Has been a vicious year, with a lot happening in all facets of modern living for me, culminating in the correction of a severely deviated septum one week ago today.
Trained when my health or circumstances have allowed, with PRs coming regularly enough to keep me as hopelessly addicted to the iron as I have always been. Since the surgery, easier breathing has increased my training levels energy-wise, and it showed up yesterday:
Gripper work: ladders in my usual fashion upto CoC 2.0, for singles L/R for a few ladders. Followed up with choked 2.5 closes. I am losing top-end strength since bottoming out my volume per set, so going back to what has worked for me. Some of us thrive on volume, and for me, singles outside of MP, TGUs, and DLs are useless.
Warm-up: Swing-clean-bent press combos for 10/7/4 rep setups before switching hands. Gets the blood moving. With a 24 kg.
Presses a la RTK: seven ladders of 1,2 with a 16 kg and what I found to be 113 lbs in the other. Curiosity in my difficulties in what was feeling like a very heavy 93 lbs KB turned out to be more than I thought it was. Checked it a few times to be sure. I attach ankle weights to my KBs to make them MORE unstable (keeps my rotators challenged) and must have grabbed the 10s instead of 5 lb weights. Ah well. Not complaining here. Weighing in at 230 lbs, that is a good training weight percentage with KBs.
Deadlifts: weights used from pressing, as per RTK, but going with one-arm lifts with both held in the same hand. Needed a change, and resurrected this gem from my past. 2x20 L/R. Moved a decent amount of iron, and loved it.
Going to resurrect my old training style when I set my pressing PR last year. Google mbunting9999 on YouTube, and you will see what I mean.
That was all. Will be getting back in touch with Josef on the DD forums. Dig up his articles. The man is a mad genius.
Monday, April 26, 2010
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