Tues, 1 Sept 15

This is my first week of a full class schedule for PT school after finishing orientation on Friday last week.  So far I like this much better than the start of grad school and while my class schedule is more rigorous than when I was getting my Master's (14 credits this semester versus on average 9 at Salisbury), it is laid out in a way that I really like with classes in the morning and early afternoon with nothing late and only one "optional" (not optional) anatomy review on Fridays.  Tuesdays will be the longest days for me, mostly because they have the earliest start time.  Today was worse because I am still trying to figure out when I can eat based around my class schedule and I ended up not training until around 6pm today, where ideally it should have been getting the ball rolling around 4pm.  This was because I was starving when I got out of class so I ate and then I waited for my food to digest to train and I was losing motivation by the minute.  If it weren't for having the gym in the garage now, I would almost certainly have bagged training for today except that that would have then pissed me off so then I might have ended up going in even later.  Anyway, I took video of my squats and sumo DLs today to try and assess WTF I am doing wrong and work to correct my deficiencies.  It helped to some extent, but looking for technique faults on video after the fact and trying to implement fixes on the next set is much more difficult than having a knowledgeable training partner threatening to gouge out my eyeballs and fornicate with my skull if I don't drive my head up and back and use my damn glutes more during my sets.  Steve, Rich, and Nick - you are all missed on a regular basis.  Still better than slogging away with no thought or work for improvement though.  On the plus side, I do think I am slowly getting better and using my Texas Squat Bar always helps cheer me up.

Squat

10x55

5x145

5x235

3x285

1x325

3x3x375 - First reps were ok; the rest were slow and stupid, but not that hard.

Sumo Deadlift

10x135

5x225

3x315

5x325

3x365

10x410 - I'm barely using any glutes at all on most of my reps and my starting position for the first rep is totally funked up.

DB Stepups

3x12ea x 45

SS: Band Hip Abduction/Single Leg Calf Raise

3x{20x doubled light band/20ea x BW}