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Tonight was hella cold outside, I kept my top on while I lifted like a man but my hands were cold as hell which sucks. Anyway yeah, good workout today, let's get to it.
Squat:
135# 1 x 5
165# 1 x 3
185# 2 x 5
185# 1 x 9
Bench:
135# 1 x 5
155# 3 x 5
Deadlift:
265# 1 x 5
So we'll start with the Squat, the last set of 9 felt tough but after I was done not bad. I felt good, definitely ready to make the jump to 190 on Monday. The bench wasn't painful on the left arm today, I did the pencil technique, shout out to you MT, appreciate it. I think I'll be getting to my max soon, which is pretty upsetting/pathetic but that's why it's called work. It's not easy and it takes time to get where you want. The Deadlift, what can I say about it today besides it sucked. I know that it's not my max probably not anywhere near it but it just felt heavy today. I'll probably be fine since I wasn't hydrated today and I felt it before I worked out. Either way it was a good day. I'm looking forward to Monday
Squat: 190
Bench: 160
Deadlift: 275
Question to anyone who wants to answer, is it possible to mix workouts on a weekly basis so:
Week 1: Strength/Mass Lifts
Week 2: Crossfit
Week 3: Bodybuilding
and then recycle the workouts every three weeks?
I'm going to tinker with the workout a bit tomorrow. I'll still wait a bit since I am getting results from the Strength workout and I don't want to just jump around workouts/need more strength and mass. That said I'm just so bored, it's driving me nuts.
Squat:
135# 1 x 5
165# 1 x 3
185# 2 x 5
185# 1 x 7
Press:
45# 1 x 10
105# 3 x 5
Power Clean:
140# 5 x 3
Alright, Power Cleans felt strong, I felt weak in the press and I think my form was sloppy so I'll keep the weight the same going into next week. I wonder if I have to take Saturday and Sunday off. Is one day of Recovery enough, so On Off On Off etc...? Looking at you for the answer MT. I'll stay at 185 for the squat and do it for 9 reps on Friday. Form felt better and more confident in the lift but I think that's just because I knew I could do it(Placebo effect).
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Squat:
135# 1 x 5
165# 1 x 3
185# 3 x 5
Bench:
135# 1 x 5
150# 3 x 5
Deadlift:
255# 1 x 5
I'm going to stick here for a bit at 185# when I hit the workout tomorrow for Squats and jump up to 190# next week. I'm hoping my core gets stronger over the course of this week since I feel like that's where I'll lose it first.
It was a little chilly out tonight during the workout but it felt great once I got to work. I was anticipating the workout since Monday and I was actually a little worried about meeting my Squat weight. I felt like I burned through that workout pretty quickly and strong as hell. I've been taking Amino Recovery by Bodybuilding.com and I think it's helped shake off the cobwebs faster and recover quicker. Creatine has been pretty good too, staying disciplined and only doing the workout is tough because I want to do more.. but I won't until after at least two months. Anyway, let's begin.
Squat:
135# 1 x 5
165# 1 x 3
180# 3 x 5
Bench:
135# 1 x 5
145# 3 x 5
Deadlift:
245# 1 x 5
So while I felt strong during all of these workouts my left chest pectoral and arm felt strained, like the muscle was strained/tearing but I did go through. We'll see what happens next week. Also, I think I'll go up to 185# and go through a week squatting at that weight. I didn't feel weak but I'd like to make sure that I'm not pushing too fast and I plan on continuing the workout for 4 more months so we'll see.
I know that you see the distinct lack of a workout on Tuesday. Well, I've decided to wait on the bodyweight stuff, once I've relapsed in every exercise for the starting strength, I'll tweak it again. Coming back to working out after so long of a break, it's important to ease back into a routine and not try and do to much. Anyway tomorrow will be spent laying out a plan for the remaining 8 months, kind of crazy that one month has already gone by. Now to the point:
Starting Strength Workout:
Squat:
135# 1 x 5
165# 1 x 3
175# 3 x 5
Press:
65# 1 x 5
95# 1 x 2
100# 3 x 5
Power Clean:
135# 5 x 3
So the Power Cleans felt strong, I love the explosion, it's going to be interesting to see what weight I can get up to with those. The Press was good, just getting back in the motion, I'll plateau and have to regress before I reach 135#. The Squat gave me more trouble than I thought, I got the weight up but form seemed a little bit iffy... Maybe I should do the same weight on Friday or try and plow ahead to 180#... It'll depend but the forecast is as follows-
Squat: 180#
Press: 105#
Clean: 140#
Finally, my girlfriend sent me muscle milk and vitamins so I've start that cycle to include men's sport multivitamins. So thank you J-Demetrius for the boost. I love you.
So Sunday was a Rest Day and what a rest it was. I didn't sleep at all but I did get to see some Patriot football, more importantly, when the offense couldn't produce(I still think it's funny that a bad game for our offense is 23 points) the defense stepped up and made critical stops and forced 3 and outs, but enough football, let's get to what really matters.
Today's workout started off sluggish during the warm up because of the lack of sleep and I skipped breakfast this morning. I'm going to have to take my diet and rest more seriously. Either way once I got into my working sets I felt good and was able to get the weight up easy enough. I believe a part of that is that I started so low but I could feel how weak my core is since I haven't really hit the gym consistently since prior to NTC(May 2012). Anyway here's the numbers:
Starting Strength
Squat:
115# 1 x 5
135# 1 x 2
140# 3 x 5
Bench:
135# 1 x 5
140# 3 x 5
Deadlift:
235# 1 x 5
Friday will be a good one:
Squat: 150#
Bench: 145#
Deadlift: 245#
That First Week Back Is A Killer
I felt it today, I thought I might have skipped it with how good yesterday's workout felt but going back into a Metcon, which became just a lifting session but more on that later. My legs tightened up a bit while I was working and I could tell my metabolic conditioning was complete shit during the first set of thrusters. Without a doubt Saturday's are going to be the hardest part of this new conditioning. In addition there's no place to do pull ups in this place so that means I had to substitute pull ups for Good Morning DB Rows.
Crossfit Workout:
Modified Fran-
21-15-9
95# Thrusters
55# DB Good Morning Rows
Time was not kept because it took me so long to replace Pull Ups with the Rows.
I'm looking forward to Monday's workout, I'm going to need to make sure that I run though, I'm getting stagnant and falling back to the ways of The Faction.
