5's week, idk about this . . .

i did ohp today, but hadn't checked my weights beforehand so i got them all messed up. (they were 50/55/60). i know i did 5x45 and 5x55. i may have done 5x60, but i'm not sure. all this was out on the floor so i was cleaning the bar for each set. then i moved into the rack and tried 65 because i hadn't cheecked on my weights. none of that going on, although i think i got two of them.

then i did squats. still on the 'just find a form that is kosher and causes no pain' wagon here. i did pretty well with front squats, actually. i was doing pretty well with back squats, too, in between. and then something went bad in one knee so i took a long long break, re-tested it without weight and gave up. i can get into the hole on it. i just can't get out again so i'm hoping i quit in time.

i rode home and that seems to be fine. walking around on it and that seems to be fine. i'm terrified to go googling and find out what i might have done. maybe if i just go to bed and pretend that it didn't happen i'll wake up fine and it won't have.

le sigh.

jowaring wrote: »

Today's workout
Squats 5x5 @67 lb.
Bench 6x5 @60LB. did an extra set as finding it hard to add weight.
Rows 55544@60lb.

oh yeah, that reminds me . . . i was going to say that i went to the gym and didn't do anything much, but then i remembered that i did do my bench press. so check this. this girl benched 80 pounds for five reps today.

bench 60/70/80 wasn't even that hard. i thought it was going to be after the middle set, but the first rep was fine, the second rep was fine . . . last one a tiny bit of a fight, but that's all.

deadlift 105/120/140 meh. these felt heavier than i want them to feel, but

it's 5's week, by the way.

i still can't get anywhere that isn't harmful with squats. had a long and really nice talk with the attendant/trainer i actually like, the guy with the beautiful squats who asked me recently how come i never add weight. we nattered about all the various options and styles and i got a little form check, but the fact is my butt-wink is almost invincible and the only solution that seems to work properly gets me in the i.t. band right now.

well, i didn't lift, but i spent the whole day doing various hip-rehab things instead. it does feel much much better, but i decided that now i'm on the path to recovery i might as well go the whole way, or at least another day's worth of further . . . rather than going back and squandering all my progress immediately. kind of like when you take penicillin and the first two pills kill 80% of the germs but you still have to take the other 13 to chase down the other 20%.

boring self-absorbed part:

there's a tfl stretch on upright health's youtube channel, which actually traps the tfls instead of just stretching the rectus femoris. i did that on thursday and i honestly think was the first breakthrough pill. and then the second one was this hellacious yoga pose called cow face that carried it into the i.t. band as well. i actually have almost equal external rotation in both my hips back! two days ago, if i lay flat and just let my femurs relax and fall outwards, my right foot would be almost flat on the floor and the left one would barely move. so yee hah about that. and big surprise, most of the pinching and sciatic pain in that hip is gone too when i squat. oh, and my sacroiliac stuff i've been whining about? well, i may be getting ahead of myself, but guess what.

meanwhile i've just been doing third-world squats to re-settle my s.i. and lumbar spine. plus bodyweight moves to bring my glutes back online, since i know that hip pain pretty much shut them down. today side clams, tomorrow the world!

squats, mostly. hips seemed to be working so i figured that was a better use of the rack than bench press.

i went in sets of 5 with 5lb increases up to 75. then at 75 i was only good for 3 in a set. so i did two sets there plus one more of 5 at 55 cuz why not. i'm really not sure if my form was any good, but at least if it was bad it was a different kind of bad from what i've been up against.

and then a ton more stretching. oh, and i planked my face off trying to make sure i'd be using my abs.