Better.

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

• Work Set – Press (working max: 145#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x60
  • 1x5x75
  • 1x3x90
  • 1x5x110 (work)
  • 1x3x125
  • 1x5x140
• Assistance – Press
  • 5 x 10/10/10/7/6 x 90
• Assistance – Lat Pulldowns
  • 4 or 5 x 12 x 105
• Assistance – Lateral Raises
  • 3 x 12/11/9 x 20
• Assistance – Rope Pressdowns
  • 1 x 20 x 45
• Assistance – Hammer Curls, 30 rep
  • 30#

It felt good. Yeah, I’m not moving heavier weights, but I feel like I’m using better form and coping well enough with my carb-deprevation. All things considered, I think it’s working out alright.

I can also say, my shoulders always give me issues, but the other day I was just moving around and found an interesting “stretch”. It really helped my anterior deltoid. I’ve been moving my body into that position for the past some days, as much as I can, and gee if it’s not helping things feel a LOT better. It’s not a way you’d probably normally move or a position you’d enter into in daily life. But gee, if it’s going to help my shoulders, great. Everything in my shoulder/neck area is feeling better.

Don’t recall how many sets of pulldowns I did… I thought I did 4, but my records came up with 5 so…. *shrug*

I also spent about 5 minutes on the elliptical. Moderate incline, moderate resistance, and cruising at about 140-150 “steps” per minute. That’s tough enough for me… and while it’s really nothing to write home about, I so hate conditioning work and stuff like this. I need to work my way up into it, but yeah… I’ll just keep doing stuff and seeing if it helps with the fat loss.

On that note… eating is getting better. I think I’m finding a groove. But on the same token, when it starts to feel “natural” and “normal” to me is a prime time for me to slip up and regress, so I have to stay on top of things.

OH… no deload. I’m starting cycle 22 on Monday. I’ve tried this in the past and I’m going to try it again for a while and see: 2 cycles in a row, deload after the second cycle. I will up my weights tho.