I went to the gym to lift today for the first time since the meet on Saturday. From previous experience I know better than to try to lift heavy within a week of a meet (I tried once and maxed out my deadlift at about 155#, it was painful.) Today my plan was to do low weight, high-rep stuff and just get my body moving and sweating a little bit to help with recovery. I'll start training again on my new program (woot!) on Monday, more on that later.
I thought I planned out a pretty light and easy program for myself and it did only take about 40 minutes total, but by the end I was still totally wiped, and right now I feel more like I just did a max effort deadlift day with Chris than that I spent 40 minutes doing some light-weight stuff at the Y. Ah well, it was certainly humbling and also a good reminder that my body still needs a few more days of rest and recovery before I can go hard again. As they say, recovery is as important and training for making progress!
Training today:
1) Front Squat 45#x10 (only one set because my left knee is acting up again so I want to lay off it until it calms down. I probably tweaked it on my failed 205# squat at the meet but hoping it shapes up by next week.)
2) Single-leg Dumbbell RDLs w/ 20# DBs 4x10
(random set of bicep curls with 15# DBs just for fun)
3a) Elevated push-ups 4x10
3b) Single-arm lunge rows 35# 4x10
4a) Barbell pushpress 55# 4x10
4b) Lat pulldown 100# 3x10 (skipped my last set because a guy was sitting on the machine and I didn't care enough to ask him to get off it, like I said, I was tired :)
5a) Planks 2x30secs
5b) Back extensions 3x10
Aaaaaaand . . . . exhausted.
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