Week 5 update:
Good evening EF brothers,
Started off this week strong and motivation high. My workload was pretty intense this week; lots of heavy overhead work combined with some shoulder issues I’ve been experiencing; this all impacted my training as a whole this week. As a result, I’ll be having a deload week for week 6 to try and combat some of this accumulated fatigue and give my shoulder issues some time to fix themselves.
Midweek, the wife and I travelled to the big smoke for a few days. I brang my meals with me, and stuck to them, with the addition of a couple burgers and a light night Pancake Parlour visit.
My upper body workout was done at the hotel gym, so numbers wont correlate with previous entries. Like I mentioned though, my shoulder issues and fatigue really fucked with my workout, so I suffered through.
Tried to get my last leg workout in today, but unfortunately was at the doctors all day with my 1 year old.
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Current weight:
- 81kg fasted (weighed on Thursday morning)
Daily calories/macros:
Supplements:
- supplements have mostly remained the same; L-Carnitine has gone back to 400mg. The pip from 600mg was debilitating.
PEDs:
Blood pressure:
- Blood pressure has dropped back down to sitting around 118/67.
Hydration:
Workouts:
17.4K steps
600mg L-Carnitine PW
10mg Cialis PW
3.7km walk, with wife and kids PW
1lt coconut water
Push
Pec Deck
18 reps @ 70kg
14 reps @ 75kg
12 reps @ 75kg
Incline D/Bell
15 reps @ 30kg
14 reps @ 30kg
14 reps @ 30kg
Cable Fly
12 reps @ 30kg
12 reps @ 30kg
12 reps @ 30kg
Upright Row
16 reps @ 27.5kg
14 reps @ 27.5kg
14 reps @ 27.5kg
Single Arm D/Bell Lateral Raises
14 reps @ 15kg
14 reps @ 15kg
12 reps @ 15kg
Rear Tricep Ext.
16 reps @ 30kg *
16 reps @ 30kg *
16 reps @ 30kg *
*weight dropped back due to fatigue.
Rope Pushdowns
18 reps @ 50kg
16 reps @ 50kg
15 reps @ 50kg
600mg L-Carnitine PW
10mg Cialis PW
20mins treadmill PW
1lt coconut water
Legs
Seated Leg Raises
12 reps @ 50kg
12 reps @ 50kg
Smith Squats
8 reps @ 100kg *
*lots of warm up sets, moving up in 10kg increments, as I knew I wasn’t feeling it.
Leg Press (smith variation)
12 reps @ 110kg
12 reps @ 110kg
12 reps @ 110kg
Calf Raises
20 reps @ 120kg
16 reps @ 120kg
16 reps @ 120kg
Cable Crunches
18 reps @ 100kg
16 reps @ 100kg
16 reps @ 100kg
12.0k steps
400mg L-Carnitine PW
10mg Cialis PW
20mins treadmill PW
1lt coconut water
Pull
Flexion Row
16 reps @ 75kg
14 reps @ 75kg
13 reps @ 75kg
Underhand Lat Pulldowns
14 reps @ 85kg
14 reps @ 85kg
13 reps @ 85kg
Pull-ups
13 reps @ body weight
11 reps @ body weight
10 reps @ body weight
Face pulls
16 reps @ 60kg
14 reps @ 60kg
14 reps @ 60kg
Rear Delt-Flys
16 reps @ 12.5kg
15 reps @ 12.5kg
14 reps @ 12.5kg
Standing Bicep Curls
16 reps @ 17.5kg
16 reps @ 17.5kg
16 reps @ 17.5kg
Standing Ez-Bar Curls
16 reps @ 30kg
13 reps @ 30kg
12 reps @ 30kg
Rest (8hrs travel in car to the city)
11k steps
26.3k steps
400mg L-Carnitine PW
10mg Cialis PW
22mins treadmill
Upper
Cable Reverse Fly
16 reps @ 15kg
16 reps @ 15kg
12 Reps @ 20kg
Standing Lateral Raises
14 @ 12.5kg
12 @ 12.5kg
12 @ 10kg
Wide Grip Parallel Bar Lat Pulldowns
12 @ 60kg
12 @ 60kg
12 @ 60kg
Row
15 @ 40kg
16 @ 40kg
14 @ 45kg
Incline cable bench
14 @ 70kg
14 @ 70kg
12 @ 75kg
Flat cable fly
14 @ 15kg
12 @ 20kg
14 @ 20kg
*workout was completed at hotel gym. Tried to make things work and progressively overload from previous upper body session. But the combination of different setup and fatigue made things difficult.
Rest. (8hr travel in car)
Rest. Stuck at doctors all day with sick kid.
Notes:
- not much to note this week except as previously stated; started strong, lots of heavy, overhead work at work and then accumulated fatigue kicking my ass.
- Thought having a few days break from work would help, but a deload is in order.
- Attached photo of hotel gym.View attachment 156939