Deth

I slept well last night when I slept, but I woke up much too early. I woke up around 3:00 AM and got up to go to the bathroom and take my thyroid pill. Although I went back to bed wide awake for a while thereafter, I was never able to fall asleep. It left me feeling exhausted all day long.

Once I smelled the coffee brewing, any hopes of falling back to sleep were immediately nullified. It smelled too good. Shortly after I first smelled the coffee, I got up and began to drink it. I read Hacker News a bit while I enjoyed my coffee.

Once I was done with my coffee, I went into the basement to move some crap around to make it easier for them to get to the water meter that they wanted to replace. At least it’s dry down there, but it is so dusty, and the low ceiling is annoying, not to mention the feeble lighting. I did hit my head on the massive beam that goes across the ceiling a couple of times, as always. At least my shower felt good after that.

Around mid-morning, I thought I would give my very heavy back squats for this week a try. I had the lowest of hopes, feeling so tired, but I still wanted to get them done. I decided then that I wasn’t going to sweat a fail.

Given the lack of a good night’s sleep, I knew it was going to be a tough day for me in the squat rack when the warm-up set at just a hundred and thirty-five pounds felt heavy as hell. As I slowly built up the weights while warming up, it really wasn’t feeling any better.

Finally, I got to my working sets, and they were tough. The five at two hundred and forty pounds felt really difficult, but manageable at least. The bar felt heavy on my back. Next up was the set of three at two hundred and seventy pounds. That felt nearly impossible, but I made it through with no issues. Just slower reps with little or no pop like I normally get at this weight anymore.

The final AMRAP for today called for one plus reps at a very heavy three hundred and ten pounds for me this morning. I knew it was going to be tough on most days and brutal on days like today, but I still wanted to give it a shot. I wanted to get under a weight that’s near my one rep max weight while feeling rundown like this morning. As I expected, the rep was a fail, but not at a bad weight. I bailed when I probably shouldn’t have. I was still moving up and already past my normal sticking point, and I just mentally gave up. The video shows that my back never gave, nor did my form really break. That’s the important thing for me.

I relaxed for a few hours and even managed to take a nap. I don’t know if I even really slept, but my brain lost some time.

Around midafternoon, I decided that I wanted to get a workout in. Nothing too long or difficult but I wanted to get a WOD for today in, so I dug up an old one with sandbag front squats and double unders. I used my fifty-pound sandbag and fake jump rope and got a decent WOD in. Today was not an all-in-one, at full intensity type of day. It was more about just going through the motions.

Music squats was Deeds Of Flesh