This Past Week (3/15-3/21)

This past week was an interesting week for me. As predicted, I didn't get a thing done for Self Made. And to be completely honest, my lifts were not any more productive. The previous Friday I began sneezing and by Sunday I had a full cold. I thought I'd be able to lift through it, but after getting through my general and specific warm-ups, I hit my three warm-up sets for my box squats but the weight felt heavier than it should have. Then on my first working set I had to break the set up into 2x2 instead of 1x4. My second working set I hit all four reps clean, but on my third set I unracked the weight and struggled mightily with my first rep. That's when I racked the bar and decided to call it a day.

I planned on crushing my lift bench lift the next morning, but upon waking I realized that my illness had only gotten worse. Nonetheless, I made it over to the gym, got through my warm-up and warm-up sets, then struggled through four working sets on the bench. I did three set of core and called it a day. Actually, I called it a week. I decided to take the rest of the week to sleep, rest, and heal with the understanding that I would have multiple plane flights and a lot of other travel going on that week as we were headed down to Salem, VA for the Final Four. Realizing that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I decided it made a lot more sense to try to get as healthy as I could in order to enjoy the rest of the week as best I could.

My plan worked, and after sleep 11 1/2 hours that Monday night I woke up on Tuesday feeling significantly better, and by Friday I was all but over my cold. So yeah, that's the big news for last week on the Self Made front. This week holds a lot of promise for productivity though, so I should have a good post for you in the near future.

That's all for last week, now it's time to go live this one.

Get big or die tryin'.