Oh… it hurts. 🙂

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 24, week 2

• Work Set – Deadlift (working max: 390#)
  • 160 x 5
  • 195 x 5
  • 235 x 3
  • 275 x 3 (work)
  • 315 x 3
  • 355 x 4
• Assistance – Deficit Deadlift (1.5″ deficit)
  • 205 x 6 x 4 sets
• Assistance – Crunches
  • BW x 10 x 3 sets
• Farmer’s Walk – didn’t really happen (see below)
• Foam Rolling

I can tell… I need to eat carbs, but too many carbs does bloat me up. Gets away from me on the weekends. *sigh* Gotta watch that. And so, was a little sluggish today.

But at least I remembered to bring a camera! I brought a second iDevice and was able to find a way to video myself from the side. It’s not perfect, propped in a bench, so there’s a little angle and it’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing.

Maybe because the camera was watching me, I was really on about form. Lifts generally went well. I felt good with the 4 @ 355, and opted against 5 because it would have been bowling shoe ugly. Leave some in the tank, right?

Deficits kicked my butt, literally. Oh, it hurt. My lower back, glutes, hams… just dying. A 5th set wasn’t going to happen.

Then I tried some Farmer’s Walks, but slightly different. I pulled out my Fat Gripz, put them on the 60# dumbbell and started walking, but got 25 yards and stopped. The Gripz had me take an awkward position and there was bad pain in my wrists. I had to stop. If I’m going to keep using the Gripz I probably should start with a much lower weight, find my grip, then work back up. Took the Gripz off, did another 25 yards, but that was it… I had destroyed my posterior chain, so I just wasn’t going to have any more of it. You know… submaximal, never miss, leave some in the tank, so in the spirit of that I just stopped. Even tried the elliptical for a bit, but it just wasn’t going to have it. Heck, even now as I write this a couple hours later, I can still feel it.

But overall, I felt alright. I’m looking forward to next “week”, 5/3/1 week, and some Joker Sets on stuff. Let’s see where I can push myself!