Lately, Saturday programming has been crushing my soul. When I looked at what was on the agenda for today, I instantly dreaded it. I have not been mentally in a place where I am wanting to push the heavier weights in training. When I am at home or driving in the car, I will start thinking about training and get amped.
“Let’s ramp things up and really start pushing. Time to get serious.”
All things that run through my head. Until I walk into the gym.
Maybe it is being there at 4am. Maybe it is being tired. Whatever the reason, when I am there at the gym, I am not ready to really go all out like I used to. That feeling coupled with having less weight on the bar (lower bodyweight aside) has been a defeating combination for me.
This is now day 5 of week 2 in block 4. Since starting this program, I have not pulled 415 for reps. My squats have not felt all that great either. The other movements are not typically anything that would crush me, but everything together in a day tends to wear me down and I usually feel pretty beat up the following day.
When I got to the gym this morning, it felt as if I never left from the day before. On Friday night, the gym hosted the 21.3 & 21.4 Open workouts and I went to hang out and take some photos. For some reason, there are always tons of boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts at any of our events. There were two boxes left over and sitting on the front desk when I opened up this morning. Normally I am very strict about what I have before and during a training session. I have a banana on the way to the gym along with preworkout (Yea, yea, I know) but only have water during training. I tried a different warm-up from Juggernaut to get more prepared for deadlifts. I am not sure why, but I went over and had a donut. Perhaps because nobody was looking. I am not sure. And that first one tasted so good that I went back about 15 minutes later and had another.
What I realized was that my training session felt volumes better. The top set of deadlifts was nowhere near as hard as I was expecting. The dropsets at 360 were easy. I figured the wheels would come off once I got to the back squats, mainly because I hate doing both of these movements in the same day. Even the squats felt great and I was working at the top end range given to me from the program. Everything felt great. I didn’t have the “pit in my stomach” feeling that I have had lately and it makes me wonder if it is because I had something to eat during my workout.
As much as I love donuts, it isn’t going to be a great idea to have them during each training session. I am going to look for some non-flavored carbs and a little bit of protein that I can have to mix in and see how that impacts training moving forward. This was the first day in forever that I felt this good and was also able to work at or above prescribed ranges.