Thursday, June 27, 2019

Been getting much better at front squats. Currently doing 275x5 and 295x3. Have noticed wrist pain when I bench press now as a result, though wrapping them fixes the issue for that given session.
My bench and strict press seem to have switched statuses. The latter is on the way up while my bench sessions have been mediocre. The last two times I did 300x3. My front delts and pec tie-ins felt sore which I believe is from doing heavy flat benching on bench day and incline benching on press day, so I'm going to back off and replace one of those with dips to see if that improves things.

Have also gained quite a bit of weight since my break from Muay Thai. Currently at 198; last time I weighed myself in May I was 189. Ain't a bad thing, my undersized arm could always use the energy surplus.
Been training consistently, just not updating. Unjustifiably feel less inclined to now that I'm not squatting or deadlifting.

Went to Muay Thai for the first time in over a month. Am able to punch now without extra pain. Coach said it was good to have me back and he notices when I'm gone. He said he won't have me doing any hard impact striking as I heal. I have to note that after all the slightly awkward living room jump-roping I've been doing and dealing with carpet, I was able to have the best rope session ever on the mats. Skipped for around 5 minutes without missing a beat. Since I've never skipped rope straight for that long my shoulders got pretty tired.

After that we shadowboxed and then did ab exercises before moving on to the heavy bag. Combo was jab, right leg kick, left hook to the body, right leg kick again.  Transferred this to a partner with each person taking turns, and then adding a 1-2 at the end. Finally, we ended with heavy bag rounds using any combo of 3 punches and 2 kicks.