No weekend weigh in

Bad morning in every way. I tried the COC #2 and i could not close it, not even anycloser than last week. It is making me still wonder if this will ever work for me. I need more rest. When i did my own workout i was only doing it 2 times per week and thats it. Now i am at 6 per week (actually 12 because i am doing 2 smaller workouts each day) And back then i could only close the #250 (same as the COC #2) if i had enough rest. I am not going to give up yet, i will follow this all the way through the 12 weeks and then make a decesion. It is not fair to judge too early. Week 4 is a back down week so the start of week 5, i better be able to close that damn gripper.
So i moved on to bending a couple of hours later. I know Bill said to stay away from bending during his KTA because of the workload but i figure 1 time per week should not be that bad. Maybe i was wrong!! I could not move the hexabastard (5/16" x 7") at all. I hit it atleast 7 times and even tried holding it longer and nothing. It just pissed me off even more. This was about 3 hours after the gripper workout so i thought i was rested. But thinking back to Thursday night, i had a hard time with the easy cards that i was able to rip into 4's before i started the KTA, now i barely ripped them in half. So i am done with cards until after the KTA. And i will not bother trying the edgin (5/16" x 7" grade 5 bolt) yet either.