Week 1 Day 4 Deadlift Day

This was one of those workouts you complete and then forget about it quickly because it just plain sucked ass. Which leads me to talk about an interesting blog article I read a few days ago titled Should You Train to Failure by Christian Thibaudeau. For anybody that is busting their ass in the gym they should take a few minutes to read it. His belief is that squats, deadlifts, bench press and many other exercises should be avoided for training to failure. This means you either reached failure trying to complete the rep or finished the rep and had nothing left in the tank for another rep. The vast majority of people cannot train this way, they will drive themselves into a hole called CNS (central nervous system) burnout. But many people do just that in the gym and wonder why training is going downhill. 
blog article should-you-train-to-failure 
Listen to your body, the feed back it gives you is your best information. Just like mother nature it always wins, your body will do the same thing. Push it too hard and it will push back in many different ways. 
Once again the 5/3/1 program does a great job when it comes to regulating your training, if you apply the simple principle of ALWAYS leaving 1 to 2 reps in the tank on your heaviest work set. For the people that read my blogs, I've written about how after trial and error I no longer push myself in the deadlift. For AMRAP (as many reps as possible) sets I do the bare number of reps nothing more and never a rep I fail with. My reward has been a steadily increasing deadlift poundage in each competition and same for the squat. My squat is the same thing except on a AMRAP set I will push myself to try and set a new PR but ALWAYS leave a rep in the tank. The bench press when it comes to a AMRAP set I often finish with no reps left in the tank. And my reward for the bench press is stagnant weights that are stalled. See any correlation here.....
Yesterdays workout was crap, started with squats and they felt like crap and ended with deadlift which also felt like crap. I did not even bother with my heaviest deadlift set, I just threw in the towel and called it. Sometimes you just have to listen to your body and be smart. How did this crap workout come about, well after a quick analysis of my training week leading up to this I can see why. Lesson learned once again but that is life live and learn.
1. Jumped into first set last too quickly and too many sets
2. Too much intensity and volume in my workouts the whole week, after coming back from a deload and competing.
Train smart Gym Rats!!

Day 4 Deadlift
Squat bar x 10, 95 x 10, 135 x 10, 185 x 10, 225 x 5, 275 x 5, 275 x 5, 275 x 5
Sumo Deadlift 135 x 10, 225 x 10, 275 x 5, 315 x 5, 375 x 5, 405 x 5 no more called it a day