“A path is made by walking on it.” Jan's log

[slowmotion]

Braver man than I am. My body and brain are in agreement that they're solidly intimidated by heavy deadlifting.

Hey, deadlifts are fun! It's the heavy squats that is horrible.

Looking good, by the way. Belayed congrats on the squat.

Thank you very much!

[slowmotion]

for me heavy deads are like asking the cute girl in class out on a date: nerve wracking as hell but HOT DAMN is it awesome when it happens

hehe, never thought of deadlifts that way, but why not!

[Toasterleavings]

for me heavy deads are like asking the cute girl in class out on a date: nerve wracking as hell but HOT DAMN is it awesome when it happens

hehe, never thought of deadlifts that way, but why not!

Nah. Stop with the romanticisation of heavy deadlifts. Heavy deadlifts are rewarding like a haemorrhoid flare up, or uncontrollably shitting yourself in public. They should be banned.

[slowmotion]

Well, we'll see about that. During a moment of insanity last night I signed up for the Baker Barbell Club, so who knows what will happen.

[slowmotion]

30.03.2017

Today was first day trying to follow the BBC program.

Front squat: 20 kg x 5 x 2, 40 x 5, 50 x 3, 70 kg x 4 x 4.

I've never, ever done front squats before, so I started out very conservative.
I quickly found out that the biggest problem was holding on to the fucking bar.
By the time I was done with the work sets my wrists and elbows was permanently deformed and pointing in impossible directions.
Good thing the next exercise was deads, which straightened my arms out again. That's good programming!

Deads: 50 kg x 5, 75 x 3, 100 x 1, 125 x 1, 150 kg x 4r x 6s.

This was all right. I've never done 6 sets of deads before, but it wasn't too bad. I don't know how I will feel tomorrow, tho.

Then I did two sets of 15 rep of good mornings + two sets of 25 reps of standing calf raise.

[Mr. Bingley]

By the time I was done with the work sets my wrists and elbows was permanently deformed and pointing in impossible directions.
Good thing the next exercise was deads, which straightened my arms out again. That's good programming!

definitely good planning!

nice work

[waistline warrior]

What is the BBC program?

[slowmotion]

That's the Baker Barbell Club.

http://startingstrength.com/resource...ml#post1459301

I just signed up and today was the first day for me.

[waistline warrior]

Will be following to see how it works out.

[slowmotion]

01.04.2017

Overhead press: 20 kg x 5 x 2, 30 x 5, 40 x 3, 49.5 x 1, 59.5 kg x 4r x 6s.

That was the second press volume session this week, but such things happens when you ( or in this case I ) change the program in the middle of the week. It was all right.

Military press: 54.5 kg x 10, 49.5 kg x 10. Even more presses, what's going on here? To be fair, the program prescribed seated dumbbell presses. I decided to do the MP instead.

Side Delt Raises: 4 kg x 15 x 3. Never done these before, so 4 kg each hand was heavy enough on the 15th rep.

There was some more fluff work on the program too, but I decided to stop there.