Training 29/10/17

Sun 29/10: Deadlift

Food yesterday: 2267 kcal

Activity yesterday: 11.1k steps

Sleep last night: 7 hrs 44 mins – 59 mins awake

AM BW: 73.0kg (+0.1kg from yesterday)

Deadlift:
1×5 @ 80kg
1×5 @ 100kg
3×8 @ 120kg (Volume PR)

Front Squat (with straps):
2×5 @ 20kg
1×5 @ 45kg
3×8 @ 65kg (PR, +2.5kg)

Cable Crunches:
1×4 @ 35kg nup – ab ouchie

Decline Situps:
3×10 with 5kg plate
1×10 with BW, bit cheaty
1×20 with BW, arms under the bench

I dun made a movie. Even though I feel a bit embarassed:

Weigh in day. Averaged 2255 kcal per day this week, and my average weight is down 1.2 kg – that’s more like it. Almost back to where I was before our holiday, would like to be 1-2kgs under that in 2 weeks when this is done. That will give me some headroom to gain a couple of kgs before the virtual meet in January.

Session notes:
– Felt pretty weak and unmotivated this morning. But that seems to be a recurring theme at the moment. Dieting and life stress, I guess.
– I managed to pull 120kg for one set of eights while we were away, but this is the first time attempting it for sets across. Managed it, with ~6 minute breaks, but it was challenging. Fair bit of form breakdown, it looks like I wasn’t even attempting to get (and keep) my back flat half the time. Gah….
– Front squats felt pretty horrible too, not particularly deep, and challenging, but definitely easier with straps. PR for eights. But looking at depth on the video I probably shouldn’t count it.
– Tried cable crunches but that ab tweak started to hurt more with each rep. Tried ab roller too, but that seemed dangerous. Tried decline situps, seemed to stay the same level of annoyance all the way through, so did some careful work there. I think they hit the lower abs more than the upper where the issue is.
– Session time: 1hr 18 mins. On paper I thought it’d be quicker.
– Pleased I got the work done. Feel physically pretty good. Mentally, frustrated that my form is so shitty and that I have to work around niggles. Fancy tweaking an abdominal bench pressing, FFS. Anyway – thus ends week 43, and tomorrow is a new day.