Making A Difference

Week 6 workout 2. The goal of this 14 week workout plan is to break through my personal bests of 245 bench press and 305 deadlift.  Switched from a low-rep/high-weight workout to a high-set/medium-weight/medium-rep workout to build endurance and mass.

I felt really tired today.  Two hours of sleep Tuesday and 4 1/2 hours on Wednesday didn’t put me in a good position to workout today, but I couldn’t go three days rest between workouts with a potential 65 – 70 mile bike ride planned for Saturday.  Still, the glutton that I am, if I can get 7 or 8 hours of sleep tonight, I may complete a Thursday/Friday workout and still do the bike ride Saturday.

Deadlifts: 10 sets, 5 reps per set at 220 pounds.  Start a new set every 90 seconds.

Bench Press: 10 sets, 5 reps per set at 170 pounds.  Start a new set every 90 seconds.  I’m plateauing here and can’t seem to break through 170.  Unfortunately there may be a few reasons.  One likely reason is that I’m not getting enough sleep.  So I’ll try to address that one before I move on to others.  Tim Watson, my personal strength coach, says he has some changes for me when I hit the plateau.  I’m not sure if I should call this one yet.

Body Weight Squats: 80

Pull-ups: 2. I didn’t have enough energy left to keep going.

Jump rope for 5 minutes

Workout tunes: Rascal Flatts Still Feels Good and Phil Collins Hello, I Must Be Going

- Andy

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