Notes |
| Now have all exercises in the sweet spot. After a week of plenty of calories and no crutching, I expected more gains than I saw. | Something weird with pulldowns. Right arm weak. Crutching-related? Day 2 of calorie switch so maybe next week effects will be felt. And I will drive to the gym. | Pulldown machine broken so forced to do 150 lbs. Suffering cumulative effects of 'crutch-cardio' & lack of calories.Doing deadlift until knee ready for leg press again. |
| Notes | Times amazingly similar to last session. Truly, this is maintenance. Leg still in brace so no leg press. | Almost no change at all.Had knee surgery 6 days previously but having to keep one leg straight not really a problem for upper body exercises. | Rope climbing may have affected pull downs, leg press improvement may be limked to back rest position. Still in calorie deficit. | Low sleep & low calorie week & only seven days rest. Yet no other exercise between. Leg press first rep burned me out: maybe seat position wrong. | Running at the weekend, swimming on Tuesday and bad sleep may have eroded benefits of longer, 9-day rest. Could have done more on legs but demoralisation set in. | No leg due to recent fell face and another on saturday. snagnation across the board. Fatigue from race? Rest period too long? Calorie deficit? | In spite of alcoholic weekend, some good progress. Could legs have benefited from the weekend laziness? Chest is blue because it's the best time on the correct machine. | Leg press only this week due to recently skipping it - but no upper body because seeking longer rest period overall. Full session next week. | No leg press because recovering from race. *Chest press not on ususal machine so may have affected time. Still feel like stagnation rules. | No leg press because race on Sat. Stagnation on all exercises suggests 7 days rest no enough. Or not enough calories? | Finally got that 4th rep with OH press. Because the chest press was in use, did leg press before chest and chest press on a different machine. | Lack of progress in pressing is mitigated by pulldown and leg success. Overhead felt better even tho TUL static | Less rest and a change in exercise order threw timings into disarray. Surprised by Overhead Press not being better |
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| Baffling underperformance on chest and surprising improvement on legs, which may partly reflect increased intensity. | Finally finding the sweet spot for leg press. Much less rest, so not surprised by overhead press suffering. | Previous week's overhead press gains may have been due to slower reps. | First real signs of progress now that I have stability on the weights. | No leg press, hence shorter workout time. Was saving myself for fell race at the weekend. | Still finding it hard to judge the right weight for leg press. | Struggled to find right weight for leg press. Still finding the correct weight for all exercises. | Had to change weight with overhead because misjudged it. |