Today may have been a long crazy work day, but I wasn’t going to miss my gym time.

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 15, week 3

• 5/3/1 – Press (working max: 140#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x55
  • 1x5x70
  • 1x3x85
  • 1x5x105 (work)
  • 1x3x120
  • 1x7x135
• Asst. #1 – Press
  • 5 x 8/8/8/10/12 x 115/95/75/65/55
• Asst. #2 – Chin-ups – band assisted
  • 5 x 5 x BW
• Pump superset
  • Upright rows
  • Triceps Pressdown
  • Scott Curls
  • 3 sets, 8-15 reps, enough weight to make it hard; on 3rd set immediately drop weight and keep going to failure

As you recall, I reset my Press right in the middle of the cycle. I saw I wasn’t getting anywhere and risked this being a horrible week, so might as well fall back and regroup. Doing the math, yeah… it’s good I did. I think it’s better I got 7 with 135 than maybe 1 with the 160 I was scheduled for. But even still, looking back over things, I should have been able to get more reps.

I am watching my form and big problem is I’m not tight. I lose my full-body tightness as I go. But I did discover I do better to walk up to the bar, grab it squeezing tight, and immediately get under the back, unrack it, and start pressing. That is, the more time I take between grabbing the bar and starting reps, the harder things become in so many ways.

Well, next week is deload and so I hope to use it as a time to work on my form.

I did try using the wrist wraps here and it was just awkward. I’ll keep trying tho. May just need to wrap them differently.

I am happy I squeezed out 5×5 on the chin-ups. Yeah, band assist, but it seems to do a lot more for me than other methods. I’ll just keep working at it.

On my curls, I got a set of Fat Gripz and am trying them out. They were a little awkward on the preacher bench, but I’ll keep at ’em to see what they offer me.