The other week I alluded that there were lots of things going on in my life. This was impacting on the time I had available for the things I wanted to do, such as writing blog posts, researching technical material for the blog, getting my workouts in and so on. At the time I said [...]
This was a surprisingly good week with no impact on performance despite the five days of walking. It seems like this may be answer to combining my walking and lifting. Plan and results for last week Workout 1: (Saturday) RDL: 90kg – 4×3, 4×2 Kettlebell push press: 16kg – 8×2 with an even smaller jerk [...]
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As I predicted, I didn’t get the second workout done. My squats were going very well on Saturday as were my hip thrusts, however the pay-off for this was glutes that were so sore on Sunday that I could barely sit down. With glutes in that state it seemed foolish to even attempt RDLs and [...]
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I seem to have got to a stopping point in fast progress. By rights I should have hit where I was before my June holiday this week, however my squat isn’t going anywhere and my RDLs are feeling tough too. As far as I can tell this weakness is pretty much restricted to my glutes. [...]
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Last week didn’t quite go to plan. I had a serious case of fatigue, muscle weakness and nausea over the bank holiday weekend which I believe was brought on by over-dosing on magnesium (in an effort to resolve magnesium deficiency). I’ve decided to take a break from the diabetes series this week to provide an [...]
I’m almost there in the project of getting back up to speed with my lifting following my holiday and for the first time this week I felt the need to cut my RDLs down to once a week. I’ve dropped down to two workouts a week following my holiday which has slowed down my recovery [...]
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I’m still getting back up to speed with my lifting following my holiday but I am definitely nearly there – at last. I’ve dropped down to two workouts a week following my holiday which has slowed down my recovery process since there was a lot of lost ground to regain. After all, on my first [...]
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I’m still spending time getting back up to speed with my lifting following my holiday. I’m only doing two workouts a week for the time being and there was a lot of lost ground to regain. After all, on my first squat workout post holiday I found myself squatting the weight and reps that I [...]
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I’m still spending time getting back up to speed with my lifting following my holiday. I’m only doing two workouts a week for the time being and there was a lot of lost ground to regain. After all, on my first squat workout post holiday I found myself squatting the weight and reps that I [...]
Tags:Powerlifting·Training
I’m spending a few weeks (possibly all the weeks I have between now and when I go on the next hiking trip in mid-September!) trying to repair any damage I did on my first workout post holiday and getting my strength back where it was in week twenty-six, just before I went away. Fortunately dropping [...]
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