Sunday, August 19, 2018 Training
Bench Press (kg): 20.5x10, 40.5x5, 50.5x5 x2, 50.5x8
Squat (kg): 19x5, 39x5, 59x5, 74x2, 84x2, 84x4, 79x5
Deadlift (kg): 59x5, 79x3, 89x2, 99x5
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Finally made it to the gym after a lapse. I chose my bench press weight well and my squat/dl weights poorly. I just couldn't get a rhythm going on squats. I was probably capable of grinding out 84x5x3 if my form and setup had been on point. I'm considering adding the belt and sleeves early; there's some nocebo happening since I had the tiny back tweak during that warmup set last workout.
Deadlift might have been fine but a gym staff got on my case for dropping weights and I was self conscious about my noise from then on. The 99 set was way harder than it should have been.
My biggest weakness right now is nutrition. I no longer have free food and grocery options suck here. I'm probably going to have to overpay for whey and supplement a lot to hit decent protein marks.
In rare good news, Team Renton now has micro-plates!
One of my friends is leaving town so I bought her adjustable dumbbell set. As it doesn't use Olympic plates, I had to ghetto rig keychains to fix them to the barbell. They don't wobble as long as they're placed next to a plate. There are four 0.5kg and two 1.25kg. That the 1.25s aren't 1s and the 0.5s not 0.625s deeply offends my OCD sensibilities, but I'll cope.