This was a busier week than the last. I had trouble finding the energy to show up at the gym, but this easily classifies as a "microsuck" as Huberman puts it in his podcast on increasing tenacity and willpower.
Microsucks are those little annoying things that you know are good (or bad) for you, but you are having a little trouble doing (or resisting) them. Apparently training to overcome your microsucks directly trains the center in your brain responsible for marshaling willpower/tenacity in actually hard times. So I showed up anyway.
I feel the strongest in my squat. I tried squatting with a slightly wider stance this time, and found the result to be more stable and easier on the back. This was as tested with the 5x10 deadlift session following the squat sets, which left me SORE in the butt, but did not pump my lower back at all. Last week, my deadlift form was compromised, I think due to excessive strain on the lower back from the squats with a narrower stance.
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