Workout Log: 22 December 2016

Gotta get this in here before I forget about it, and then I'll go back to the second 2016 reflections post.

I'm not sure what I was smoking when I thought it would be a good idea to train legs twice in one week, just a couple days apart. R was originally thinking back & biceps, but I commented on the soreness of my forearms after already doing that stuff on Monday and then deadlifting on Tuesday, and I made the brilliant suggestion that we should do legs again since I'd be skiing over the weekend, and what better way to get ready for that than to do a bunch of squats, right? In the immortal words of Homer J. Simpson... D'OH!!

Workout type: Heavy objects
Muscle groups: Leg day, part deux
Squat: 135x10, 225x5, 275x3, 315x3, 315x3, 315x3, 315x3, 315x3, 315x3, 315x3, 315x3

Yes, that is 8 sets of 3 at 315. While I have to say that 8 sets of 3 is a hell of a lot better than 3 sets of 8, doing 24 reps of something which is probably within 20% of my 1RM gets to be pretty damn difficult after rep 15 or so, no matter what the sets/reps breakdown is. My right knee started to feel a little janky after set 6, so I tried on a pair of knee sleeves for sets 7 and 8. I'm not sure if they helped or not, since I'm not used to wearing anything on my knees when I squat, but the feeling of having them on was kinda cool. Even a slight bend in the knee is met with resistance and there's some bounciness; I wonder what it would be like to ski that way...

Anyway, despite this squat workout of doom, my quads weren't sore the next day or the day after, which is both a good thing and also somewhat surprising. My knee still feels a bit off, though, like someone hit me right in the kneecap. It will be good to have a few days off before we test all the lifts next week to see what my year-end totals end up at.