Monday, November 30, 2015

Speed pulling

Tonight was another good night, however this muggy November weather is giving me a case of the horribles.  I've had pretty bad chest congestion for like two weeks, that's my only symptom.  Congestion and coughing.  It's starting to get on my nerve.  So I got some Mucinex extra strength and took it before I went in. Guaifenesin is the main ingredient so it's kind of a stimulate, so with the high humidity and that in my system I was sweating even more than normal. Got texted to see if I could get in a little earlier to help spot a friend.  I'm helpful like that, that and when you're benching over 450 it's helpful to have someone around you know that can deadlift more than 100 pounds.  Good crew in there tonight, and the guy I usually train with showed up too which was nice, so naturally I punished him with the time between sets of our speed work.  8x2, 315 off the 3" deficit block.  All were done beltless and they all went up pretty speedy, made me feel good. After that dropped the block out just pulled the 315 for a set of 8.  It's funny how big of a difference that block makes, actually standing on the floor it felt like I was damn near doing a rack pull with it.  Did some nice and light bent over rows for reps, heavy yes and nos, and ended with some short stroke behind the head pulldowns.  Haven't weighed myself in a couple of weeks, probably around the 330 mark which is where I need to be right now.  Other things seem to be going pretty good.  Still not really mentioning them in great detail because I'm worried I'll jinx it, but everything kinda seems like it's completely on point right now and that's pretty terrifying.

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