Holy Soreness!

So it took me a couple of hours to get to the gym yesterday. I was totally procrastinating all morning. After 3 cups of coffee I finally felt ready to head out, and I must say I had quite the diesel gym session. I even broke a PR in deadlifts!!!!!!

To be honest, my focus and energy level started out crappy but once I did a few warm up sets of deadlifts, I felt much more energized.

Deadlifts:

45X8

95X8

175X5

175X5

165X6

135X7

One hand dumb bell rows:

25X8

27.5X8

30X8

I underestimate my own strength way too much. If I am able to get 8 reps with 30 lbs on the 3^rd set, I am going way too light. I need to start at 30lbs next time, hell maybe even 35 lbs next time.

I finished off with “farmer walks.”

I held a 45lb dumb bell in each hand and walked across the gym twice. My forearms were exhausted at this point, I barely made it back the second time.

My back is friggen’ destroyed today, but I feel SO accomplished. According to the scale, I didn’t lose “weight” this week, but I gained strength. I would rather take gains in strength than loss in “weight” any day of the week.