Pikey

Yesterday I started the day feeling great, mainly due to a good nights sleep, I normally wake every hour and a half or so but more or less slept through, then I trained Quads…

Warmup then 3 working sets on reverse hacks, toes over the back of the plate, these were twenty rep sets, the first set was pretty straight forward with the last 3 reps being hard, the second was first ten reps ok then one lot of 4 and 2 of 3 by that I mean I was just pausing at the top of the rep and taking a deep breath at 10th 14th 17th etc, felt very hard and I started to feel dizzy and sick, then the third set which was about the first seven smooth a couple of two or 3 stints and then from about 12 a pause between each rep, stars in front of my eyes by now and feeling decidedly light headed.
Quads with a reel deep pump too
Second exercise was leg press on a vertical carriage with a sled that raises toes up, this really throws the intensity into the lower quad area, two sets to positive failure, something over 20 reps each set – can’t really remember properly as was a bit jaded by now –
Then 3 sets of triple drop on leg extensions each rep squeeze at the top and lower as slow as I could last set to negative failure – properly in a bad way by now, dinner was wanting to say hello
To finish two sets of walking lunges, only light dumbbells at this point and the pump went so I expect that means Glycogen depleted which wasn’t really where I wanted to be.

Sat down a while and had some amino’s and some fruit juice to get some glycogen back in, once I felt half way ok drove home…

H is an absolute star and had chopped up some veg when I got in, so I cooked 500 gram of Turkey mince with onions and peppers as H had already boiled off 125gram of brown basmati, I chucked it in with the mince etc and whacked some black pepper in, I didn’t bother sorting the weight out and just had a nice plate full and crashed on the settee.
I went to bed about half nine, around midnight I woke up ravenous so went and finished the rest of the Turkey mince etc.

I’ve put about a pound on overnight but I think that’s down to the carbs so late on, I can’t see a negative impact on condition and quads, hams and Glutes are aching nicely. I still feel drained so might have a slight reefed today. Not having dieted loads I’m still on a steep learning curve so am always hesitant to refeed even though I know it’s the thing to do…