The biggest find of this week has been my intolerance to lactose and consequently my best friend, milk. After reading articles that a person can develop intolerance to lactose later in his life, I immediately knew the reason behind the stomach-turbulence and my need to frequently visit you-know-what. This, by no means is good news, since my diet consisted of more than a liter of milk everyday. Further, milk is one of the cheapest source that provides all the three macro-nutrients. (I despise you Arnold, for saying milk is for babies!)
So this morning, I didn't have milk for the first time in 24 years and perhaps had the most comfortable first half of the day, along with an awesome workout, which went as follows :
[All weights in lbs, obviously :) ]
Squats (155,195,235,275)x5 , 320x3 <<<< A f***ing PR :D
Bench (95,120,140,165)x5 , 195x3
Rows (45,90, 115, 125)x5 , 145x3
I felt really good throughout my warm-ups with squats and knew I had a PR in me today. My hip flexibility and ankle mobility has been improving rapidly with the daily stretching routine that I have been doing. Consequently, my squats are almost like an olympic ATG (ass-to-grass) squat. That is, if I go an inch or two lower, my hips will have to bounce off my calves. More on Olympic stuff later in the post.
I have been stuck at 210x2 on bench for 3 weeks and hence had to deload. Thus, 195x3 was cake today and I didn't even bother for a spot. My last 210x3 attempt (which was a failure) was with Chris spotting me, when he ended up saying - "It's bench man, who cares?". This just made my day and I swallowed my pride and deloaded happily. Same was the case with pendlay-rows, I had to deload because of form issues. I consulted few forums and considering that this is my first deload in the program, I am not too worried about it.
Lately, I have been increasingly interested in olympic weightlifting. I have been following elite weightlifter's videos. That is, the likes of Dmitry Klokov, Ilya Ilin and Mikhail Koklyaev.
Apart from this, I have also been following youtube channels of John Broz (BROZKNOWS), Clarence Kennedy (clarence0) and California Strength. All the time, after watching these videos I am just left in awe, specially by the sleekness and augustness of these lifts, be it the snatch or the clean and jerk. I used to do power cleans before my back injury, that is, when I used to pull conventional.
Another reason is the friendship with Chris, who is a passionate olympic weightlifter in the gym where I train. He had 2 back injuries in the past and he switched to olympic lifting, because it allows for a more upright torso in all the lifts. Further, the sport of olympic weightlifting is yet to be corroded by performance-enhancers like steroids etc, which futher motivates me to stay natural and still get to compete at higher levels. That being said, I am not giving up right now, and would compete in a powerlifting meet early next year. My goal is to hit 365 lbs in the squat and deadlift and 225 lbs in the bench press before then. If that happens early (which is likely), I might try to lose some weight and get lean to fit into a lower weight category.
Well, that's it then, its almost 1 in the afternoon of the long Canada-Day weekend here in Vancouver and poor me is finishing up a post. Sad? Hell no ! After all I have a party to go to, later in day and join friends for the Euro final on Sunday !
So this morning, I didn't have milk for the first time in 24 years and perhaps had the most comfortable first half of the day, along with an awesome workout, which went as follows :
[All weights in lbs, obviously :) ]
Squats (155,195,235,275)x5 , 320x3 <<<< A f***ing PR :D
Bench (95,120,140,165)x5 , 195x3
Rows (45,90, 115, 125)x5 , 145x3
I felt really good throughout my warm-ups with squats and knew I had a PR in me today. My hip flexibility and ankle mobility has been improving rapidly with the daily stretching routine that I have been doing. Consequently, my squats are almost like an olympic ATG (ass-to-grass) squat. That is, if I go an inch or two lower, my hips will have to bounce off my calves. More on Olympic stuff later in the post.
I have been stuck at 210x2 on bench for 3 weeks and hence had to deload. Thus, 195x3 was cake today and I didn't even bother for a spot. My last 210x3 attempt (which was a failure) was with Chris spotting me, when he ended up saying - "It's bench man, who cares?". This just made my day and I swallowed my pride and deloaded happily. Same was the case with pendlay-rows, I had to deload because of form issues. I consulted few forums and considering that this is my first deload in the program, I am not too worried about it.
Lately, I have been increasingly interested in olympic weightlifting. I have been following elite weightlifter's videos. That is, the likes of Dmitry Klokov, Ilya Ilin and Mikhail Koklyaev.
Apart from this, I have also been following youtube channels of John Broz (BROZKNOWS), Clarence Kennedy (clarence0) and California Strength. All the time, after watching these videos I am just left in awe, specially by the sleekness and augustness of these lifts, be it the snatch or the clean and jerk. I used to do power cleans before my back injury, that is, when I used to pull conventional.
Another reason is the friendship with Chris, who is a passionate olympic weightlifter in the gym where I train. He had 2 back injuries in the past and he switched to olympic lifting, because it allows for a more upright torso in all the lifts. Further, the sport of olympic weightlifting is yet to be corroded by performance-enhancers like steroids etc, which futher motivates me to stay natural and still get to compete at higher levels. That being said, I am not giving up right now, and would compete in a powerlifting meet early next year. My goal is to hit 365 lbs in the squat and deadlift and 225 lbs in the bench press before then. If that happens early (which is likely), I might try to lose some weight and get lean to fit into a lower weight category.
Well, that's it then, its almost 1 in the afternoon of the long Canada-Day weekend here in Vancouver and poor me is finishing up a post. Sad? Hell no ! After all I have a party to go to, later in day and join friends for the Euro final on Sunday !
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