re: Pen and Paper Strength App

Benchamin Franklin W3D4

Ran this one Friday morning as scheduled. I took the day off to surprise my daughter with a day trip to watch LSU's final gymnastics final home meet of the season. So since I had some extra time available, I ran 4 extra 1 rep sets on bench and matched my 1RM. Felt great knowing I hit my 1RM after all the bench work I had already completed. I ran everything else exactly as written. No issues issues of note, just straight forward sets.

Since we left Baton Rouge at 10PM, got back to Houston at 3AM, and had to get my youngest to practice for 8AM (she slept in the car for 4hrs); I skipped leg day this weekend. Instead just cleaned up the yard and driveway after the storm rolled thru, then took a long nap.

Benchamin Franklin W4D1

Today was straight forward as well. Bench was heavy, but the sets felt like they got better the deeper into them I went. Squat was solid with decent tempo. The only real issue was the rev grip BB curls. They caused some decent pain in my elbow. On the walk back home, I was going thru the curl motions using different grips and wrist positions. It seems the pain is occurring the worst wen I have a tight grip with a straight wrist (over hand or underhand). If I turn my wrist in (towards my body), the pain is lessened tremendously. It doesn't matter if I use overhand, underhand, or neutral grip. Turning my wrist in helps on all 3 of these positions. I'm going to try this on the hammer curls and other BB curls throughout the week to see if it holds true once weights are involved as well. 3 days left!