Things are getting better, back is completely fine after deadlifts today. Energy is still suffering but I'm getting the work done.

 

If I get through next week I'll call that a win 

Squats today went better than expected, based on the past few workouts. Still not 100% though. It's the last week before a deload so just gotta smash it out this week then can have a bit of a rest.

 

How is everyone else going?

rolling on doing mostly the same stuff regular AF at AF

Nice 

Deadlifts done but was kinda heavy. Also pissing rain and freezing cold which adds some variety to the session.

 

As always a thorough shoulder warmup, some light barbell rows to warm up the lats and then some not quite stiff legged deadlifts to warm up the lower back and legs.

 

60kg for 10 reps

100kg for 5 reps

140kg for 5 reps

175kg for 5 reps

200kg for 3 reps

225kg for 1 rep

 

CBF doing any back off work, my fatigue level is through the roof for reasons so will finish off the week and enjoy doing a whole lot of nothing next week.

Apparently I'm still averaging an 1100kcal per day deficit, cos I've lost about 3.3kg in exactly 3 weeks. Pretty sure I'm gonna switch to body building style training next week so I can get enough effective volume in. You can't lift heavy enough to make strength training work in a deficit and I'm happy to keep losing weight, if only to look like a sick carnt when summer rolls around.

you? loosing weight? nice...  

Can't be a fat carnt forever

Fark me I was 118.4kg on the 12th of June and today I'm 113.5kg. Weight is going down like crazy!!! It'll have to slow down eventually but isn't yet.

 

Anyfarkenhow, there's another deload week gone, I didn't do anything this week to hopefully lower my overall fatigue a bit more.

 

I did a slight reset on the weights so I can make some more progress. It's not a lot less, 15kg less on squat, 10kg less on shoulders and bench, 5kg less on deadlift.

 

Being the eternal dumbass, I didn't change my progression from lbs to kg so I was progressing far too quickly. All fixed now so should be better.

 

Also changed my back off sets to 65% and I'll do them for 3x10. More weight and less sets will do for a while.

 

So yerp, still sticking with strength training and have adjusted things to work a bit better.

 

Happy days 

Fail. 25% reset instead and back to madcow 5x5 strength training. Oh well I suppose everything will stabilise eventually.