Yesterday I only ate two times; omelet in the morning, and two small steaks with blue cheese in the evening... but then a whole lot of dried berries. So less protein, and a bit more carbs than usual.
So I was a bit worried about how I was going to fare in the workout session today. Since I now start with overhead press, and was at my home gym, it was time to increase the weight I though. I went for the 20 kg bell bar (fixed weight). Of course I had to measure it, and sure enough, it was 21.25 kilos! Anyway, that exercise went good.
Then I started warming up for squats in the smith machine (I just do three really quick warm up sets with increasing weights and decreasing reps). I felt weak. Usually I feel stronger than this while warming up. This is going to be a tough one I thought while shaking my head and sighing. I put the normal weight on, and yeah it felt heavier than usual. I gave it all I got, and at the end did less time under load than previously. That figures I though, while I recorded the time and weight.
I then moved on to bench press... and for some reason I though I would measure the total weight. What? Why does it show up so much heavier than before? There must be something wrong! Finally I figured it out... they had actually re-calibrated the smith machine I was using, so that the bar alone now weighs 17 kilos instead of about 7! The funny thing is, the other smith machine in the gym was not changed, it still was only 7 kilos.
So I adjusted the recorded weight and hey, I didn't do worse after all, in fact I did quite good!
Front pulldown clearly went back a bit though. I felt quite tired in my lower arms this time. I guess it's showing that it's the last exercise... it's the punching bag of the exercises now, getting bullied by the others!
On seated row I stayed on the same calculated Work level, however I did increase the weight used... so that one is a bit unsure.
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