Heavy Day

For a change of pace yesterday I tried a good old-fashioned "heavy day". My plan was simple:

1. Work the whole body with big compound exercises.
   
2. Warmup with 1 x 8, 1 x 5, then keep adding weight until 5 reps became a maximum set. Attempt a second set of 5 at that weight.
   

I managed the following:
Squats - 195 x 2x5
Standing Press- 105 x 2x5
Chins- 45 x 2x5
Dips - 65 x 2 x 5
Deadlift - 255 x 2 x 2 (bailed out early - back was feeling tweaked)

When the workout was over, I felt pretty good. I'm used to being totally wiped out from fast paced, higher rep workouts, so in a way I felt I "cheated"; I wondered whether I'd worked hard enough.

By that night I got my answer - soreness of a type I never felt before settling in all over. This definitely taxes the muscles in a different way, and its fun to put up (relatively) big weights. No doubt I will try this again!