A2. Close-grip bench press, 8-8-8, 21X1; :60 rest
B. Air squats to bench just at parallel, 3 x 10, 3111; :60-2:00 rest
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20:00 AirDyne @ Z1, off every 5:00 for :40 front leaning rest on rings emphasizing keeping quads flexed
A1. 83(7) across
A2. 114, 119, 119
B. complete
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complete
Woke up for the second day in a row with knee not swollen at all, so this is promising! It still gets swollen after activity, but at least it's getting better overall.
Romanian deadlifts felt really good - definitely need the stretch, although all the stretching over the past couple of days is really helping.
I don't think I've ever paused at the bottom of a bench press (Chelsea can attest that I'm a fan of bouncing the bar off my chest) - this ended up getting pretty challenging. The 8th rep on the two sets at 119 were pretty much max effort, wouldn't have gotten a 9th.
Set up a 55lb+25lb competition plate to stand on to get the bench just at parallel - Mark Byrd said I was either exactly at parallel or maybe just a hair below, but with just the 55lb I was definitely above. Knee was super, super tight on the squats. Didn't get that sharp pain, it's just not really comfortable at that ROM (not in a bad way, definitely want to keep pushing this). Could feel it swelling more and more with each rep... but happy to be testing it out.
Quad still isn't firing at 100% - I definitely felt a difference in left versus right on the FLR, and I also felt the tension decreasing after about 0:30... I was trying to flex as hard as I could, it just slowly started to shut off each time...
Woke up for the second day in a row with knee not swollen at all, so this is promising! It still gets swollen after activity, but at least it's getting better overall.
Romanian deadlifts felt really good - definitely need the stretch, although all the stretching over the past couple of days is really helping.
I don't think I've ever paused at the bottom of a bench press (Chelsea can attest that I'm a fan of bouncing the bar off my chest) - this ended up getting pretty challenging. The 8th rep on the two sets at 119 were pretty much max effort, wouldn't have gotten a 9th.
Set up a 55lb+25lb competition plate to stand on to get the bench just at parallel - Mark Byrd said I was either exactly at parallel or maybe just a hair below, but with just the 55lb I was definitely above. Knee was super, super tight on the squats. Didn't get that sharp pain, it's just not really comfortable at that ROM (not in a bad way, definitely want to keep pushing this). Could feel it swelling more and more with each rep... but happy to be testing it out.
Quad still isn't firing at 100% - I definitely felt a difference in left versus right on the FLR, and I also felt the tension decreasing after about 0:30... I was trying to flex as hard as I could, it just slowly started to shut off each time...
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