Cycle 5 - 5/3/1 Press Day
First up, deads on Saturday went pretty ****house.... Got 2 x 157.5kg on 1+ set, not happy at all. Used a bar I haven't before (never again) and grip just seemed all fukked up. The two came up fairly easy but something was off. Back was a bit ordinary too so just left it at that. Prob not too bad to have an easy week for a change.
Press day today. Went alright (especially considering my new nutrition plan which I'll go into later).
[B]Warm up sets:[/B]
20kg x 5
20kg x 5
30kg x 3
[B]Work sets:[/B]
40kg x 5
45kg x 3
52.5kg x 6
Got 50kg x 6 last 1+ day, so same reps more weight seems pretty good.
[B]Assistance Work:[/B]
Then hit up some bench, 5 x 5 x 62.5kg. Went ok, mixed grip width up a bit to try and hit different areas. SS with pull ups. Then did some DB press SS with pull ups and rear delt machine flyes.
[B]1+ Press Progression:[/B]
C1: 8 x 42.5kg
C2: 7 x 45kg
C3: 8 x 47.5kg
C4: 6 x 50kg
C5: 6 x 52.5kg
[B]New nutrition plan - Intermittent Fasting[/B]
So over the weekend I decided I've gotten too fat, need to lose a bit. I've heard good things about IF around the bb.com forum so I thought I'd look into it a bit more. So today was the first day.
The training session above was done at about 12-1pm, so fasted from around 9PM last night (other than BCAA's and PWO). Wasn't sure how this would go as I'm usually getting two meals in before I hit the gym. As above though, the session went well, whilst I didn't quite hit a PR, I got the same reps as C4 at a higher weight so can't complain.
Thoughts so far are that IF seems pretty good. Considering this was the first day and I would've expected my body to take a while to adapt, I handled it pretty well.
[B]Starting Weight - 86.0kg[/B] (although I think some of this is water weight from crap eating over the weekend)
[B]Goal Weight - 80.0kg[/B] (I think, but we'll see how it goes)