Noticed that my Hips werent coming through quick enough on my top set of deads, so I focused on bringing my hips through as soon as the bar gets to my knees on the drop sets. Made a huge difference, really need to drill this in for my top sets.
As always, the circuit was killer, lowerback pump through the roof. all the power. love it.
Defenitely noticing some hypertrophy gains all over the place, lots of volume is noice.
Got a membership at a real big boi strongman gym thats gonna be opening up pretty close to my place at some point this week. Stoked to finally be able to train with implements consistently. Anywho, end of the deload is today, so back to the regularly scheduled programming.
Good to be back at it after the deload, feeling good and refreshed. Ready to kill it again.
Gonna focus on strict press this round, my push press was able to go up so hopefully this will help my strict press as well which is suffering.
Started off with a conservative 8RM of 135lbs. One thing Ive noticed with my strict press is that even a small weight increase can feel huge. Like I could have gotten 10 or 12 reps with 135lbs but If I tried to go up 5 or 10lbs I would have struggled to get 8 cause my shoulders fatigue very quickly.
So Im staying relatively conservative cause I dont want to go to failure every week.
Same prescribed accessory work as the last round, hopefully itll help build mass and endurance.
Front Squats
1x3(265lbs), 1x3(285lbs), 1x3(300lbs)
Leg Press
1x10(630lbs), 1x8(670lbs), 1x6(700lbs)
Split Squats
3x20(95lbs)
Leg Curls
3x8(170lbs)
Stiff Leg Deadlifts
3x8(275lbs)
Saturday(10/27) Upper Body Back
Speed Press
1x3(140lbs)
BTN Press
1x12(115lbs)
Rear Delt Fly
4x15(90lbs)
Chest Supported Rows
4x15(80lbs)
FacePulls
4x20(42.5lbs)
Notes
May be doing weekly updates from this time on, based on my schedule it just seems to be the easiest way for me to consistently update this log. If I have the time I may post day to day, but that is unlikely until winter break in December.
Besides that, first week back training went really well. Nothing to complain about, everythign going smoothly. Except for the one thing I have to complain about.
My. Fucking. Deadlifts. Are. Awful.
Idk what happened but somewhere down the line my form/technique shit the bed and now my back is starting to round significantly and my lockout isnt happening when its supposed too. Gonna be posting a video tomorrow hopefully of my form, see if we cant figure this fucker out.
Either way, they just dont feel right anymore and I love deadlifts so, dis needs to be fixed.
I appreciate the input, but my form/technique is spot on when Im warming up with lighter weights. Its only when I get to 500+lbs does it start to deteriorate, which makes me think its some sort of muscular weakness or imbalance somewhere causing this. It is also frustrating cause looking at older videos of me pulling 500+ the form was great, only recently has this become an issue which confuses me. I am gonna start doing more KB swings tho, cause I used to do them pretty much every workout and I feel like that helped alot.
Itās a lot easier for muscle memory to take over with lighter weights than it is with heavier weights, which could be part of it. Are there any cues that you used to use and then stopped?
For me, after I use a certain cue for a few weeks, it becomes part of my motor pattern and I donāt need to think about it anymore (like all people). But perhaps (if this is the case) you just need to bring certain cue(s) back to the forefront of your thoughts and force your body to do what it needs to do.
Good week this week training, back still rounding on deadlifts, but they are fast as fuck so a lose/win whatever situation. Will post video later.
The lifting 5 days a week is starting to take its toll, only 3 more weeks left luckily then switching to a 3 day a week strongman specific program which will be good for my health.
Feeling really fatigued going into this week, despite the good training my diet and sleep hit an all time low last week. At like shit and slept even worse, averaging about 4hrs a night for the whole week.
Having trouble staying asleep at night, gonna lower my caffeine intake and get some zzquil see if that helps.
Diet wise, gonna be cutting out all dairy products this month. I realize that I rely heavily on dairy in my everyday diet. I believe it is starting to make me sluggish and bloated, so Im gonna cut it out and see if anything changes.
Nah, its my lower back. Its not like a catback deadlift, but its noticable. Im starting to think that my hamstrings just might be too tight, gonna spend extra attention on them next session see if that helps.