Return To Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

     Today saw me starting back to my strength program that I was doing last year, or maybe it was the year before. I honestly don't remember. In any case, it was awhile ago. I know that the last time I did this program, I was stronger and tonight I was once again humbles by time and my poor decisions. I've lost strength. I can't deny it, I can't excuse my way around it or explain my way past it. Because of my inconsistencies, I AM WEAKER. The beautiful thing about admitting that is that it leaves any guilt and shame at my feet and allows me to focus on training to once again be a strong person. 

     I don't have the link for the program that I'm doing. I'll see if I can either find it again or just write it up and post it for anyone that cares to try it out. It's simple and effective; a 4 day split that gives a good mixture of results for strength and aesthetics. Tonight was bench night. The program starts by testing for your max in various lifts. My max on the bench is down 15lbs from when I first did this program and that just is pathetic. I began changing that tonight. Here's what I did:

BENCH:

65lbs x10

80lbs x5

95lbs x3

110lbs x1

120lbs x1

135lb x1

150lb FAIL

120lb x2

CLOSE GRIP INCLINED BENCH:

45lb x12

65lb x5

(55lb x10) 2x

55lb x7

DB ROWS:

(25lb wide rows x10) 2x

(25lb narrow rows x10) 2x

50lb x5

LAT RAISES:

(15lb x10) 5x

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     I definitely felt weaker than I have but I tried not to let that dissuade me from giving my all. I know that I WILL make progress, I just have to stick with it.

     Tomorrow is squat day and I'm already nervous.