Good session, moved back to seated presses here, I like the Z-Presses I'll move them back in after a cycle of seated pressing.
Since I'm switching the order this week that means that this lower body workout comes only 2 days after my previous full body one...still, not bad overall...Trying to find something to fill the volume here until I'm comfortable doing snatch-grip romanian deadlifts again. That heavy hip hinge really irritated that core strain I had. I'll probably just start doing them again in a couple weeks, and hopefully the irritation that flares up after the workouts gets less and less each time. In the meantime I tried split squats here...I've always wanted to do better with them but they always feel awkward to me. I'm not sure if it's a balance issue or what, but they just feel weird. Also tried doing calf raises, with my toes on the edge of a bumper plate...didn't really work because of the curvature of the plate.
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I woke up this morning and my core felt back to normal. I seem to heal in 'chunks' as opposed to gradually; I've noticed this before with strains or just sore joints here and there. After this workout I had some vague soreness, maybe 1/3 of what it had been before, and that was gone by the next day. The workout itself went fine. I'm going to ramp up on deadlifts again, I want to be back at 500 before year's end. Also, I think things have cooled off enough outside that it's time to move sprinting to Sundays / Thursdays. In the summer I put them on Tuesday / Saturday so that they're always following an 'easier' day from a workout perspective. When I bulk up in the winter I prioritize the full body & lower body workouts, so they'll go on Saturday / Tuesdays now.
Yup, sore core here too...Felt it on the deadlifts particularly, I'm going to give it one more week before I go to a doctor. Oddly, the weights I put up on squatting went fine, as did the deadlifting...
Irritated I didn't get more on 240...not sure what happened there. As predicted my core is pretty sore today after the jumping yesterday, I assume it will be after tomorrow's lower body workout as well. Rest of this session went fine, although it was briefer, again because my core is incredibly sore.
Okay, so I thought I would never beat that previous broad jump record I had, but I forgot about one thing. When you start bulking there's usually a delay of a few weeks before you start to notice strength gains. It takes time to build new muscle. But when that strength gain kicks in it's usually before you've gained a lot of weight, maybe a couple pounds. Such is the case here...The strength gain has definitely kicked in, and I'm still light enough to launch myself pretty well. I didn't think of that until after this session though, so I was pretty shocked with the numbers I put up here. As I started I realized I could kick my legs forward a bit more on my landings so I tried that as well. I was trying to avoid violent hip-hinging movements this week to let that ab-strain or whatever heal. So I knew I'd pay for this later (I did, super sore next two days after), but the weather was in the high 70s it was sunny and beautiful out. Now, can I go further than this? Probably not. This is coming off the most successful cut of my life, with that early-bulk boost in strength, and I've done a lighter workload the past week.
As noted, going to avoid doing incline walking this week to let soreness in core abate hopefully a bit more.
Trying to do a better job bracing my core on exercises, seems to make things less uncomfortable as my core feels better. I notice it is uncomfortable mainly when sitting or doing a hip-hinge movement (as noted previously). I still want to give it another 2 weeks to see how it feels before going to a doctor. It's not getting worse, and I think it feels better today. Kept the weight lighter on front squats final set since that takes a ton of stabilizing force from my core to stay upright. Also worked hanging knee raises back in here, seemed to go fine.
