Ok! So my son was a pain in the butt again last night, but again, I really can’t complain. It’s painfully cute and it makes me happy to snuggle with him at night. That said, it does make actually sleeping a little challenging as I end up halfway off the bed somehow. At just barely 19lbs, he’s already pushing me around – this does not bode well for the future!
Anyway, I woke up at 4:30am as per usual, and got myself ready. I was feeling particularly ill-used as I got in my second BJJ class of the year last night, but that also means I’m going to be getting a significant fatiguing effect on my morning workouts the next day, which is what happened. I went down to the garage to do deadlifts and seated overhead pressing as planned. Deadlifts weren’t terrible, honestly, they felt pretty good. I did every working rep from a deadstop for the most part and that adds a certain challenge to the movement. Another huge challenge is that everything in my garage is coated in a thick coat of saw dust. My garage is also my workshop, and since it’s been so cold we’ve been doing more work indoors than I would like. I haven’t had a chance to install any kind of dust collection system or exhaust into the space, so when we need to cut anything, we just blow saw dust all over the place.
It isn’t usually so bad, but we did a lot of work the past few days and it accumulated very quickly since Monday’s workout. So I ended up probably inhaling my fair share of sawdust while training and that wasn’t helping.
In addition to all of this, I managed to tweak my neck (again!) last night, but this time it was while trying to shower. Please don’t laugh at me, but this definitely happens far more frequently than I care to admit to right now.
Anyway, like I said, deadlifts went ok, grip was really the only issue that I was having aside from the saw dust. I ended up getting 7 easy reps with 295. I definitely had more in the tank from a total body perspective, but my hands were just hurting, so I called it there. I’m thinking about whether or not I want to start incorporating straps into my deadlifting training. My grip is taxed plenty from BJJ, and that’s probably part of the reason that it was so weak today, but at the same time, getting my grip stronger will always be a good thing. Anyway, I’ll have to think about it.
My neck was causing severe issues with my overhead pressing and it was just pure agony while trying to get through the warm-ups. Did a set of 5 at 85 and just called it there, I couldn’t do anything comfortably and it just felt like I was going to tweak it worse if I kept on trying to go up in weight. It’ll probably be back to normal in a couple of days, these things tend to resolve themselves pretty quickly, so I’ll just re-do this workout on Friday.
This weekend is going to be all about cleaning up the garage. There’s an absolute metric shit ton of saw dust all over the place, plus with the winter cooling everything down outside, we’ve seen an influx of spiders and a massive increase in spider webs everywhere in the basement. So we’re definitely going to want to do something about that as well.
Anyway, thanks for reading! Hopefully, I’ll be able to put out some real content rather than just these rambling journal entries in the next few days.
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