Day started well with a decent nights sleep for my daughter which meant I slept reasonably soundly through to 5:30 along with another 1.5 hours of snoozing. Given I am up for work at 5:00 am each morning the sleep-in felt amazing.
Small breakfast of protein drink eggs and toast then meandered until time for the gym at 10:30. Today was deadift day week 2. I added 5kg to the 3x5 work sets (felt good and fast off the floor). Then worked up to 2x5 top sets. Then onto sumo assistance deads. I am finding these really good to help better activate the adductor and get my pelvic muscles stimulated differently. Getting wide can't but help my hips in the squat and I am working hard on mobility each session.
I'm really focusing on what Paul Carter calls base building in this phase and my mantra is owning the weight before I increment each week. That means starting light and really firing out of the hole. If I don't feel the top sets weights were fast and strong I'll repeat the week till they do. This is particularly my focus on the squats as I want to be rock solid raw before a wrap up on the platform next year for States and Nationals.
Pretty empty at the gym and as usual the platform was empty. But as always I am entertained in-between sets but lots and lots of normal gym shenanigans. Two regular guys were in there benching between 70-90kgs and not one set was done without cutting it 6 inches high off the chest and the spotters hands taking 20-30% of the weight.
Next up were a couple of skinny young guys that make me look buffed so you know how thin they must really be! Now while I managed deads, rows, prowler and my legs raises in the hour these dudes were still doing tricep kick backs, skull crushers and cable pushdowns for an hour!
I wish some of these fuckers could just spend a month at PTC for some eye-opening training!
Home straight after training for some post work-out fuel oh and never call it Peri nutrition fucking hate that term since T-Nation started bastardising it for every supplement advertorial they write.
Anyway hope your weekend was chilled like mine.
Stay Strong
Thomo
ps congrats to Mickey from Dallas who hit a PR total last weekend
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