Despite de-load week firmly in the rear vision, the hardest week of Wendler 5/3/1 kicks in..week 1. Yes weird as it seems I always feel like crap on week 1. I am not sure whether its the transition from the 50% weights of de-load or just the great gods of Iron fucking with me. Regardless I always struggle with my bench top set of 5, hell even deadlift feels like someone added extra plates.
Actually I think it is more likely I have incremented the last 3 cycles just a little to much so while I am kicking the top sets on week three, for some reason the rep days are kicking my ass. In fact at this point I am close to shutting down this macro cycle. Not withstanding my squat issues (now fixed with the cambered bar) last cycle I hit 1RM's on Bench, Deadlift and Military Press so a de-load month of volume reps and active recovery is probably on the cards.
My goal in the next year is to lift at nationals in the 75kg class masters and hang with the PTC crew, though I should get a first comp in possibly in January depending on how the totals go. Though the short term short term goal is to kick back with holidays over X-mas and enjoy 3 weeks off just eating lifting and sleeping..bring it on!
Stay Strong
Thomo
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