After a few days out of the gym, I geared up for a big day of work. I wasn't necessarily feeling as rested/well as I should after 3 days off. My nutrition has remained solid but I don't think I got over 6.5 or 7 hours of sleep on any one of the nights and today, I was feeling the effects of inadequate sleep. Went after it anyway. I started with some strength work. Today it was press followed by squats. I was aiming for 3x5 with a max effort x5 on the last set of each lift. My lifts looked as follows:
Press
-5 x 135
-3 x 155, 4x pushpress
-3 x 155, 4x pushpress
Overhead Squat
-5 x 155
-5 x 175
-3 x 185
Front Squat
-5 x 185
-5 x 205
-5 x 225
Back Squat
-5 x 225
-5 x 245
-5 x 255
Wasn't feeling my strongest today for sure but was still pretty productive. My press started off strong but then I failed on set's #2 and 3. So I finished each one with double reps on the push-press. My set of 175 on the overhead felt strong. At 185, I felt exceptionally strong through my core which was a good feeling but my shoulders and arms gave out at the bottom of rep 4. It's still rapidly improving. My front squat was what it was, same with the back squat. Both seemed way too hard for the weight that was on the bar but I continue to get deeper than I ever have before and am getting stronger at the bottom so I'll take it.
Finished the day with a thruster/double-under met-con for time. It was 5 rounds for time of the following:
-21 thrusters, 75#
-21 double-unders
time=11:41
Not much to say about this one. I stunk up the gym. Was completely gassed after the 2nd round. It was awful. I'll definitely look to get an abundance of sleep in the next 2 days and try to regain energy. Today I just didn't have it. Still a good day none the less.
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