My walk to the gym was the more interesting story.
Based upon Paul Carter’s Strong-15 (LRB365)
- BW (around 250) x 3
- BW x 2
- BW x 2
- BW x 2
- BW x 1
- 135 x 10
- 135 x 10
- 135 x 10
- 135 x 7
- 60e x 12
- 60e x 12
- 60e x 12
- 60e x 12
- 45 x 20
- 45 x 14
- 35 x 20
- 35 x 20
The more interesting story was the walk to the gym.
Some wicked storms blew through Texas last night. My neighborhood was under a tornado warning. Heavy rains (nearby friend with a weather station reported a 0.5″ rain in 10 minutes!). Straight-line winds up to 70 MPH. It was a pretty precarious couple of hours. We came out relatively unscathed — tree limb down, lost a screen on a window, but really nothing much. But on the walk to the gym, I saw lots of downed limbs, and probably half-dozen down trees — some split/broken on the main trunk, a few fully uprooted. One was laying across a car (tho it didn’t seem to have any obvious major damage, but I’m sure there’s something). I’m sure chainsaws and roofers will be buzzing for the next couple weeks.
As for the lifting itself. Just fine. I’m getting used to this dedicated back day stuff. I don’t feel like it’s enough volume, but I’m not going to change it. I can look in the mirror and when I look through the layer of fat, I can see there’s a back screaming to get out. So “sub-max” work is working. Could more volume do better for me? Don’t know, but for now that’s not important — follow the template.
I did have some mental peed-outs. That 14 on the curls? I just stopped. I think I hate 20 reps. Probably wouldn’t have gotten to 20, but certainly could have done more than 14. Dropped the weight, and even on that last set I wanted to stop at 12 but knew it was all in my head and kept going.
Anyways…. so far, so good. Onwards to week 2.
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