Plug of the week:
check out my article on strengthening your adductors to help your squat! Well, I’m still right on track for the US Open, but I’m also worn the fuck out. Hitting back-to-back PR doubles in the squat and deadlift took it out of me. I’m going to adjust, move my planned deload up a week, and just relax for a few days to recoup from the brutality of the past few days. Monday: Squat Squat with Wraps 95% x2x2 Reverse Hyper 50x3x10 First double at 95% was ten pounds more than I’d ever done for a double, and it was actually really easy. Coming back and hitting it a second time wasn’t. I laid on the floor for about twenty minutes after. Wednesday: Deadlift Deadlift 95% x2 Add deficit 725x2 Well, I got my double for a five pound PR and thought hard about going for a second, but I still felt pretty crushed from Monday and decided to just take an easy backoff from a deficit instead. Turned out to not be so easy. I’m just tired at this point. Thursday: Squat Accessory Forced myself to go through with this day, but it turned into a bodybuilding/IG pose day. Whatever.
check out my article on strengthening your adductors to help your squat! Well, I’m still right on track for the US Open, but I’m also worn the fuck out. Hitting back-to-back PR doubles in the squat and deadlift took it out of me. I’m going to adjust, move my planned deload up a week, and just relax for a few days to recoup from the brutality of the past few days. Monday: Squat Squat with Wraps 95% x2x2 Reverse Hyper 50x3x10 First double at 95% was ten pounds more than I’d ever done for a double, and it was actually really easy. Coming back and hitting it a second time wasn’t. I laid on the floor for about twenty minutes after. Wednesday: Deadlift Deadlift 95% x2 Add deficit 725x2 Well, I got my double for a five pound PR and thought hard about going for a second, but I still felt pretty crushed from Monday and decided to just take an easy backoff from a deficit instead. Turned out to not be so easy. I’m just tired at this point. Thursday: Squat Accessory Forced myself to go through with this day, but it turned into a bodybuilding/IG pose day. Whatever.
Saturday: Bench Bench Press 92.5% x2x2 Shoulders & Arms Dropped my planned bench percent down a tad and smoked them, but felt a slight twinge in my pec at the end of the second double, so shut it down and did some bodybuilding work. Pec has some slight bruising but I also got a ton of work done on it by Tammy of Kinetix Body Science after, so the bruising is probably just from that. It doesn’t hurt, but it’s clearly a sign that I need to back off a bit before the final push. Deload time!
