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Had a funny few days. Last Wednesday I cam down with a throat infection which lasted until Saturday. As I was off work, I decided on Thursday night to do some weight training (I was getting bored doing nothing in the house) and also decided that rather than the usual clean and presses to start with, I would do a quick clean and press warm up, followed by SQUATS.

I only squatted a light weight, but concentrated on form. For the first time, I did full squats, i.e. squatted down until my thighs were parallel to the floor. I think I was using 50kg, but that was enough. I did a few sets of 8-10 reps.

As I had made one change to my routine, I decided to make another. Instead of the bent over rows, I did semi-pull ups. I put a bar low, supported my feet on the floor, so that I was almost horizontal, but not quite (probably about 30 degrees from the floor really) and did pulls ups. Several sets to failure. Did not manage many, and was too tired to count. Probably about 5 each time.

Finished off with the good old bench press and then a few dumbbell curls.

The next day my thighs were killing me. I could hardly walk. Still pretty bad on Saturday, and although better today, there was no way I was going to run around Great Baddow. So I missed the Great Baddow fun run, which I had been planning for 8 months, to do (was actually planning the 10 mile run a while ago, but those plans had to change to the 2 mile fun one!).

Some good news, when I last weighed myself, I was 88kg (194 pounds). So still losing weight.