Training -- Thur 19/12/2013 and Fri 20/12/2013

Thursday

Rotator Cuff/Band Pull Apart

2x12xOrange/12xOrange

Bench Press

10x20kg
5x40kg
3x60kg
3x70kg
5x80kg

CGBP/Pull Ups

--/6x10kg
3x6x60kg/6x10kg

Incline DBBP/Barbell Row

10x20kg/3x60kg + 5x40kg -- Attempted 60kg and the weight was definitely too heavy for me to do anything useful with it. Sure, I could get the bar from the floor to my torso, but don't let that fool you into thinking my reps at that weight added any value to my training.
2x10x20kg/10x40kg

Friday

Long day. From about 10am-4pm I was out getting in touch with nature or something. After NTE the other week, a few of us got together for what was specifically termed the "post NTE thing." This involved cooking over a wood-fire (putting my totally legit Masters in Barbecuology to good use), lengthy, in-depth theological discussions, and about 2hr45min of bush walking/mountain climbing, occasionally broken up to look at Aboriginal paintings and stone surfaces or kill cain toads. At about 5pm, I finally made it to the gym, where it was so hot that I think I was suffering mild heat exhaustion right up until the sun went down.

Front Squats

10xBW
10x20kg
5x40kg
3x60kg
3x70kg
3x3x80kg

Back Squats

3x6x100kg -- What I believe was heat exhaustion meant that every time I walked up to the bar to start a set, I felt no more ready for it than I had felt at the moment of re-racking the previous set.

Deadlift

10x60kg
5x100kg
2x140kg
1x160kg
1x170kg -- And then, after this set, the sun made its may over the horizon. Suddenly, in time for my next set, I was alive-awake-alert-enthusiastic, instead of the zombie I had been for the previous 90min.
5x150kg
4+1x150kg -- I did my first 4 reps, and then my chalk failed due to too much sweat, and the bar was like: "lol no, I don't do this whole breaking off the floor thing." So I rechalked and then got right back into it for the last rep.