Bench weak af. Squat was planning to top out at 205 but adding belt and sleeves felt good and a cute trainer girl was pulling sumo nearby so I obviously had to squat at least two plates. Depth was good, no knee/hip/back pain to speak of. Effort was manageable but once I took the sleeves off my knees felt really heavy and tight, so gonna be 4 days of debilitating soreness most definitely.
I haven't been logging because my workouts haven't been logworthy. I've strung together about a month worth of halfhearted sessions (very) loosely following the BBM beginner program. I did just squat a set of 4 @8 that is ~15lb off of my PB.
About a month ago, I quit my construction job. It was a controversial decision that I know in my heart was the right one, but there are some ramifications. On the one hand, I have all the time I want to train now. On the other hand, the roughly 10 months experience of manual labor caused me to associate physical exertion with something that sucks. It's a chore to get through workouts. I just want them to be over asap, and I'm having trouble being motivated to work hard and put in volume. I need to figure out a way to make this fun again, but the ingrained laziness and the residual aches and pains from tweaks I acquired on the job are major obstacles to achieving that.
I can squat and bench relatively pain free. I feel minor lower back pain/discomfort from any deadlift variant over 225lb. It's not bad enough that I'm not deadlifting, it's just hard to feel pumped about an 60%-of-my-max-RPE-6 set that is effectively @9.5 because of pain. My bench is astoundingly weak for a guy who lifted heavy **** with his arms all day every day for 10 months. My squat is relatively close to what it ever was, and probably how fat I've become is a factor in that.
Probably the biggest detriment to health quitting that job is that I was burning an extra 1000 calories a day than I am now, and I was still slowly gaining weight at the time that I quit. I've made some changes to my diet, but not nearly enough to account for that, and my weight is skyrocketing. I'm approaching my BW personal record (170 at the start of this log) with a weigh in this morning of 165 (!).
There's no excuse for this, and it's just going to take a full-scale lifestyle change. Historically I've been able to achieve steady weight loss (as documented in the early pages of this log). I know what to do, it's just a matter of doing it.
