Training 01/08/24

Thu 01/08/24: Something Light

AM BW: 96.3kg

Background Noise: The Riff

Pause Belt Squat:
8x80kg
12x80kg
12x80kg
12x80kg
2 minute rests

Paused Single Leg Extension:
12x20kg
12x20kg
12x20kg
No rest, just 12 at a time per leg

Single Leg Dumbbell RDL:
12x60lb
12x60lb
12x60lb
90 second rests

Pause Dumbbell Bench:
12x60lb / hand
12x60lb / hand
18x60lb / hand @ 8
2 minute rests

• Up at 5am, but was pressed for time as I had a 7am meeting so wanted to keep this session short. Managed to tweak my left wrist (probably from curls) in Tuesday’s session so between that and my back tweak (which is slowly easing) it’s like… whatever. Just gotta take a reasonably light week and do what I can do.

• Obviously I wasn’t feeling up for putting a bar on my back and squatting today, subbed in belt squats. First warm up rep, felt my hip go pop and decided I’d just do the warm up weight. At least I managed sets of twelve, the last one was actually quite challenging and my back had had enough.
• Fairly decent load drop on the leg extensions but was still surprised how hard the third set was, I had a big quad burn.
• Honestly wasn’t sure I’d be able to do any sort of hamstring work apart from maybe hamstring curls, but I tried these with a really light weight and they didn’t feel too bad. Pushed the pace a bit to get them done.
• Kept bench nice and light too. It was annoying my wrist so probably a good thing. Pushed the last set out to eighteen(!) reps and probably could have done a couple more at least. But whatever. It was 6am and I had to walk the dog.
• All done in 37 minutes. Good enough.