Workout 29 (28 December 2015)


So I took a 2 week break to let the throbbing pain in my shoulder go away, plus my girlfriend was back in KL for the holiday season so I figured it was a good time to take some time off. Glad to say my shoulder doesn't hurt anymore and I"m back to lifting. Today was a special session - I decided to try a ghetto gym for the reasons below

a) To get advice and fix my form  - the gym I went to was a dedicated powerlifting gym

b) I was looking for another gym - to be honest, I do NOT like my current gym - I find the poeple to be fairly unfriendly and are only willing to really help you if you pay for their lessons/consultations. I guess that's common for a commercial gyms, but even then I am skeptical of getting squatting advice from people who are squatting only their bodyweight after 2-3 years of training.

Happy to say I got a tonne of excellent advice from experienced powerlifters and got immediately corrected on what I was doing right/wrong.
Deloaded on all movements to fix my form.

Lifts
High bar squat (switch from low-bar) : 60 kg x 5 reps x 5 sets

Bench press : 35kg x 5 reps x 5 sets (Note : Possible cause of my prior shoulder pain, my previous form was lifting too high up my chest, causing a lot of stress on my shoulder)

Barbell rows : 35kg x 5 reps x 5 sets

I'm looking forward to my next session.