Training 19/04/13
Felt pumped for today. It was going to be tough, but I was feeling pretty much recovered after the weekends stupid volume. Still got a lot of tightness that's accumulated in my glutes, adductors and quads (essentially legs minus hamstrings then!). I did a lot of stretching and soft tissue work yesterday to combat this which helped a lot.
Squats
bar x lots
60x12
100x5 somehow, I'm flexible!
140x5 hmm, it turns out I missed a part of my glutes. This lit me up for all remaining sets. No injury, just full of ache and DOMS
160x1 silly fast
180x1 kind of went full retard as I initiated, but it was still probably the fastest 180 I've ever done
195x6 comfortable. Shape not perfect, but only I seem to see it. Short rest into
195x6 harder! Still nice
195x6 these three sets were completed pretty quickly. Needed to let some bros get some work done so took a longer rest
195x6 horrible
195x6 first 5 felt like AIDS, last one I buried and it came up much better
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short ish rest into
195x4... I'd noticed straight away that there wasn't a collar on one side. Thought I might get away with it, but by the 4th rep the plates were really wandering and weight distribution was ****ed. Asked a bro to try and push the plates back on, but the bend in the bar meant that I was just being push sideways. Not ideal with this much weight and massive fatigue! Racked the bar, sorted the plates, gave myself 10 or so breaths...
195x3 so 7, just to compensate. This was genuinely some of the hardest squatting I've done from a mental point of view. A large part of me just craved the sweet release of death. A strong number of bros were there to provide shouts of encouragement, otherwise I might have just bailed.
So after that mess, I basically decided that I was done for the day. Did a little bit of stretching, then I figured that it would probably be a good idea to do some kind of warm down.
High bar squats
100x5x3
Felt horrible at first and I thought my legs might capitulate, but eventually they really loosened me up.
This is the true meaning of fatigue. It's also almost time for some more interesting weights to be squatted. It's going to take me a while to peak properly, because right now I'm suppressed as some kind of something. A deload beckons, too.