Last night was openers for our team with most of the crew in and ready to lift. As a newbie I find openers and interesting concept. I have been told it's mostly for confidence but to be honest I took more confidence from my PB's the previous week than backing up last night and eating into recovery.
Again output from last night was mixed. It seems while some guys run an undulating periodisation model I end up having an undulating success model!! Last week PB's on everything and feeling strong, last night my squat fucked with me again and I needed take a second opener to feel good...and I still didn't.
The upside was I was fired up for deadlifts and pulled a nice fast opener at 160 ready to give 180 a shake at Nationals, as always one step at a time!
On reflection I was pretty sure I was no where near warmed up enough for the squat. I raced through my warm-ups so that I could slot in with Yianni and Darwin and by the time I got to my work set I was feeling tight and consequently my form felt off right away. Lesson for Nats, run my own race and take the time to warm up with plenty of reps, I know I feel better mentally when I do this.
It's funny but after all this prep I am still making dumb mistakes, however it is good to see with the squat most of these are simply poor positioning or prep in my warmups: these can be easily rectified.
On the upside I am entering Nats hitting my best numbers ever and the deadlift last night went up really well.
I am flying Thursday so I will spend time recovering, cutting weight (already under the limit) and maybe a light session at 40% tomorrow on the squat to get my foot positioning right and stretch out the hips.
The work is all done and success is now all down to strength of mind.
Stay Strong
Thomo
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