Feeling Undiminished, Blut Attempts Restoration

[the-short-one]

I'm so terminally American that I had to find a converter for kilos - lbs.

So now that I've caught up with your squat weight:

20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 80x3, 110x2, 130x2, 210 - 10s walkout 132.5x20

Did you squat 210 10 reps? (Thank you in advance for being patient with the American female. )

 

[blut wump]

Hi, short-one. No, I didn't squat the 210Kg.

Over the first six sessions, I'd done a triple with around 20% more weight than the 20-repper, mostly to make the 20-repper feel light and take away doubts that I could the reps.

On the final three workouts, I was starting to doubt that I'd get the 20-repper so was trying to conserve my energies and switched over to doing just a walkout with heavier weight. I'd hold it for a slow 10-count and then rack it. That's what the 10s is, 10 seconds. That 210 felt heavy by the time I unloaded it.

Last training cycle, I got as far as 170Kg x 3 (375 lbs) beltless before being struck down by a battery of physical blights. If I can get back there on this run, I'll be happy with it.

 

[H_T_]

i swear that SQ workout helped my BP last night. my glutes, hams & lower back were contracting hard as all hell and my arch was great and i managed 370x3. been a while since i hit that.

 

[UrlMighty]

Hi, BW, I just saw your post here at fitness ab. That's a nice piece of text for a new board.

 

[blut wump]

Hi, BW, I just saw your post here at fitness ab. That's a nice piece of text for a new board.

Thanks Url. It's good of you to comment. Cheers.

 

[blut wump]

Deload 3

My legs were still aching today so I was expecting a workout in which I'd be generally struggling. It went better than expected.

I had intended just three triples at 140 today but the first set felt quite a bit easier than expected. I bumped by 2.5Kg and then did the same again for a third set. None of the sets was any particular struggle and I had the luxury of being able to ensure I got good depth before coming up. Not a pause by any means, just simple, no-hassle sets.

My first deads in quite a while so I stayed conservative. My lower back was aching a lot again. If someone had told me that they'd been slipping me dbol I'd have probably believed them. Disuse, I guess.

I'm not really sure what I'm doing with OHP. These felt about right, though. I'm still deloading this week so I wanted to keep the workload down.

I was really pleased with the squats. Today's the first day that I've believed that I really can get back to where I got to during the last 5x5 run in a decent time-frame. Since that had been on gear, I was wondering whether it really was gone and lost. I know that 145 is still a long way from 170 but today felt good.

On another note, I have to confess that I've been neglecting abs. The front squats on Wednesday have left me with an aching abdomen. I'd better start doing something about that.


All weight in Kilos, +.5Kg unless just the bar.
Squats
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 140x3, 142.5x3, 145x3, 60x10
Deads
20x10, 60x8, 100x5, 120x3, 140x3
MP
20x10, 40x6, 60x5, 67.5x3, 72.5x3

 

[blut wump]

I did the 'sled'-dragging around the sand-school again today. I only managed around 15-20 minutes and my lower back was seriously whinging at me again. I managed 40 minutes easily while I was doing the 20-reppers. Dire back pumps.

The only things I've been taking extra of lately are CEE and a fair bit more EFAs - evening primrose oil, cod liver oil, salmon oil, flax oil - and a couple of grams of vitamin C daily.

 

[blut wump]

Intensity - Week 1 Day 1

The squats were quite hard and I was a bit wobbly coming up. Maybe I really need to see about squatting on one of those new-fangled level surfaces. I don't recall ever being in doubt about whether I'd be able to come back up but was unsure about how I'd actually do it.

Push press is way easier than MP at a given weight. As I mentioned before, I've never really worked these. The set at 80 was fairly easy. The set at 90 was moderately hard. I wasn't getting enough leg drive.

BB row was fine. Easier than I expected.

The squats are still ticking along nicely. I bumped by 15Kg since last week's workout. I'll see how Friday goes.


All weights in Kilos, +.5Kg unless just the bar
Squats
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 135x3x3
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 140x3, 142.5x3, 145x3, 60x10
20x10, 30x10, 60x5, 90x3, 120x3, 140x2, 150x3x3, 100x8
Push Press
20x10, 40x5, 60x3, 70x3, 80 x 1 for 3
20x10, 40x8, 60x3, 80x3, 90x3
Pendlay Rows
20x10, 60x5, 90x3, 100x3x3


Edit:
Added last Friday's to last Tuesday's squats in orange

 

[anotherbutters]

I thought you did 145x3 on Friday, not 135x3x3?

 

[blut wump]

I did 140x3, 142.5x3 and 145x3 on Friday. Last Tuesday I did 135x3x3.

I guess I should be putting all the squat sessions in orange to show the progression. I'll edit my last one.