I may have set a PR, but I realize… I just don’t like leg work. 🙂

“Week 3”

• 5/3/1 – Squat (working max: 260#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x105
  • 1x5x135 (supposed to be 130 but I didn’t feel like dealing with all the plates)
  • 1x3x160
  • 1x5x195 (work)
  • 1x3x225
  • 1x4x250 (PR)
• Asst. #1 – Leg Press
  • 5 x 10 x 315
• Asst. #2 – Leg Curls
  • 4 x 10 x 85
  • 1 x 6 x 85
• Foam Roll

After this workout I realize that I still don’t like leg work. Never liked it as a teenager or any time throughout my life that I’ve lifted. I admit I like it more now than I did before, but it’s still the least favorite of the 4 days. 🙂 But, you still do it, because if you don’t address your weaknesses you just become weaker.

It really wasn’t a good set tho. I found myself leaning forward too many times. On the 225 set I almost didn’t get out of the hole on rep 2! It was just a very off day. I’m not yet ready to reset, but as I’ve alluded to before in other log entries, I suspect resetting is coming.

But hey, 1x4x250 is still something I’ll take. It’s still a PR for me. And frankly, when I look back at the 230 sticking point I had for so long, I know that it’s far behind me now.

I’m playing with my foot placement on the leg press, trying to find what works me lower body closest to the squat. I’m thinking foot placement a little higher, so there’s more glute involvement and I feel more like I’m pressing through my heels than through my toes. Through my toes feels akin to “leaning forward” when squatting, so I don’t want that.

I don’t know what gives on the leg curls. I just peeded out. I’ll have to adjust this, maybe go to 80 for a cycle and see what shakes. Maybe even something like 5x15x80 or 5x12x80.

In other news… I’m enjoying the kitchen scale. It feels weird weighing out everything, but there’s a novelty right now and I get rather surprised when I see how the portion size and weight actually bear out — you realize that you are a terrible judge and have been consuming too much. 😦 We’ll see how it pans out for me tho.

I also decided for Lent to give up extraneous eating. I’m not Catholic, but I figured it was a good time to practice some extra discipline. What I mean by “extraneous eating” is eating stuff I don’t need to when I don’t need to. I eat the 5-6 meals a day and that’s all. I can’t snag a handful of almonds in between meals; sure almonds are good, better than chips or candy or some such, but it still contributes to caloric intake that I don’t need. Keep myself strictly to my meals, and if I really want almonds, work them into a meal somehow.

One thing that’s helping in an indirect way is the ZMA. You need to have an empty stomach when you take it, so I end up eating supper and that’s it for the night. That will help me a lot, because all too often I’d want to eat a little something before bed. Even if it was good eating, it was still eating. The ZMA itself too seems to be working nicely for me.

Next week is deload, and I really don’t want to do it. I want to just crank along. But I know, gotta deload for longevity.