Gee, I hope I’m making progress.

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 21, week 3

• Work Set – Deadlift (working max: 360#)
  • 1x5x145 (warmup)
  • 1x5x180
  • 1x3x220
  • 1x5x275 (work)
  • 1x3x310
  • 1x5x345
• Assistance – Deficit Deadlift (1.5″ deficit)
  • 3 x 8/6/4 x 185
• Assistance – Farmers walks
  • 45# plate in each hand, 50 yards, 10 breaths rest between trips, 6 trips

I reset, I’m using less weight, but shouldn’t I be feeling stronger, like 345 isn’t much? But yet, it was hard. Not sure if it was just today, but I’m guessing it’s more because I’m trying to have better form: pressing the weight up with my legs, instead of pulling it with my back. Oh sure, form degraded some of the 345 set, but every other set was very much pressing things up. After the 345 set I noticed my legs felt a lot wobbly — I just don’t recall my legs feeling “worked” after a deadlift session before. So I reckon this is a good thing and moving in the proper direction.

I continue to avoid the belt, except for the heaviest set.

And I reckon maybe this was all part of it… because I just couldn’t do any deficits. Again, going much deeper, really focused on pressing with my legs, and geez… I just couldn’t. 🙂

As mentioned previously, I am going to try to add some conditioning/cardio work to my sessions in hopes it helps with the fat loss. Thing is, I hate cardio work. So I’m just going to have to try to find various and different things, and that doing something is better than doing nothing. So today while picking up the 45’s off the ground (used as my deficit platform) I just kept walking… essentially did Farmer’s Walks. It didn’t feel like a whole lot of stress (save for my grip), but again, something is better than nothing… and whatever I have to do to keep it interesting so I stay motivated to keep doing it.