19 November 2014
Wed. "Light Night"
I missed Monday's volume day due to a stomach bug and work commitments taking too much of my life right now. I was tired and with the tummy I thought it better to not risk an accident at the gym.
The work stuff is killing my motivation at the moment which really sucks. I have a couple more weeks of good lifting before heading to Melbourne and I need the work.
I spent 5 hrs today driving to Christchurch and back for a meeting and tomorrow I have to do it again for another meeting. Just more crap getting piled on me at work that I have to deal with.

Tonight there were kids playing in the rack so I started with some back extensions and cable pull throughs before I finally got to the rack.
I also changed up my deadlifting to work on the bottom of the lift.

Back extensions - done hugging a 20kg plate using the preacher curl bench. Good to get the back moving and start to loosen up.

Cable pull throughs - trying to get a good stretch on the back and hammies with these by not bending the knees too much and reaching way back. I am thinking that this might be the way to start all of my sessions. I need the back work and sometimes I skip the cables when the machine is busy. Earlier it might be easier to get the machine.

Front Squats - still holding at 120kgs. I am thinking that when I reset the program I might look at how these get programed. I'll keep them in but I might move them to a ladder progression instead of multiple sets.

Half Deads - done off of a one plate deficit. Instead of doing full deadlifts I lifted to the knees or just above and put the weight back down. Rack pulls showed me that the top of my deadlifts are good (multiples reps at 190kgs) but I need to work on the bottom and get the lower back stretched out. I think this is one way to get there.

I am going to watch a club lifting comp this weekend and support my association. I'm not lifting because in a few weeks I m competing and it is not the time to be maxing out hard. I am going to talk to some of the other lifters about my deadlifts and see what advice they come up with. Could be interesting.