comments/rant before i say my workout.... my headphones broke, so i was forced to lift without headphones. Not only was i MUCH weaker on deads than i was 2 weeks ago (last time i deadlifted cuz of vacation), but i also had to endure hearing the entire gym's bullshit today while deadlifting and doing all my other shit. a few things i couldn't help but be irritated about were:
- a man on the tredmill literally commentating the entire USA/Brazil game. If this was mens soccer, i would have pushed my workout back and watched the game. However, whoever the fuck gets into women's soccer, or any sport where humans with vaginas are the players to the extent that he did, is immediately deemed both an idiot and an annoying fuck in my book.
- a man lifting with a trainer, who kept doing exercises near me. He counted every rep, 1-50, on all bullshit machines, and the trainer told him that to deadlift, you have to pickup the bar and "focus on the negative motion, not the positive motion." i don't know how that's possible, but the trainer said it.
- another dude with a trainer who was severely overweight. he said he lost 3 pounds, and proceeded to talk about it to the trainer the whole time during his 25 set cable rows. he also had to grunt during the cable rows because doing them while weighing 275+ pounds on the 5th lightest weight is challenging.
- have you ever tried listening to top 40 songs while deadlifting? during my deadlifts, taylor swift and country were playing. I did everything i could to get motivated, literally everything... thought of girls i used to like, how much of a pussy i'd be if i didn't lift the weight, and other shit, but the music and background talk was overwhelming and demotivating.
- in addition to this, some fucking kid asked me to work in during deadlifts. I consider myself to be one of the most polite people in a gym among idiots; i always let people work in, i always take the weights off the bar, i offer spots when i see people need them, and i take time out of my workout to help friends who ask me for advice. This dude took two 30 pound dumbbells, and did 40 sets of burpees with them in my DL spot when he could have done them ANYWHERE else.
anyways, my workout today wasn't great, but wasn't too bad. my DL got so much weaker, grip sucked compared to where it was 2 weeks ago. quality of reps wasn't nearly as good as 295x4 last DL workout, which was easy.
Deadlift
275x2
280x2
285x2
290x2
Front Squat (barefoot after 1st set, much better, all easy sets)
95x5
115x5
135x3
135x3
135x3
135x3
i did standing calves/leg press calves, but don't remember the reps i did.
also did a set of leg curls, but felt like a huge vag so i'm replacing them with weighted hypers as assistance work to my DL.
i need to have music to do bulgarians with the intensity i do them with, and the rack area was so crowded i just did leg press for 4 sets.
finished with abs.
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