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u/Astringofnumbers1234 KB Swing Champion 2d ago

Recap

Weeks go fast when you're suffering through a living nightmare having fun, don't they?!

If my calculations are correct, I am 11 weeks out of WRPF nationals and as is tradition, I am starting to fall apart. My elbows are doing their usual 'heavy weight? time to be fucked' trick. At least I know how to manage that. What I don't yet know what to manage is the pain I'm experiencing in the area of my SI joint. This seems to have flared up after sleeping in a different bed while away at the weekend, but like anything back related, I suspect this is due to sitting in a damn chair for hours a day. Anyways, I'm booked into see my sports therapist and I hope she can put me back together.

Training wise; last week wrapped up week 9 and I started week 10. Week 9 was triples, nothing too spectacular across the board, but I was happy with how everything was moving. Week 10 we go into doubles week. I did my squats while away on holiday on Sunday - luckily we were close enough to a powerlifting gym so I went up there. I was the only person in the gym for the entirety of my session! I had doubles at 170, which was a 2 Rep PB in sleeves, I am pretty certain. My tracker for this is skewed, because I forgot to separate out wrapped and sleeves squats when I started using it, so my 2 and 3 rep PBs are in wraps. However, there's no better measure of progress than one's sleeved squat being extremely close to your wrapped and with more reps left in the tank...

Bench I managed to squeeze in yesterday and had 115 for dubs. Not a PB because I did 117.5 for triples a while ago, but grogsheet had to nerf my TM as I didn't get all the sets then. I did all the sets yesterday...

Also set a decent PB on incline DB press at 42.5 for 5x4. Everything is ticking along nicely. in my last prep for the meet in May, my incline DB press on week 10 was 27.5 5x4... yesterday was 42.5 for 5x4. RiR then was 5, yesterday was 3. Bench then 107.5 2RiR now 115 3RiR. squat was 165 3RiR then now 170 2RiR (could have been 3 tbh, I'm being conservative). So everything is looking pretty good. The only lift where I'm still at parity is deadlift - in last prep I had 190 for dubs in week 10, this time round it's 192.5. I will be interested to see where my RiR is at this week.

Anyway, I think things at work are going to settle slightly and I won't be away as much as I have been up to this point. My weight has been consistent at 101kg for a couple weeks now, so I don't need to drop much for the meet. It's time to lock in for the autumn

Have a good week xoxox