Kitty’s Log

[Hughinn]

Hope you guys are doing well! Been doing some work to try to help with the hip issues I’ve been dealing with for a couple (or few) years now. The injury obviously won’t go away but I have some imbalances/tight areas from compensating from the pain. My left psoas is tight, while my right one is basically lazy. The right side is the one that had the impingement and has a torn labrum. So I’ve been working on trying to restore balance.

Here’s today’s workout- was a pretty good session

Flat bench
45x15
75x8
95x8
115x5
125x3
135x3
140x1
135x3x3 sets
115x8
95x8 pause
(Got in my head and really struggled with 140-didn’t get a full 2nd rep. So went back to 135 to be able to get sets of 3)

Flat DB bench
55x7
55x6
55x5
(Each of these were just before failure)

Incline bench
95x7x4 sets

Machine flyes
115x10x3 sets
100x10x2 sets

Plate loaded dip machine
2 plates per side x10x4 sets

SS with DB kickbacks (palm away)
15x12x4 sets

Cable crunches
75x12x4 sets

Decline sit-ups
4 sets of 8-12

Cardio

Stretching/mobility work

I break down the chest and shoulders similar to you. But I do core and abdomen work on lower body days instead of chest and shoulders. And always incorporate overhead pressing into chest days.

The reason is that I found having sore abs sucks when I'm trying to squat or deadlift. But sore shoulders ain't so bad.

I like your break out though. Very similar to mine.

[KittyO1]

I break down the chest and shoulders similar to you. But I do core and abdomen work on lower body days instead of chest and shoulders. And always incorporate overhead pressing into chest days.

The reason is that I found having sore abs sucks when I'm trying to squat or deadlift. But sore shoulders ain't so bad.

I like your break out though. Very similar to mine.

Thanks! That is smart with the ab work. Sore abs definitely suck on squat day. I don’t seem to have as much trouble with them on deadlift day but I do often switch up which day I train abs -honestly depending on which day I have time for more than 1-2 sets. I use to add shoulders on chest day too but found they were still sore when it was time to work them again [emoji23]