- 135# x 5
- 225# x 5
- 275# x 3
- 305# x 2
- 315# x 4 x 5
- 135# x 5
- 225# x 5
- 275# x 4 x 5
- 155# x 4 x 7
- 220# x 4 x 5
- 135# x 20 Yards x 10 @ :30r
Day one of week 2 in the books. Squats felt good until 315# got on the bar, then it didnt feel good anymore. Took some video of 2 sets of skwats and it looks like im getting stinky butt out of the hole (butt is rising too fast) so im going to have to try to fix that as i go. I think a lot of it is me rushing into the hole to try and finish the set rather than slotting the bar and settling the weight. Fixable so i'm not too concerned. I threw the belt on today for the first time in a while. I wanted to take 315# for all 20 reps without it, but it wasn't in the cards. Sumo was noticeably harder after the squats, but obviously so. Videos still look solid and my back is looking flat and strong. I need to remember little things like taking the slack out the bar, dropping my hips before i start driving, tucking my chin, and squeezing the glutes rather than hyperextending at the top, but at least im aware of it and i can actively fix it. When i went to do good mornings it felt like someone beat the shit out of me with a pipe for the previous 45 minutes. I'm REALLY trying to make a point to condition this week, cause i've been a lazy douche about it recently. I figure 10 minutes a day, just HIIT, sled work and done. The less i have to think about it the more likely ill do it.
I'm going to try and add in some bodybuilding days on Wednesday and Saturday. I say bodybuilding, but i could appease people and say "repetition effort like westside" but either way its the same shit, and if you think it has no place in a program your stupid. Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy to bring up lagging muscles, not myofibrillar hypertrophy like the other 4 days of training. Layman's terms, high reps low stress bigger muscles. Upper back, low back / ab supersets, neck and trap supersets, and some extra foam rolling and mobility will be on tap. Ideally nothing to mess with recovery, but enough to elicit some adaptation.
Otherwise, i'm feeling ok. I'm a little banged up but nothing that will mess with my training, so far at least. My left lat area has had some sort of nagging knot in it for a while and i felt it start tensing up when i was pulling today. It isnt anything that i cant work through obviously, just a dull and distracting pain. The other thing is my left shoulder sounds like rice krispy treats. Again, no pain yet, but that shit cant be good. Until i see a Doc, who will most likely recommend rest and a high dose of being a pussy, i'm just going to mobilize, roll out, take my fish url, and do the best i can.
Times like these bring me back to the dichotomy that exists in what i do. I'm an aspiring strength coach with a 4 year degree in exercise science from a major university, with some of the most prestigious certifications in the industry. I'm the guy who should know how to do it, and how to do it right. But on the other side of that coin, part of me doesn't care. I'm chasing numbers and performance, not aesthetics, and god damn it i want to set some records before i hang it up for good. You can't train how we train forever. At some point, you will break, and it will be very very bad. I'm not talking a minor injury- im talking torn shoulders, torn hamstring, herniated discs, inguinal hernias, intestines poking through your abdominal wall, things that are catastrophic and life altering. But this is the toll we pay i suppose. Every time you walk up to a loaded bar close to the most your body is literally capable of doing, you're playing with fire and you're risking your health. It's a choice we make and we have to accept the consequences. I'm not sure how long we're meant to handle this type of stress, but i'm thankful for every day i get to push and fight to add some weight to that bar. I'll end this little story with a video that puts it in better terms than i can by someone who's done it far longer than i have.
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