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[Mason-]

Nice volume on deadlifts. But it knocks it out of you for the subsequent lifts. The incline sets were tough, flat bench with feet up were ok. But by the time I got to the assisted pull ups I was struggling a lot.
Still - happy that I'm not failing on any of the big movements yet.

 

[mrthingyx]

Thar is a lot of deadlift volume! Not necessarily a bad thing if you are getting enough sleep/etc.

And I will never understand "feet up" bench.

 

[Mason-]

Thar is a lot of deadlift volume! Not necessarily a bad thing if you are getting enough sleep/etc.

And I will never understand "feet up" bench.

I know what you mean I don’t get it either really. I might replace incline with OHP and do dumbbell flat press as a mix up to the heavy barbell sets in workout A.

 

[Mason-]

Wife went into labour on the 17th and gave birth to our lovely daughter. Today was my first time back since then, I’d been itching to go.

It was the session with lighter weights and pause reps. My plan was to see how things were going and if they felt tough to just do them as standard reps and treat it as a deload. But I actually felt great and did the session.



I’ve been having back pain lately though. On my right side under my shoulder blade, I suspect it’s my lat. Don’t know what I did, probably lifting up my 18 month old a lot more? Might have to post a form check for the toddler lift up in the gym rats thread.

It didn’t interfere with the gym though, and doesn’t seem to hurt any more at the moment… see how I feel when I wake up.

 

[mrthingyx]

Wife went into labour on the 17th and gave birth to our lovely daughter. Today was my first time back since then, I’d been itching to go.

It was the session with lighter weights and pause reps. My plan was to see how things were going and if they felt tough to just do them as standard reps and treat it as a deload. But I actually felt great and did the session.



I’ve been having back pain lately though. On my right side under my shoulder blade, I suspect it’s my lat. Don’t know what I did, probably lifting up my 18 month old a lot more? Might have to post a form check for the toddler lift up in the gym rats thread.

It didn’t interfere with the gym though, and doesn’t seem to hurt any more at the moment… see how I feel when I wake up.

Congratulations!

 

[Mason-]

Well that was horrendous. I felt ok yesterday, but this morning my legs felt so stiff. It’s my upper groin, maybe adductors?

Even after my stretching routine they felt awful, tried the squats:


Could only manage 3 reps of the heavy weight and the reps probably weren’t to full depth. Then tried 3 of the lighter weight, felt rough. So I just stopped did not want to injure myself. It was weird, I couldn’t keep my knees open, they wanted to come in, not buckle, but be in line with my hips and feet. So I suspect it is adductors.

Any tips on stretches for these?

It was just tightness in my legs though, so bench went well and that’s a new 5 rep PR on bench. Creeping up on bodyweight bench for 5 reps. Should be there in a few weeks if I continue to lose weight too. I’m currently at 97kg.