Once i heard the Guru on television dissing the idea of warming up and stretching before working out. His thought was that lions don't stretch before they take off at 35mph chasing down a zebra, ergo the warmup is superfluous. That was just before he took off swimming across Manhattan Bay or some place hauling 70-some boats to commemorate his 70-somethingth birthday. i scoffed, with images of ruptured quads. But there is a tiny possibility i got it all wrong.
On saturday i got shut down on a v3. i was climbing like a septic platypus, but it was a v3. i worked the finish out finally, but i was too tired to send. That sort of failure haunts my dreams. So i sloped off to the gym last night after work with the intent of crushing and leaving. i untucked my shirt, cracked my knuckles, and send i did. But i didn't leave. i thought i'd ride the wave a li'l further. Retro-flashed a v4ish thing i'd totally floundered on last go round. Then re-sent a v5ish thing and another couple of v3s. Then i went downstairs and got that v6 again. All without any serious arm-swinging or a pre-route pullup. Maybe Jack had it right after all. But i didn't get to shoulders. Planning on doing that tonight. If it works out, i might have just bumbled onto a climbing cycle that actually fits into the iron schedule. That'd be just fine.
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Toozdy:
Yessiree, Bob! This just might work! That was an odd workout. 5/3/1 day on overhead press. So i did my 30 or so with just the bar to get the blood flowing, then i put 135 on to warm up. i totally spaced what lift i was doing. Cranked out 5, then looked at my paper. S'posed to be 120, 140, and 155. So i added on the five mo' lbs and did the set of 3. Then i figured i'd stay consistent and not max, 'cuz i wanted to rep out and make it hurt on the last set. Ended up getting 4 with the 155 (which did, indeed, hurt). Then i thought i'd try to max anyhow 'cuz why not?--i was already toasty and had nothing to lose. So i got 170 for a new pr. And i'm gunna say that was as heavy as i could'a gone right then. i got the bar halfway up, and stalled. Nearly lowered it, and i thought What are you doing?! It's nearly there. Just keep pushing you sad moron! and it crept up to the lockout. That's a pretty happy feeling. And thanks for the cheering there, bro. i needed that. :-)
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I can't say I've ever followed Lalane, but he do have a point. I don't ever warm. I usually blame it on a lack of time, but really I'm just lazy and I hate warming up. I probably average about four-five sets before my working sets and very minimal stretching. But I've never had a single injury in the gym. I think that could be accredited to not being tired as hell by the time I start trying to lift near maximal weights.
Bloody good job on the new PR! Now you've gotta do the workouts that come along with it, hehehe.
Yeah. 5/5/5 day should be a party in a box.
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