Finally ditched the idea of
competing in Spain’s next Powerlifting open, just too many things going on in
my life right now (busy spell at job, and a real Achilles-and-Tortoise
situation with my dissertation, when as I seem to get closer and closer to
finishing it I keep finding more and more loose strands I have to work on, thus
putting the real completion farther and farther away). However, I’m still
sticking to a “false meet” on the actual competition date (or around that) to
see where I’m at, and transition to the next training block (which involves
focusing on speed and explosiveness, and getting as fat as possible).
So I am back in intensification
mode, substituting triples (and soon singles) for the sets of five I had been
mostly doing in the main lifts, and limiting the amount of assistance exercises
to the bare minimum. It has not started well, as the first session centered
around the squat saw an abysmal failure in the first set of triples, at what
should have been a relatively easy 150 (about 85% of what should be my current
1RM, which I expect to be hovering around
175 kg) ended up with my first fail ever in just the second rep (having already
done a triple with this weight a couple of weeks ago). Blessed be the power
rack, as I left the bar in the safeties without a problem (and then, after
stripping it of just a couple plates, did my first pin press ever –a session of
firsts, as may be seen-) and could resume the training with less weight. Fact
of life is that far from gaining strength since the end of last year, at least
for this lift I’ve probably lost some of it, and I’m not sure if it is lack of
frequency (as I’ve not adhered much to my pristine program, and have stretched
most microcycles wo they ended up lasting between 12 and 14 days, instead of
the 8 days that would have been optimal) or on the contrary, lack of recovery
between sessions, specially for the squat (as the bench press doesn’t seem to
have been similarly impacted, nor does the deadlift, which I’m training much
less frequently).
Be it as it may, I’ll just soldier
on with this type of routine (go to a daily max, then triples for one more
cycle, and then singles for another one, do accessories as needed to keep the
frequency of presses and squats high) until April, and then it is off to the
races (back in shot putting mode)…
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