Fri, 21 Oct 16
Block 7, Wave 3 - Assistance II
Today was one of those days. Three days in a row of midterms means I'm all kinds of tight and have pain in my neck and back from not stretching enough, having more stress, and getting less sleep. But I do have 2 days off until my next midterm on Monday and I warmed up well (or so I thought) and wasn't doing anything heavy or stupid or different. But it happened anyway. Freakin Murphy and his freakin law.
BB Split Jerks
complex x 45
complex x 95
complex x 135
1ea x 185
2ea x 205
1ea x 205 - And this is where I stopped. Sometime during my first work set with 205 I managed to tweak my left shoulder, specifically one of my external rotators. It was very minor, but enough that I first did not go up on weight on the second set as I had planned, then stopped the set short, and then stopped doing the exercise. This put me in a foul mood.
Snatch Balance
5x45 - These felt ok.
3x95 - I think I was lying to myself at this point that I could keep going.
5x115 - Yup, all of them hurt so I stopped the exercise and shut it down for the day. I was mucho POed as evidenced by the gigantic "F@CK YOU" I scrawled across the whole page of my training notebook. This was not a major injury and there was no pop or specific moment when I knew something had gone wrong, just a growing feeling of pain in my shoulder that was getting worse the more I tried to push through it. I called a halt for the day because it should heal up in a day or 2 if I am smart, but if not then I'll be dealing with it for a few weeks and that is no bueno since I have one definite and a second tentative (pending the state of my knee rehab) competition coming up in the next month. So rest, ice, blah, blah, blah. This was not a good end to what was a long and stressful week.