tday and last day of deload week in the current cycle.

i did deloaded squats and bench: 45/50/55. went fine and i put mr t on notice that for the next cycle i want to repeat the last weights on the upper-body lifts. he 'commended' me for wanting this, so copacetic all round.

three eccentric pullups, some light waiter walks and another 8 turkish getups with a 5lb plate. nice to get a few form reminders from mr t too. haven't really done them for a couple of days and nice to feel like i've definitely gotten both stronger and more fluid since the very first set i did two weeks ago now. still seeing tgu as a keeper movement.

i can't believe we're barely more than two weeks into july. i'm living in a different time frame these days.

did day 1 of 5's week. overdid it, of course. always happens if i get my butt in gear after lazing around all day long.

- deadlift 115/125/145, or something like that. definite 145 at the end but i just can't remember the right weights these days when i get into the gym. i accidentally did a real deadlift workout instead of the 10-15 light reps i had intended to do, because i can't brain. got 5 reps but didn't try for anything more. dissatisfied with my form, got it together in hindsight later, of course. sorry now that i didn't just stay at around 100 and do 10-15s of the more pure form, but ain't gonna go back there and do them now.

one thing of note with the deadlifts: gym has yet more even snazzier 'spacer' plates - that's what i call them anyway. the plastic ones that have the same size as 45's but are much lighter. the new things are SO visibly plastic i actually thought they'd diversified and found some that weighed nothing at all. as in: 'cool, they have 10lb trainer plates but if even 65 is more than someone new wants to pull, now they can still be the right mechanics and be pulling only the bar.'

except i actually looked at them when i was putting them away, and they're 10lbs too. the thing is, i was holding the bar with one hand and using barely the fingertips of my other hand to take these ones off and move them somewhere, and i still didn't register that they do have weight. they felt like hollow plastic to me. strong fingers are strong.

- squats adk, 75/85/95, i guess. couldn't remember the numbers for this one either so i just started with two sets at 45 and then added 10s until i was pretty sure i had hit whatever this week's requirements were. they were actually 65/80/90, now that i've come home and looked them up. fine with only getting 5 on this lift as well, given that.

extras:
turkish getups with 3lb and then with 8lb kettlebell NOT just slung over my wrist. held by the handle with the base facing the ceiling. a little bit of row/pull work but not very authentically. 3x8 ohp with the bar, because i want as much form correction as i can give myself for the press. and waiter carries with one of those same 10lb plates not just over my head but actually balanced on my fingertips as if they were a tray.

so i feel great, but i'm going to suffer like crazy tomorrow. just remembered my own eat-something-that-grew-on-a-plant rule for after workouts, so off to try and break into an orange right now. think i'll use a screwdriver or something, i feel too weak to manage it all by myself.