I finally sat down and adjusted my routine to try to avoid using my shoulder, so today’s the first of those workouts – essentially, on A days, I just eliminated the bench press and replaced it with flys, which should work my pecs and whatnot without the stress on my shoulders.
- Weight – 281 lbs
- Squats – 290 lbs, failure on 3rd set
- Inverted Rows – 5, 5, 1
- Chest Flys – 120 lbs (Nautilus machine)
- Reverse Crunches – 3×12
- Push-ups – 10, 5, 4
This was probably the best workout I’ve had since coming back from the break, even though I failed pretty miserably at squats and my rep numbers weren’t eye-popping at anything else. My shoulder seemed to take the whole thing a lot better after I removed the bench press, and my all-around form felt a lot better – the reps I did get through on squats were better reps than I’ve done of late (which may be why I failed out in the 3rd set), and I think today was the best set of push-ups I’ve ever done, form-wise. I’ll take another crack at the 290 lbs. squat on Wednesday, and maybe things’ll go better. If not, I think 290 lbs. is a pretty reasonable place for a first deload.
And, to top it all off, I weighed in at 281 lbs, a new low. Pretty pleased with that.
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