TPower81’s BodyBlog

Like I thought, I weighed in today at 194, down 4 lbs since Monday.  Yesterday I did a no carb day (actually got carbs from almonds but not that many) and I feel a lot more tighter like normal.  I still have a few days to go before the bloat subsides but man…I really feel like I need to tighten the bolts down a bit for a few weeks here.  Too much drinking over weekends.

Tonight I have a happy hour to attend but I’m going to just drink diet coke and make sure I get home at a decent hour.  I was a little excited to be at 198, pushing the 200 barrier for the first time in a while, however, it looks like I’m still a month out from that goal.  Tri-phase is almost over and I’m looking forward to doing another round of german volume training and get some serious hypertrophy going.

Today I really noticed my strength gains.  I was trying to figure out the weight I was going to push on inclined db press and I knew I wanted to get 10 reps.  I started out with 90’s and didn’t have too much problems.  Next set I did 95’s x 10.  Last rep was hard but I got it.  I remember though, when I couldn’t even get 80’s up in the air for the first rep, now I can do 95’s like its a walk in the park.  That made me feel really good!

Likewise, on bent over rows…I used to max out at 205lbs for only 6 reps.  The other day I threw 225 on there and got 10 reps easy.  For six reps I am now in the 245, 255 range.  I used to really lag on this exercise compared to my bench press, but now I’m finally seeing numbers that are evening out!

Some days you really start getting down and thinking you’ve not made much progress.  Its good to sit back, look at your training logs and see that infact you have come quite a long way!