It's the 15th day since the great summer flu decided to fuck with me and I am still shaking off the effects. Add the wasted week of training from my back injury and I have managed 3 sessions in almost 3 weeks!
Thankfully I was good for my first session back today and it felt damn fine to be back in the gym. I deadlifted, benched and front squatted, all relatively light and focusing on reps, form and getting the cobwebs out.
After this week I should finally be able to kick off my new routine with my new coach. While I have stopped myself checking out my new routine until I am ready to kick it off I did play around with front squats today as I am pretty sure they will be in my new program at some point. I really struggle with form on this and often lose the bar in front or get so much damn wrist pain that it makes the sets counter-productive. Today I tried using straps and by shit it worked well. My wrists felt fine and I was way more upright and as a consequence really felt the quads working.
Similarly with bench I am really focused on a tight upper back and not releasing that tightness on the drive off the chest. My deads felt very good today and I am doing plenty of pre-hab glute activation prior to lifting particularly on my problematic left side.
Given it was a Sunday the gym was almost completely empty so I didn't think there would be any 'what the moments' to keep me entertained. However I wasn't disappointed when a rather squat bulky fellow arrived at the gym did 5 sets of 2 inch range of motion overhead 1 handed triceps extensions then promptly left?? Maybe just working the tri's before the Sunday session at the beach who knows?
A great session felt good and cant wait to get into my new routine.
Enjoy the last day of the weekend
Thomo
No comments:
Post a Comment