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Is whey as expensive as it is in Thailand?
I forget how much I was paying for it when I lived there. Here, I get ON gold standard 5lb for either $69 or $72 depending on the source. Pretty expensive.
Monday, September 25, 2017 Training
Strength Block C3W2
1. Press (kg):
TM47 75%x5, 80%x5, 85%x5+
35x5
37.5x5
40x6 @10 [PR]
{TM+1.5}
2. HBBS (kg):
TM129 4x5 @80%
102.5x5 [rep PR]
102.5x5
102.5x3
(misgrooved 3rd and racked it)
102.5x5 @9.5
{TM-4} (see below)
3. 2ct Pause RG Bench:
w/ Band External Rotations: #0 x16x3
TM73 4x3 @77.5%
56x3
56x2f
56x2 @9.5
52.5x3
Training time: 1:51
***
First, I must celebrate the continued press progress.
Okay now that I've got that out of the way, it's time to lay out some concerns.
1. The 37.5 felt like a warmup set so I think 40 should have gone up more than six times. I plainly am descending too quickly when the weight gets heavy and leaking power because of it. Not the biggest concern, just something I need to address next time.
2. Even though I got to lift a heavier weight for 5, I think going from 100x5,5,5,8 to 102.5x5,5,3,5 is a setback, not progress. Even if I hadn't botched the 3rd set, the RPEs would still have been far too high. I think it all leads to my TM simply being too high for the percentages. I'm supposed to work up to 85%x5+ on Saturday which would be 110x5. Probably not possible. I think I should go for 105 on that day and I should have handled 100 again in today's session. So the TM will be reduced to 124 (105/0.85). By contrast, I think the TMs for my Press and Deadlift are dead-on (naturally, since they're based off real maxes).
3. Today gave me more evidence that my paused triples are too heavy or done in too-close proximity to max effort work. This is kind of a bummer because I don't want to reduce the percentages; I like handling weights in my paused work that are near to what I'll be handling in my main work. Not sure how to solve this one.
4. Last but not least, I think something might be going on with my lower back. During the 4 days off, it felt like my body decided to let me know how much fatigue had accumulated there. Just a lot of soreness and tightness. It felt fine today during squatting but I feel discomfort when I bend over in daily tasks. I actually think it's more likely that my squat is causing an issue there than my deadlift. I pull with a flat back 99% of the time, but I do exhibit a little buttwink in the squat. I think it's too early to tell on this one, but I'm probably going to do a deload in the near future.
Last edited by Renton555; 09-25-2017 at 03:36 AM.