To say that tonight’s workout kicked my booty would be an understatement. This was the last of the 10 rep workouts for the HST.

I tried to get myself mentally prepared for tonight but alas I do believe I have reached my current physical potential at this rep range. Although I would have loved to have performed all of the exercises on the agenda 10 times each; I remind myself that my goal is hypertrophy and not necessarily achieving specific strength marks. I do realize the two do go hand in hand to a certain extent. I think the weight amounts from the last workout and tonight’s workout will be good strength goals or benchmarks for the future.

Like I said, this workout was a killer. I could only complete 10 reps on three of the eight exercises. I went a bit out of order tonight because I really wanted to accomplish benching the 225lbs 10 times. I started with the bicep curls and then went to the bench. I think I now understand what those supplements ads are saying when they talk about “neuro support. Those curls took a lot out of me. Those last two reps had me shaking like I was about to go into convulsions.

For the upcoming 5 rep workouts I have dropped the weight down just a hair. I have included 2 warm-up sets that will be more working sets than actual warm-ups. The reason I am doing this as opposed to specifically striving for higher weight amounts is that tonight’s workout has showed me that I really need to focus on doing good form at these higher weight amounts. With that said, I have never workout consistently with this heavy of an amount of weights. So, nevertheless it is good training for me. Tonight I could feel the heaviness of the weight all up in my joints, spine, testicles, pancreas, liver, spleen, ovaries and uterus. It was a good workout. I anticipate and look forward to the next two weeks.

As always, my workout log is updated in the links section of this blog and open for review and critique. Any feedback is welcome. I have the weights I will be using for the 5 reps listed. I think the two sets prior I will go at 50% then 75% of the stated weight. That is just an idea at this point.

OK, I gots to go: it Mardi Gras time and parades and revelry awaits! Happy Mardi Gras!

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