My second workout this week went stormingly well. It was probably because we had a lunchtime training session at work and I had a big helping of all sorts of rubbish (they had some delicious fish goujons and had massively over-catered, so I must have eaten an entire fillet of fish-worth of these breaded fish [...]
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Not a bad week. The Hepburn hip thrusts were helpful as I could feel my form improving as I went through the sets – the lower reps gave me the opportunity to concentrate on the form. On the other side of the achievement line the push presses got stuck – sets of three was too [...]
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I’m beginning to feel like my lifting is getting back where it should be at last. I’m back into the world of tweaking to ensure good form. Plan and results for last week Workout 1: (Sunday) RDL: 90kg – 6×3, 2×2 – Completed with no problems RDL: 70kg – 3×8 – I struggled with this [...]
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I was a bit off-colour at the start of the week. I think it was probably exhaustion caused by lots of travelling, late nights and early starts for the second half of the previous week, topped off by a very long and busy day in London on the Saturday. I should have realised it would [...]
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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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