Log - Fri., 8/13/10

Workout:

weights - 5/3/1 Cycle 2 Day 11

power clean, 135 - 3x3
squat, 5/3/1
 - 215x5
 - 245x3
 - 275x5 (321 - PR)

Comments:

I was looking forward to this workout all day.  I got up at 5:30 to do it, was dressed and headed out the door when I heard by oldest son calling - "I'm gunna frow up."  He did, and we watched Curious George cuddled up for an hour while everyone else slept.  It was actually nice to have a little one-on-one time with him.

So I thought about squatting all day.  I knew my AMRAP set used my previous 1RM, from only seven weeks ago.  I wanted two reps, and I thought I had three in me.  So I made a deal.  If I got three, I'd do my RDLs and go home.  In the gym, I felt good, so I added on to the deal, and said that if I got five, I'd just go home.

I got three.  I went for four and got it, but didn't think I had another rep in me.  In one of those leaps of faith every lifter has to take when he's squatting alone with a lot of weight, I just said, "Fuck it" and went for it.  It was slow, but I got the fifth rep.  And now I'll lift for another month getting energy from memory of that rep.  There is nothing more empowering than beginning a squat rep you really don't know you can finish, and then finishing it.