Powerlifting Experiment, week 3 of 9
This is a historic post. For two reasons, actually.
Reason 1: This is the first post on my brand-new LG K1 Express laptop (user review to follow).
Reason 2: We’re now officially one third through this Peaking Program! Yay! Cause for celebration, so I went and bought myself and my new laptop a Targus “Global Executive” Backpack. Nice, lifetime warranty..!
Anyway, the week’s workouts went okay.
On Heavy Bench, I started to feel it’s actually heavy with 6 x 5reps @ 102,5kgs / 225,5lbs. On the last set, I had to fight to get the last rep. Lessee now, next week it’s 6 x 6… 
The Light Squats went really well, with only one penalty repetition because of sloppy execution on my part. The rest of the 6 x2 @ 130kgs / 286lbs was a breeze. No hip pain, no nothing. Really nice…
Deadlift day. Return of the hip pain. Actually, it got quite severe, but I lived. I did 6 x 5 @ 122,5kgs / 269,5lbs. I think I thought too much about how I was doing it. Mental note: Next week, go “no mind” instead…
On saturday, I ran into some trouble on the squats. Everything was going great, I was getting good depth on all reps, except on set 3 I bungled one. Then, on set 5 I must’ve had the belt on too high, because it sunk into my ribs and caused enough pain for me to decide to skip set 6 and the light bench pressing altogether. We (me and Kris) decided that this would cause a penalty of 50cents, as it was due to circumstances beyond my immediate control. Put on some Ice Power immediately, which Kris had in his bag just in case.
Nothing broke though, as I diagnosed myself by bending and such. Since bending towards the “damaged area” doesn’t hurt and I can comfortably even sleep on it, I deduce no bones were crushed. Hopefully, this won’t make me bomb out of the peaking routine either…
Penalties total so far over the three weeks: 4€. I’m still alive, though… 
December 18th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
Sounds like we are finally in business…
With me also having to ask for a spot on the last two sets on the heavy squat day and my left biceps being fried, we will really have to dig in next week to overcome the minor pains and challenges… looking forward to getting into the lower volume phase, but first we have a rendez-vous with 6×6. Good thing that your rib appears to be up for it. 
December 18th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
At the moment yes, but we’ll see how much it complains tomorrow…