Ouch. In the bad way… ouch. 😦

“Week 1”

• WORK – Squat (working max: 280#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x115
  • 1x5x140
  • 1x3x170
  • 1x5x185 (work)
  • 1x5x215
  • 1x5x240
• Asst. #2 – Crunches
  • 5 x 10 x BW
• Foam Rolling

Today was bad.

When I got under the bar with the 240, I came up on rep 5 and my lower back said “fuck you”.

That was the end of the day. Well, I laid down on the floor and did some crunches. And glad I did. That let me know what happened.

See, just prior to getting under the bar for the 240, I twisted my torso. It’s a movement I do now and again to pop my lower back. It works quite nice. But sometimes it doesn’t quite reset things and I have to finagle around more to get things to reset right. That must have happened. I didn’t notice it, nothing felt out of whack. But I reckon something just out of whack because after my first set of crunches I stayed on the floor and did some other twisting and movements and got quite a nice pop as my lower back reset.

*sigh*

It hurts. I don’t think I did anything truly wrong, but time will tell.

The other thing? I can see by my performance this first week that yes in fact I need a reset. It stands to reason. I’m going to do the math and start the reset on Wednesday, but continuing with this cycle. That is, Wednesday will still be 3 reps, but at much lower weights. It’s time to fix stuff, because I want to be in this for the long haul.

But otherwise, the squats went quite well. I reread some Rippetoe last night and had a bunch of things about the squat fresh in my head. My other sets went really well, proper cues in my head, and I was pretty happy with my progress, until my back hated life. Ah well, it’s how it goes.