After I did my first set of split squats, holding the down position for two seconds, for 8 reps, the title of this post was going to be "My Trainer is an Evil Man". But after doing the second set, I knew it needed more than that. So Rog gets two "evils".
My butt and upper hammies are so sore right now. I never fully got over the next-day soreness from the first workout and now this. I haven't been this sore from workouts in quite a while. And it's perfectly alright. It's the good kind that tells me that improvement is going to happen. It's just that it's been so long since I've felt that teeth grinding pain from cranking out tough reps that I just have to whine a bit.
I was able to handle 95# for the 5-rep sets of hip thrusts. I've decided I want to focus my improvement efforts on the rack pulls and low rep hip thrusts. I outlined my goal for the rack pulls in the last post. My goal for the hip thrusts is also to add 20# over the next two months, up to 115#. I'm not going to add any reps to any of the other exercises unless they get so stupid easy that I'm just going through the motions. I'm doing so much more effort in these workouts that I'd be in danger of overtraining fairly quickly if I try to add to every exercise I'm doing. Adding just 3-4 reps per workout should keep me improving while letting me recover sufficiently to keep going through the next two months.
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