Training Log: Entry 2390

DEEP WATER INTERMEDIATE Week 4, Workout 1

AM WORKOUT (0315 natural wake up)

Texas deadlift bar touch and go deadlifts (3:50 between sets)
7x11x410lbs
12x410
11x410

Box jumps (60 seconds between sets)
5x10

Reverse hyper/standing ab wheel
2x30x360/20

POST WORKOUT SHAKE

CONDITIONING

Buffalo bar squats (285)-chins-dips
15-5-10

Time: 6:55

Notes: I went through the stages of grieving leading up to this workout, starting with anxiety as soon as I finished the squat workout last week, bargaining as far as how I was going to break up the sets, anger over how much it was going to hurt, and then a very blissful acceptance that soon turned into a calm, focused battle frenzy.  My "trick" stays the same here: if I treat it like it's not a big deal, my body will respond.  It's only when I start acting like it's heavy that it becomes heavy.  So with that, I held my breath through the first 8 reps of the first 7 sets and focused on locking out as hard and fast as possible, as though it were a warm-up.  Set 8 is when the hurt set in, which is why I pulled 12 on that set: I had to go from touch and go to rest pause after 10 reps, so I figured I'd get the "big set" done then.  Made the final set a bit easier to swallow.

However, upon taking my shower and noticing all the blown out blood vessels across my body, some things can't be hidden from the body...

After that, I was totally annihilated and slept walked my way through the box jumps.  The reverse hypers gassed me, which is definitely a sign of something.  That conditioning workout at the end was a slog, and right in the middle of it I realized I still owed some Tabata KB squats and a Tang Soo Do class today.

I got the day off work, I'm spending it with my kid, we're gonna watch "Sonic the Hedgehog 2", and somewhere along the line calories will be put away.

I'm honestly in a bit of post training euphoria.  There is no ennui with the deadlift workouts this time around: hitting this in the morning is a whole different animal than the afternoon, and I'm definitely finding new strength in myself.