August summary

Hey

Long time no see. I had some unexpected setbacks (work, life) but I’ve been trying to train nonetheless, although the progress is far from what I expected a month ago. The only major difference is I took up deadlift a few weeks ago and I even went up to a solid 145kg x 1.

This is what I still manage to do:
Part 1

85kgx6x6 on Mondays, 90kgx5x7 on Tuesdays, 95kgx4x8 on Thursdays , 100kgx3x10 on Fridays
With deadlift I’m still kind of careful because I want to avoid an injury so i just do 10x50kg, 10x60kg, 10x70kg + a few lifts of 100kg and over. I will increase this slowly over time to also do 10x80kg and 10x90kg sets over next week.

Part 2
I also do a stamina training several times per week where I do 2 sets of:
24 x stomach crunch
21x 65kg benchpress
24x 20kg weight pullovers

I also went hiking last week for a short recon of the route but the weather changed so suddenly around 2p.m that I only managed to do 20km. I have some major lessons learnt, though: I will not be taking my chest bag after all because it’s too much hassle and the straps are not flexible enough so it gets irritating after a while. The chest bag also changes my balance in a way that’s a bit dangerous on slippery slopes.

The shoes were also a problem because it turns out my lovely Columbia Trailstorms size 46 become too small after walking even 15km. I’ve bought Adidas Terrex rain rdy size 46 2/3 and I’ll go hiking again this Saturday to try them out. New shoes always make me happy 😀