Deadly

142.5kg. Always looks a bit funny when you've got these massive plates on the bar, and in order to keep progressing, you put these tiny little things on the end. It'll look even funnier when I'm down to 1kg or less...

So 142.5 went up well on the squats, better overall form, chest up better, narrower grip - though I don't know if that did anything specifically useful or not. Probably 2 reps out of the 15 were off - the first one, which felt high (or parallel) and the third in the last set, where I went down too vertical and so came up too far forward.

Then bench, and I actually got them all at 75, so happy with that. 1kg increments will be the go here methinks...

Deadlifts, couldn't get 'em. I'm disappointed of course, but upon reflection, not too much so. My deadlifts have been well out of proportion to my squats for a while now, as they continued going up (after a bit of a sticking point) while I reset my squat by 30kgs. Now, as my squat continues to improve, well past the point where I reset, the demands it places on me in a given session have significantly increased. At the same time, my overall fitness is being tested by the commuting that I'm doing, particularly the (for me) enormous hill that I'm climbing up of a morning.

The combination of those two, I think, is what is getting in the way of increasing the deadlift. I'm not failing on the 4th rep, by and large, I'm not moving it in the first place - my back won't stay solid. I got one rep up tonight, but couldn't manage a second. I reset to 160kg, but couldn't get that off the ground, either! So the question is whether or not to reset by 5%, or 10%. The second option would take me back down to 155 or so - which is a big drop. But, proportionate to my squat numbers, it might not be such a bad place to be for now. In isolation, 5% would probably be enough, but I think 10% is right for the overall context of my life at the moment.

And more thoughts arise with respect to the broader picture of training, but more about that next time...