Thanks Giving

'Nuther week of cathin' up. They let me off for Thanksgiving, so i squashed my workouts into monday and tuesday. Made for an odd hybrid. i'd already missed my bench workout from the week before, so i mashed it in with OH press for an interesting shoulder day. Really didn't go so badly. Got a new PR of 160 on OH press. 'Least, i think it was a PR. i know i've got 155 before, but i don't remember doing 160. So i'll happily tell me it's a PR. i could use one. It was 5/3/1 with 120, 135, and 150, and i got 2 or 3 with 150 so i put 10 more on, and it went. Don't think i could'a pushed more than that though.

Bench actually went ok. Ish. Supposed to be the 5/3/1 week of the workout, but 'cuz i'd missed bench, it was still the 3/3/3. 185, 200, and 210. i sorta got 'em all, but i fudged the last rep with 210. Wasn't sure i could get it back up, so i didn't take it all the way to my chest.

Tues i did back work. Started out swimmingly. Pullups it was 5/3/1 with 75, 85 and 95. That went easily enough, so i thought i'd max and i locked one out with 110. That's not a PR, but it's been many a moon since i've pulled that. And i weighed at the office earlier that day, and (fully dressed) i was was almost 205lbs. So i can't attribute pulling more weight to my having lost any--i'm fat as ever. Then i did SL deads, and it was too soon since the last workout. i hurt my back. Funny thing too: did an excruciatingly long warmup replete with stretching, but i just wasn't healed. Just got set up for my first set of 4 with 275, and i stood up with the bar off the rack and felt m' back lock down. So i set the weight right back on the rack, stripped the bar and went home. Walked like a 90yo guy the next day, but i don't think i damaged it too bad. But that workout uses so many small agonists, through such terrible vectors, there's just no half-assing it. (No pun intended). Kinda bummed, 'cuz i couldn't do BB rows, which i really dig. But they require a lot of low-back, and i'd dispensed with all of that.

i'm otherwise at a crux. i could only afford this gym for 1 month, but i'm there for 6 weeks. (It was, i think, $50 for a month, then like $35 or so for 1 week). So i don't really have time for a deload week. i definitely will do only rehab on the low-back for a week, but i want to get some damage done to my lats and chest before the meter tuns out.