Thanks guys. Yeah, shit sucks..No pun intended.
Yesterday I felt a lot better. That night I got back on my usual diet, eating a few chicken breasts when I got home. Felt good to get something in there! Just before bed I had a big glass of milk with a scoop of whey. Mmmm..
This morning I felt a little weak still, but got a solid 12 hours of sleep in since clocks got turned back an hour. Even woke up after 8 hours to slam some protein cause my hunger pains woke my ass up..Back to the same old shit I guess..
ME BENCH: DELOADING
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Yep, felt good enough to go. Even though I felt weak as fuck, and obviously smaller, I was surprisingly strong today. Very strong in fact. I went with a close grip 2 board press (extra rest for my pec) and worked up to a conservative 365! Could've went more too.. Tried a drop set with only 275 and busted out 8 solid ones taking it easy. This time though I used a medium grip, a lot closer than usual for me for regular bench pressing. I've always went with pinkey's on the rings, and always kinda felt uncomfortably wider than I'd like. I've always had really strong triceps, and I have a much much easier of a time tucking my elbows with my grip in more. So, this time I went about another inch in from the rings....And low and behold, felt powerful! Absolutely no soreness in my pecs. Really allowed me to tuck the elbows and flair my lats good. So I'm very pleased with the new grip. It should elliminate any pec soreness from now on.
Afterwards, did some push presses. By now I'm pretty winded from my 2 day diet of....ginger ale. Still able to blast up 225 x 1, then 255 x 1. Tried 285 but didn't have any gas in the tank.
JS Rows I lowered to 265 for all three sets of eight. Felt ok with these given my condition. After those, I did 3 sets of face pulls with the stack, then blew off arms and left the gym happy as fuck!
Pec felt great, still very strong, and was able to accomplish just about everything without feeling overly run down from being sick.
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Oncoming week will feature MORE volume, but still DELOADING. Basically, not gunning for any PR's, or TOO heavy of weight yet, but I am increasing the volume more for my final deload week so the transition will be easy as pie when I start pushing again.