Wow – what a difference 1/2 a day makes

Weird – immediately after my bench workout earlier today, I was all shaky and feeling drained.

However progressively through out the day I have been feeling my energy/power returning to my body. It feels kinda like my muscles are itching internally and I have been really restless. Anyways this got to the point earlier this evening where I was just pacing up and down the living room. Never felt like this before, so wasn’t sure what to do. So I made the call to hit the gym in an attempt to burn some of this energy off.

Turned out to be a good decision, I can’t remember the last time I trained twice in one day but as a one off it really worked. I guess it’s best to go with the flow and listen to your body and my body was telling me it was ready to motor.

Final week of phase 2 on back, so it was max reps on 140kg and I hit 6 decent reps. Considering my illness and I was only doing 5 reps before, this was decent progress. Who knows, if I hadn’t been sick, I may have even done 7 or 8 reps??

All the other exercises went really well too.

Bent over rows
60kg x 8
80kg x 5
110kg x 3
140kg x 6

Barbell Shrugs
60kg x 10
100kg x 5
140kg x 5
160kg x 8

Curl grip pulldown – just wider than shoulder width
35kg x 10
70kg x 6
100kg x 12

Ultra wide grip cable row with pulldown bar
35kg x 8
50kg x 6
75kg x 15

Onwards and upwards now – skipping the deload and starting phase 3 next week! The programme is set out below

Week 1, Phase 3

Bent Rows
Warm ups
100kg x 5
115kg x 5
130kg x rep max (just shy of failure)

Week 2, Phase 3

Bent Rows
Warm ups
107.5kg x 3
122.5kg x 3
137.5kg x rep max (just shy of failure)

Week 3, Phase 3

Bent Rows
Warm ups
115kg x 5
130kg x 3
145kg x rep max (to failure)