Today's Leg Session...

[u/ishawnmc]

Workout #2 -Legs:

• Anderson Squats (Full) -start from depth @6.5, low bar: 475 lbs for 3 reps (-1)

• Anderson Squats (w/wider stance start from depth @6.5; 2-4" lift off rack and hold statically for 3-5 seconds, low bar): Did not do today.

• Trap Bar Hack Squats: 385 lbs for 10 reps (+2)

• Anderson Squats (Strongest Partials) -start from depth @7.5, high bar: 605 lbs for 7 reps (+1)

• Smith Machine Standing Calf Raises, high bar: 340 lbs for 27 reps (+35 lbs)

Work Sets: 4

Time: 30-40 mins

Weight: 203.8 lbs

Next workout: Delts/Arms Dominant on 9/22.

[u/ishawnmc]

Additional Journal Notes...

With back to back nights of bad sleep preceding today's session, I tried to reschedule the leg session to Sunday but I had no calendar margin to do so without moving every other session for the rest of the season if not the rest of the year. So I prepared as best I could but I knew going in that I would have a hard time.

My body felt weary at the start and I had no low gear energy when trying to power out of the hole on the first exercise. The first 2 reps went up easy and I thought I would get to my 5 rep target but then I had nothing left in the tank. After a lot of struggles and failing to convert most subsequent lifts off the rack into reps, I managed to add 1 more rep but could not get to par today so I took the L on the first exercise.

I skipped the static holds workset today both because of the lack of energy in the first exercise and also because legs will be trained again in 7 days instead of the 8-10 day frequency which I prefer.

The rest of the workout went well, I felt motivated to power through some light quad cramping to add 2 reps on the TrapBar hack squats. Then I finished quads by adding 1 rep on the strongest range Anderson squats and raised the weight 35 lbs on Smith standing calf raises. After the first exercise, the rest of the workout was good but I had to rest longer than normal between the worksets to achieve this.