Training 15/08/24

Thu 15/08/24: Something Light

AM BW: 96.4kg

Background Noise: The Riff

Swiss Bar Bench:
10x25kg
10x25kg
8x75kg
3x90kg
5x100kg
5x100kg
5x100kg
5x100kg @ 9.5
2.5 minute rests

Lat Pulldown:
2×52.5kg and done

Seated Cable Row:
12x65kg
12x65kg
15x65kg
2.5 minute rests

Reverse Lunge:
12x30lb / hand
12x30lb / hand
12x30lb / hand
2.5 minute rests

Hammer Curl:
12x30lb / hand
12x30lb / hand
12x30lb / hand
2 minute rests

• Slept like a log last night, probably not enough (Garmin said 7hrs 26 mins but whatever). Dragged myself out to the gym at 5:15 anyway. Feel like my back and wrist are slowly improving.

• I was originally just going to bench one set of five and then drop the load, but it was easy enough I kept going. Until it wasn’t. Wrist was OK though, so long as I keep the weight in the radial zone not the ulnar zone where it hurts; the neutral position helps with that.
• But then I found out the hard way that lat pulldowns absolutely do not work. Two reps in and I was in a fairly decent amount of pain, so I stopped. It was that bad earlier today I was thinking about getting an x-ray but it’s improved as the day has worn on, so clearly I just tweaked the sore spot. Moved on and did some light seated rows instead, which were tolerable enough that I even pushed the last set out to fifteen and tried to do them explosively.
• Did some reverse lunges, my hip and knee felt like crap and these had me very puffed but I got them done and even had a bit of a quad burn. Finished with some light curls, which cause some minor wrist discomfort but this weight didn’t seem heavy enough to risk making it worse.
• All done in 51 minutes.