Good way to end the year.

Wendler 5/3/1 program, cycle 26, week 3

• Work Set – Press (working max: 170#)
  • 45 x 5
  • 45 x 5
  • 70 x 5
  • 85 x 5
  • 105 x 3
  • 130 x 5
  • 145 x 3
  • 165 x 2 (PR)
• Close-grip pulldowns (neutral grip, superset with warm-up pressing sets)
  • 75 x 15 x 5
• Press
  • 105 x 10
  • 105 x 10
  • 105 x 8/4/2 (rest pause)
• Wide, pronated grip pulldowns (superset with additional pressing sets)
  • 110 x 12 x 3
• Cable EZ-Bar pressdowns (pin the elbows to the side)
  • 40 x 12 x 3
• Hammer DB curls (superset with pressdowns)
  • 30 x 10 x 3
• Spider DB curls
  • 15 x 10 x 2

Press is fun stuff, but I really had no desire to work up to some 1RM like I did the main 3 lifts. My PR was 165×1, so I figured go for reps today. As long as I got 2 I was happy. I got 2, and thought about 3 but just racked it because I did what I wanted and would rather stop while I’m ahead than miss a rep.

Rest of the session was just to work through things and keep me going.

All in all, a fine way to end “the year”.

I will be taking next week totally off as a deload. My focus will be on a lot of rest, and some rehab stuff (e.g. icing my knees every time I sit to watch some TV, foam rolling everything I can, etc.). I won’t go to the gym, but I do want to keep myself moving and recovering.

Because… there are other things that I’m going to start working on. I’ll write on those later.