Oopf… some days you just don’t set yourself up for success, but things mostly work out. 🙂

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 17, week 2

• Work Set – Squat (working max: 295#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x120
  • 1x5x150
  • 1x3x180
  • 1x3x210 (work)
  • 1x3x240
  • 1x4x270 (PR??)

Yesterday, the family went to the local Renaissance Faire. While not physically exhausting by any means, walking around all day, throwing axes, embarassing myself on the high striker, and well… when you structure your energy levels a certain way then do something different and expend what little reserves you already have (hadn’t had any real carbs since Friday morning) well…. that just set me up for being drained. I did have a funnel cake before we left, and ate some Buc-Ee’s Nug-Ee’s on the drive home… but that wasn’t enough. I also ended up crashing out on the couch for I don’t know how long, woke up and shuffled into the bed and proceeded to sleep 8 hours (maybe 10 hours total?). Didn’t eat a proper dinner, or pre-bedtime shake or anything because I was zonked. So uh…. yeah, not setting myself up for success. :-\

Thus today was a “jack shit” day because it was all I could muster. I probably could have done more squats and ab work, but I really didn’t feel like draining myself more than I already was.

As for the work I did do… is 4 reps of 270 a PR? Sorta. It wasn’t but cycle 15 when 270 was a PR and I got 3. Today I got 4 (5 was not going to happen). And I wasn’t even fully into it because of the physical factors, and I wasn’t very focused because I wasn’t able to unwind from yesterday and waking up barely in time to get to the gym (slept late!), I wasn’t able to get my brain ready for today either. So you know… hey… 4 reps and I wasn’t really there? Well, not ideal on paper, but in the greater context of it all, fine.

Next week… 285… that will be a true PR. That should kick ass. 🙂