Thursday, April 18, 2013

Deadlift Thursday: Only My Ears Hurt

Deadlifts
10 reps @ 60 kgs
8 reps @ 100 kgs
5 reps @ 140 kgs
3 reps @ 180 kgs
11 reps @ 200 kgs PR

Kroc rows
left 10 reps @ 55 kgs
right 10 reps @ 55 kgs
left 8 reps @ 65 kgs
right 5 reps @ 65 kgs TPR
left 7 reps @ 80 kgs
right 10 reps @ 50 kgs

Pinwheelz
12 reps @ 15 kgs
10 reps @ 20 kgs
8 reps @ 17.5 kgs
10 reps @ 15 kgs

ONE REP less, but 20 kilos heavier than last week. Pretty happy with this effort, and very, very glad nothing hurt... apart from my ears. Very strange music selection tonight. I felt like I should be pilling, waving glow sticks about and wearing oversized clothes with most of my underwear showing. Not lifting heavy shit. But anyway, this means I can keep deadlifting, which (pardon the pun) is a major weight off my shoulders. Too few things are going right, right now, but at least I have the deadlift back.

My right arm is just pissweak. Pissweak - like it was when I started curling with it in 2010. Only then I was a little stronger... and quite a bit more flexible. I will have to get a referral for an angiogram on my right hip, at some point in the near future. And I really don't know if I should continue squatting heavy while I'm in this condition.

In fact I've been advised that my problem is developmental. My connective tissue et cetera is weak because I didn't do enough resistance training or similar when I was younger, and this is the truth. The way to remedy this is (FML) 20-30 reps sets of a weight I can do only 20-30 reps of. Monday nights are gonna be anguishing. But hopefully, with this approach, it won't make my hip any worse in the meantime.

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