Let's just get this out in the open: Today's session sucked. My body was all like: "Well, I could lift heavy, but ain't nobody got time for that!"
Bench Press
10x20kg
5x35kg
3x50kg
1x65kg
4x77.5kg
5x77.5kg
3x77.5kg
2x5x70kg -- 5x5x77.5kg did not exactly happen.
CGBP
2x10x40kg
Pull Ups
2x10xBW
2x8xBW
Seated Row
3x10x62.5kg
30x30kg
And then I finished off with some resistance band exercises.
Any notable cause, being back at uni etc. or just a bad day?
ReplyDeleteI dunno. Could be the stress of uni taking its toll on training, could be a bad day, could be that I'm in rep-PR territory for the main lifts and so likelihood of failing is inherently going to be higher, could be all of the above, could be other.
DeletePushing hard all of the time is always inviting failure. I fail somewhere at least once a week, and actually prefer to do that in general. At the time of course I am not happy.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, pushing myself to the point of failure on a lift seems to introduce mental inhibitions the next time I try that weight. I suspect it goes something like this:
DeleteRyan does 10 reps at 60kg and struggles but doesn't fail the last rep.
--> "There you go, I CAN do 10x60kg!"
--> "Let's see what I can do next time!"
--> ????
--> Profit.
vs.
Ryan does 10 reps at 60kg, and then goes for 1 more, but fails.
--> "Oh, it turns out I CAN'T do 11x60kg."
--> "Maybe I'll get it next time? Maybe...? (but deeper down I'm thinking: probably not)"
--> ????
--> Not profit.
In reality, logically I can expect that if I push myself to failure this week, it'll make me stronger next week, and so next week I should be able to lift even more. But I think I get too hung up on it and get stuck worrying about not being able to do it.
The human brain is set up to remember failures more than successes. Great attribute for survival, especially at or natural place on the food chain, not so great nowadays when we are rarely under any serious threat.
ReplyDeleteI am too stupid to listen to that part of my brain. I simply refuse to accept can't a lot of the time, usually with postive results, but occasionally with a reminder that I have to accept it, like on the 555s.