Thoughtful Tuesday - 5

Okay so as you should know by now yesterday is my big deadlift day. Slight change of scenary as I was down at my local gym this week instead of in the studio. It's good to use different equipment also have other people there to try to impress!

Anyway so I was going in to the gym with a specific plan. I was going to deadlift (obviously) and go up to 190kg. I was going through all my lifts at all the weights and I got up to 180kg lifted it and it felt extrememly good and moved pretty easily. So I thought to myself, screw the plan I'm going to go straight for 195. So I did and I got it. It was a very good lift if I do say so myself!

I think what I want to get across is that you need to have a plan when you go to the gym but it shouldn't be concrete. Don't be afraid of changing things up. If things feel good and are going well then push it a little more, conversly if things aren't going well (we all have bad days) then don't be afraid to tale things back a bit. You will probably save yourself an injury.

That definitely translates in to the rest of your life too, being adaptable and able to read a situation and change to it. It's all well and good having a plan in your head of how you're going to do something but life throws curve balls at you and you have to just roll with the punches.

You can learn a lot from lifting weights!

Next week I should be back up to my PB of 200kg. I think that I should now probably aim for 500lbs (227.5kg). Why not? Things are going well!