27/12/12; 1100-1300 hrs; SRC gym
Mood
Before: Woke up fresh and all ready to bench.
During: Felt good going into the warm ups but the forearms
started acting up and the work sets were terminated.
After: Super tired for some reason. Looking forward to smolov.
Training
Warm up: Did a rather thorough shoulder savers warm up. No
pain noted anywhere.
Work sets: During last warm up set, both forearms started
acting up. Pain shooting through both forearms and numbness. Had difficulty
gripping pull up bar. Pain in forearms when benching. Final work set was not
done as I wasn’t able to get the bar off my chest. Pain and numbness in both
forearms and just unable to extend the elbows with the weight.
Assistance: Not done. Decided not to irritate forearms any
further.
Accessory: 4 sets 10 reps of straight arm lat pull down
superset with L-lateral raises. 4 sets 10 reps of front plate lateral raise to
overhead extension superset with incline rear lateral raise. Surprisingly elbow
extension in this manner was fine but benching was painful.
Miscellaneous
Upper body days are clearly not performing according to
plan. Perhaps smolov is really so taxing. Will see how things go next week. As
for forearm pain, will need to find the cause of it. I suspect it is due to the
frequent squatting. Probably some direct soft tissue work is needed to relief
the tension.
Diet
Appetite today was good too.
Breakfast/preworkout: 2 scoops protein, creatine, 2 slices
white bread and 4 eggs. Breakfast was had to get down again for some reason. 1
cup kopi o kosong ti loh before hitting the gym.
Lunch/postworkout: 1 scoop protein, 4 eggs and curry meat
rice at can 2. Didn’t finish the rice as usual, had about half of it.
Teabreak 1: 1 scoop protein with some low fat milk. Went to
take a nap.
Teabreak 2: Some biscuits and 2 mangos.
Dinner: Pork belly, white rice and green vegetables. Ice
cream.
Supper: 1 scoop protein with low fat milk.
