1/9-1/13 Training with the Intent of Showing Off

Sunday Press:
45 x enough
110 x 5
125 x 3
1 x 140
1 x 150 and it was now or never to hit a new max so,
1 x (165) not today which pissed me off so,
5 x 1 x 155

Monday Dead Lift
135 x 5
235 x 5
265 x 3
295 x 1
345 x 1 and then
(375) x 2 x 1 which prompted questions on why I jumped fifty and then thirty pounds. Basically I knew 345 was not a problem. I knew 355-365 was not a problem; it was time to try to pick up 375 which I haven't attempted since July when I fried my back. I'm training to hit a PR as soon as March. With that in mind, I'm not interested in taking five pound increments anymore. This was the right way to fail. 400 in March I think, not 350 in January.

Wednesday Bench
45 x 15
135 x 5
160 x 5
180 x 3
200 x 1 Here I could tell it was not a big day, yet I wanted to get some work in so,
225 x 3 x 1

Thursday Squat
45 x 5
135 x 5
185 x 3
245 x 5
280 x 3
315 x 1 bad, bad, bad: the program said 310, but 315 is so easy to load. Horrible discipline, let me plead that I very rarely do this kind of thing. I knew I wanted to hit 330-340 then shut down so,
340 x 2 this was supposed to be a single, but it felt so easy I doubled. I made a real effort to work on my rack, and with my back locked in, this just felt light. This might have been a good day to hit 375 and see if I had still more, but I stayed with the plan of quitting here.

Why such a plan?

Rowing is killing me. I'll take two consecutive deload weeks now heading into the erg race. In February I'll push the lifting hard again.