Exerbabble for 3-12-6

Ah, exerbabble. With the goals I had given myself for this week, I was nervous about living up to them. Once again, I reminded myself, “Just relax and you’ll feel awesome by the time you’re done.” It was a slow morning. The Y doesn’t open until noon, so I was kind of left not sure of what to do with myself. Gotta work on moments like that where I’m just waiting.

Today’s workout:

Added ten pounds to my squat again, and was able to handle it just fine. Given the volume of the entire workout, I dropped the reps down to 6 per set. High weight, low reps? Doing over my bodyweight felt fine, I still felt in control of the weight. It was still a challenge, but I know I can do more weight at this time.

I was starting on my second set of deadlifts when I felt a pressure at the top of my right hip. So I stopped. I want to call it a tweak, but it’s only when I was going through that movement. No pain, just. I could feel something. So I stopped. Deadlift form is not something you want to fuck around with.

Later on, I saw a guy doing deadlifts on the opposite rack. It happens to be too compressed an area, as you end up stepping out onto the track. Hence why I picked the one I did. I saw him later doing squats. His deadlift was over 140. His squat was around 100. I scratch my head. It’s not even like he was getting more depth than me. Why can I squat so much more than I can deadlift? Form. It’s gotta be my form. *shrugs*

One rep ever so short from doing 4×6 pull-ups. In two days, I’ll do it.

Finally hit 4×6 @ 65 lbs. I’m feeling more in control of the weight. All the way down, all the way up. Two days, I will try for 4×7.

Will aim for 3×8 on my bench press in two days. Assuming I hit that, I’ll increase to 90 lbs then reset to 3×6.

I did some freeweight back extentions after finishing everything, to make sure my back was okay. Felt just fine. Did some leg stretches, then spent some time on the groin torture machine. Grawr, SPREAD MY LEGS.

I’m almost finished with the second of two burgers. Hey, it’s food.

Sunday. I have an eye appointment on Wednesday. I need to make the most of this time, or I’ll waste away. This is an opportunity and all that junk. I haven’t been to Chevy’s in a while. I should take Cliff there, and whoever else wants to cum. I mean come. Whoops. We should play more board games. That was relaxing.

Beyond that, I can’t think of what else to do with myself. I’m just not a very exciting person. I get scared easily. Meh.

Well. On the plus side, at least I can stop bitching about my room. I have a floor!

I need to smile more. It’s.. hard. It feels fake. It didn’t used to be so hard. I could turn it on for the camera.

I’ll figure something out, or default trying. (Maybe I need a new default.)

Indeed. I did.

Wow. 145 pounds is a lot.

If you do a couple of warm-up sets with lower weights, I’ll bet you could lift even more. And squats have a lot to do with center of gravity. I’d bet yours is just different than his.

Warm-up sets are just sets with low weights, sometimes even just the bar. They shouldn’t tire you out, if they do, lower the weight. They should allow you to lift *more* weight on your main sets. If it doesn’t work for you, don’t worry about it. Just thought I’d mention it as something to mess around with. There is no *one way* to do this stuff. It’s about learning what works for your body.