Hey fellas ... been a little while for me ...
Time to cut some fat so i'm back on low carb for a few months. Shooting for 3mo so i have a month to reverse diet before we head out on the road for Austin and the F1 race.
So in addition to the diet i've been doing hypertrophy for a couple of weeks now.
Today was supposed to be HT arms but my elbow has been a bit naggy since starting HT so i laid off the tricep stuff and only did 2 exercises. Did 5 bicep exercises for a billion reps lol
I started today out by doing 5x5 squats @ 135 and had NO back trouble. So that's super encouraging. The weight felt light (as it should) but the real goal was form and to be pain free by the time it was done. Mission accomplished. I'm planning on doing 5x5 squats twice per week and just taking 20lb jumps per week until i'm back up to repping 405.
Tomorrow is some bench press and some deadlifting. I'm to the place where 500 comes up pretty smoothly every time but I've really been focusing on my DL form so I started doing 5x5 @ 315 last week, shooting to increase by 20lbs/wk. Pulling once from the floor and then once from a 6in rack pull. I've gotten myself a nice little routine going pre-pull and it's helped me a LOT when it comes to locking my lats in and really making the motion about driving my hips through. Excited to see how far this takes me and what i'm pulling by the end of the year.