re: Pen and Paper Strength App

DB Strength W1D2:

This day flows like I like it to flow. Starts out with 3 consecutive supersets. First one is tougghhhh! Pullovers always leave me feeling like a nail has been driven into my back, right between my shoulder blades, I think I get this tiny little cramped up spot there in my rhomboid muscle?? I dunno why it does that, I'm gonna blame my form. I've never recorded myself doing pullovers and broke down my form so that's probably it, or it's just a new exercise for me and I never do them so much that my body gets used to them. Any scapular retraction during this workout after the pullovers kinda re-activates it so the rows are teeth-gritting to get through.

Second SS is a little easier, third one is a little easier than the second, and then yer done with supersets. I enjoy starting at the highest intensity and gradually decreasing with each phase towards the end. The Zottman's didn't punish my left tennis elbow too much, I felt some tenderness but not what I would call pain. I went really light (10lb) and slow and easy on the reps so as not to exacerbate it at all.

Pretty easy once I got past SS#1 with lunges and pullovers, but the equipment limitations are most obvious on a day like today. Unless I want to spend more time loading/unloading plates on my DB handles than I do actually lifting, I just have to set up for speed and efficiency. That puts me at weights that are either a tad too heavy, or way too light, it's hard to get to the sweet spot.