Today
We’ve had a lot of very fair weather - almost no rain for 2.5 months. This morning it was light rain, hanging mist in the trees, warm, no wind. Actually rather nice. I knew it’d be humid working out so I threw open the garage door and it sure was humid.
Inspired by my friend Slecontev’s FB vids, I decided to add some olympic lifting elements, albeit light. I put on my OLY weightlifting shoes. With the humidity I couldn’t go beyond chest and back, so I might as well return to the split or just go back to 3x/week.
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Comp. WUP - already sweatin’.
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Flat benches - 3×8.
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Seated BB front shoulder press - 2×8. I’m a bit leery about doing these for fear of spinal compression - a very real concern to me because I take prednizone which over time reduces bone density. I can’t do much weight, either, without leaning back against something. So I kept the sets down. Besides, 5 sets of pressing moves is enough considering the other stuff I wanted to do.
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Power cleans - 5×5. I went a bit heavier than of late but still not much weight. The form got a bit sloppy on the heaviest set so I returned to what I used on my first set and it felt very light.
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Power snatches - 3×5. This was my first time doing these in…years. I only used about 35Kgs and worked on form, which I felt was good. The last set felt lighter than the first.
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Bent over rows - 3×8. Doing them very strict.
That was it. I drank 2 bottles of H2O and was sweating bullets and gasping like a stuck pig. Clearly I need to get in better aerobic ship, but then my CNS would’ve suffered a shock.
