Maybe it was short, but with a good, grass-fed reason.

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 22, week 1

• Work Set – Bench Press (working max: 215#)
  • 2x5x45 (warmup)
  • 1x5x85
  • 1x5x110
  • 1x3x130
  • 1x5x140 (work)
  • 1x5x165
  • 1x8x185
• Assistance – DB Incline Press
  • 5 x 10/10/10/8/7 x 50
• Assistance – DB Rows
  • 3 x 10/10/25 x 50

Man… reset and the weights feel really light. So, focus on form, cranking as much volume as possible… so long as in the long-run we’re stronger, right?

This sort of approach is really putting it to my triceps. I can feel them being the first to peed out during inclines. All good.

I did cut this a little short today because I had to get on the road to pick up our beef. We recently purchased another young beef from Sand Creek Farm and it just finished processing at Taylor Meat Company. Had to go pick it up this morning, and now the chest freezer is full of wonderful grass-fed hormone-free “rose” beef.

It was well worth the trade-off for my lifting session. 🙂 Especially after yesterday. Had to go out of town for a funeral, and while I did my best to plan meals, plans don’t always work out and I had to eat on the road… at a Dairy Queen. *sigh* Alas, my choice of steak fingers wound up being rather horrible — I question how much “steak” was actually in there. Don’t look at the nutrition info, because it’s just horrible. But that ended up counting as my carbs for the day. I also got to learn that DQ’s in Texas are apparently handled differently than DQ’s everywhere else in the world.

I’m thinking I need to adjust to eat less carbs on my carb days (if such a thing is possible without driving me nuts) and also drop my fat consumption down… probably sticking to less than 100g of fat a day every day. Ugh. In a sense, I’m feeling “too good” with these dietary changes, like I’ve still got more than enough energy, so I may well not be trimming off what I need instead of fat getting burned. We shall see.