bradl’s weight training

Yesterday was back and biceps. After the discouraging conclusion I made from my body weight and fat percentage, yesterday afternoon I was debating whether to just bail on the workout, what’s the point?, but did it anyway. Added another 5 pounds to the bar for 5 work sets of 7reps deadlifts, then 3sets each of lat pulldowns, cable rows, EZ-bar curls, and hammer curls with the weight I thought I could handle for ~ten reps per set. This was a new mix of back exercises this week, so didn’t exactly know the weights needed for this combination. I don’t know if I can add another 5lb for deadlifts next week. My back was wearing out.

This week Ledford sent his progression spreadsheet for the Bill Starr program to me, so I played with idea last night. Instead of using five sets of progressively increasing sets, it’s now two warmup and three work sets, per Kubik’s plan, and kept the 2.5%-per-week weight increase. I haven’t done weight increases that consistently before either. I try to increase the weight when I can, but those increases are not common. I have the fractional plates to make small increases, but haven’t used them. I still have to work out the details of what I will have time for in a session and buy the sand… and think about packing for the trip. Ugh.

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