Stronglifts #16

Took an extra rest day, as I went to a Taekwondo class on tuesday night that was rather more taxing than I expected. I really felt it wednesday, and thursday was only slightly better. Did an easy session of TKD forms and light stretching thursday which felt good. Hamstring is behaving itself well, so it’s clean clear to Flag Town.

Today was a cold day, so I spent plenty time warming up. Beginning to enjoy the elliptical, at least it’s a lot better than the treadmill. I still want to go back to the C2 though.

WU: 5 min elliptical, hip/glute/squat stretches. Romanina deadlifts and hang cleans w bar. Overhead squats – I love these, fantastic stretch.

Squat: 1×10x20 – 2×5x40 – 1×5x50 – 1×3x52.5 – 5×5x57.5kg – Lousy form on the first work set improved for the next ones, but sort of collapsed again at the end. This was a workout! And woah, big plates next time!

Overhead Press: 1×10x20 – 1×5x30 – 1×5x35 – 37.5kg 5-5-4-4-5 - Sheesh, this was heavy! Second set every rep was a pain. Third set the first four rep were rather easy but the last one refused to go up. Same thing on the fourth. Fifth went well. Looking at some serious DOMS around the shoulder area tomorrow… This weight is going up next time.

Deadlift: 1×10x20 – 1×5x60 – 1×3x70 -  1×5x75kg – Ok. Good form as well. Had somebody watch me on the 70kg warmup set and everything looked as good as it felt. Really happy about this.

Chin ups: 5×1 – No negatives, and the ohp probably interfered. No chance of a second rep on any of the attempts.

Plank: Miserable failure. Finished one set of 40 seconds then collapsed halfway through the second. Thought f**k it and hit the showers.