mental fuck, or I have turned into a pussy in the last 48 hours, and no one told me about it.

I did have an unexplained 6 lb weight loss since Friday though, so maybe my eating hasn't been right somehow.

Who the fuck knows.

Vent over.

B-

 

[Big_BK]

 

[RottenWillow]

Don't you just hate bad workout days? The kind that makes you feel like you have regressed? Now I have to wait another week to try and vindicate myself.

Totally. Both the suck of the workout itself and the having to wait a full week to vindicate (the perfect word for it!) yourself is very irritating.

 

[joe d]

i havent had a bad w/o since i started this aproach over a year ago.

i get myself completely focused and in the zone so to speak before i even touch the weights. if im not where i need to be for a good w/o i go home. i will either try later that day or pick up the plans the next day.

i keep my diet and rest focus in the same light. i lay down if im tired. i eat if there is room for food. i dont exert myself unless its to build muscle. my schedule doesnt involve time, its just a list of things to do when im ready to do them.

this plan has improved my development drastically. the key is to know yourself verry well.

 

[ryansdad]

It happens.

 

[bblazer]

i havent had a bad w/o since i started this aproach over a year ago.

i get myself completely focused and in the zone so to speak before i even touch the weights. if im not where i need to be for a good w/o i go home. i will either try later that day or pick up the plans the next day.

i keep my diet and rest focus in the same light. i lay down if im tired. i eat if there is room for food. i dont exert myself unless its to build muscle. my schedule doesnt involve time, its just a list of things to do when im ready to do them.

this plan has improved my development drastically. the key is to know yourself verry well.

I like that plan a lot.

One of the guys I train with says he will only attempt any exercise/weight twice in one session. For example if there is 700 on the bar, and his max DL is 855 if he can't pull the 700 after 2 attempts, he is done DLing that day. Something is obviously not right, and it is futile and potentially dangerous to force the issue.

B-

 

[Aslin]

if i'm not feeling it i'd do 1 warm up set and two really heavy sets and get the hell outta there.

 

[joe d]

if i'm not feeling it i'd do 1 warm up set and two really heavy sets and get the hell outta there.

that sounds like injuries waiting to happen to me.

 

[bblazer]

that sounds like injuries waiting to happen to me.

+1

From experience.

B-

 

[bblazer]

Today was my back workout. Much better than yesterday, but things are still not where they have been. I am beginning to wonder 2 things.

a) That I may be getting sick. I have no real symptoms of anything other than fatigue, but who knows?

b) That I may need a change in my TRT dosing. I'm currently on 100 mg Test C/week, and in the past there have been times that for one reason or another that even the Mayo docs don't seem to understand, I "eat up" or metabolize the test faster than normal. Then they up my dose 50 mg/week and 6-12 weeks later everything goes back to normal and we lower it back to 100 mg. This happens about 2x/year. This could be one of those times.

B-

 

[the_alcatraz]

I like that plan a lot.

One of the guys I train with says he will only attempt any exercise/weight twice in one session. For example if there is 700 on the bar, and his max DL is 855 if he can't pull the 700 after 2 attempts, he is done DLing that day. Something is obviously not right, and it is futile and potentially dangerous to force the issue.

B-

Sounds like your friend knows what he's talking about.

 

[bblazer]

Sounds like your friend knows what he's talking about.

All that and a plate of grits.

B-

 

[Tblock1]

If I'm going to have a bad workout, it usually happens with deadlifts. The other day when my normal max is 335x2 I couldn't even budge 325! Most of it is mental though, I'm so damn worried about my lower back.

 

[bblazer]

If I'm going to have a bad workout, it usually happens with deadlifts. The other day when my normal max is 335x2 I couldn't even budge 325! Most of it is mental though, I'm so damn worried about my lower back.

I used to worry about injuries like that too.

Then I remembered that God created Dr.'s and surgeons to fix anything I broke, and I pulled the fucking weight off the floor.

B-

 

[scotty too hotty]

I get like that sometimes when I'm stressed out from work or school. It doesn't happen very often, but you just have to keep moving. You've been powerlifting and posting on EF forever, so I know you don't quit! If you want to stay positive, realize that your "bad" workouts are better than uncommitted people's personal records! The difference between us and the rest of society is that we show up whether we feel like it or not. Like everything else, if you get your ass there enough, your mind will eventually follow. Now get back in and own that shit BRO!!

 

[cjangelo]

Now I also know that you're supposed to 'listen to your body', but my brain says 'don't be a pussy, and just lift the fucking weights', and that's just what I do.

Yes sir. You already said it.

But if you have a hormonal issue, deal with it, then pull the fucking weight off the floor.

Good luck.