Reasons for Bad Workout

Surprisingly, I had a bad chest workout today. This is usually the easiest body part to pump and fatigue, and rarely do I suffer from the muscular 'disconnect' that occurred this afternoon.

As strange as it may sound, I almost felt non-recovered from a full body session last Thursday. Only two exercises were attempted on that day, performed in modified Monster Zone fashion (i.e., not as strenuous due to longer rests between mini-sets, and less regard for completely even fatigue throughout exercise range of motion). Decent pump that day, but nothing fantastic.

Today, three exercises were chosen that usually lead to what I like to call a 'crisp' connection, where its easy to really groove each repetition and dig deep into the target area. In other words, everything usually seems to click. But today, everything felt off; coordination, connection, and then frustration when the first two were noted to be off.

About a minute after each set, a decent pump was noted, but not the usually full and round pectorals that I've noted since implementing the Zone Training method first 3 years ago. About 7 hours later at the time of this writing, some of the usual post-workout fullness is still there, but again not as much as typical. Following chest, shoulders were a little better, but things didn't really click until triceps at the end of session. Appearance immediately after was of somewhat deflated pecs and shoulders, and nicely pumped and hard triceps.

Curious to see what happens with next two days' workouts (different body parts). Will those also suffer as chest (and to a lesser degree delts) did today? Also, due to unusual split, these body parts won't be trained again for 9 days (vs. usual every 7th day). Finally, I haven't been super hungry last 2 days after eating a lot Saturday afternoon/evening (social event). Doubtful that lack of calories in last few days had much to do with things, but interesting to note nonetheless.