Today was the last leg day in my gym and those of you that follow my journal know how much I like legs, lol. I wanted to make the workout one to remember, and I think I did that. I used to have a coach that would say "leve it all out on the field" and there have been times when i have thought about thhat in the gym. to me, intensity has also been leaving it all in the gym. That cliche took on a new meaning today though since it was last day there, so I really did think about leaving it ALL in the gym. I got some videos to leave you guys with since I doubt I will able to film at school.
I started with front squats. Last time I did these I barely made the last rep of each set, so I was hesitant to add weight, but I decided to man up and add 5 pounds. When I went to do the first though, I looked the bar and thought "what's another 5 pounds?" so I ended up adding 10 pounds to every set from last time and still matching the reps. The last rep of my heavy set was SLOW and I really didn't think I was going to get it because it stalled half way up. On the back off set, the same thing happened, though since the weight was lighter I could get it up. On the widow though, that was the first time my legs literally gave out after the set. Sometimes they are so wobbly that I sort of fall over, but today my left leg literally collapsed. That widowmaker was brutal. For anyone that has done freebar front squats, you know the widowmaker is very hard because you can't really rest and breathe between reps like with sqauts because, well, you can't really breathe, lol. After rep 16 I thought there was no way in hell I was getting to 20 but I somehow did, though the last rep I was sort of collapsing mid rep and sort of heaved the bar on the rack, lol. Anyway, I was very happy with these sets.
After this I was spent, but I still did deadlifts. It's funny because last night I was talking to Scoot McDonough about moving on Thursday and he was like "don't do deadlifts" and I agreed with him. Well, that lasted all of about 8 hours. Like I said, I wanted to end with a bang. I really wanted to do 455 today for a single, but I did not think a single would be smart. So I did a set with 365, then 405, then I was about to call it good because they were good sets. I have heard some people though talk about higher rep deadlifts being even harder than squats, so I said fuck it, let's try it.
My first time doing deadlifts I got 325x4, so today I put 325 on the bar for my final set. Well, I got 14. This was ridiciouslously hard and I have a ton of respect for anyone that grinds out high rep deadlifts on a regular basis. I have done it with rack pulls, but this was a lot harder. The last 4 reps here were brutal and I still dont know how I locked them out. I was happy to go from 4 reps to 14 reps in about 3-4 months.
After deadlifts I was essentially dead but I did do a few sets of hammer strength hacks and lying leg curls just because they don't have these in my school gym and I wanted to do them one last time. These sets were worthless though and I was just going through the motions. I finished with calves (which I tried barefoot and love it--thanks fade) and some biceps.
All and all today was a great way to finish up in the gym. I am going to miss it, lol. I think I am going to go back through my old logbooks from the past several months and see my progress too. The bad part about the workout today is now I am even more conflicted about which video to use for ISOM. I was debating between the squats and box squats, but I sort of want to use one of the ones for today. I miss I could do all 4, lol.