That's pretty much where I am, albeit 50 pounds down. I'd like to move up into the 198 class but that is way off: I'm 184 and I'd like to get my BF down from 18-20% to 10-12%. Putting on muscle is a slow process no matter what. If I try I can add 5 pounds of fat in a week though!
Yes it is. A 5 rep set that you have never done before is a PR for reps at that weight. It will have more meaning as that 5 rep set weight moves closer to your old one rep PR. Wendler talks about this in his 5/3/1 manual. A PR for reps is a PR for reps. Track them, count them, celebrate them, move on.
Today's workout cancelled. Started feeling a little wonky last night. I get sick very rarely - last time I remember being sick was 2008 or 09 - so assumed it was just something I ate and would go away. Has gotten worse since then, so I had to cancel some plans I was looking forward to (sorry spar and michele) and skip my heavy bench workout. Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow, but based on what I feel as of this writing, I'm not so sure. Oh well, that's the way the iron bounces.
I know, tell me about it! Good luck to the both of us.
Judging by my experience here in Manhattan, it's the gay men who will get REALLY excited. Which I suppose is good, considering the GF and all.
There's nothing here I can really argue with, but what I suppose I meant is that I've been at a strength level in the bench press where I know I could have hit 305x5 with 100% certainty. I just happened not to be doing 5s at the time. So I'm just not sure that's really a PR, except in the most technical sense. But either way, I'll soon be hitting real PRs by all accounts, which I look forward to.
Last edited by Michael Wolf; 06-28-2012 at 04:30 PM.
Feel better Wolf
Get better Wolfie...
Hope you're feeling better!
Thanks to everyone for the get-better wishes. So far I'm much better than when I got blindsided by this Thursday, but my stomach is still constantly roiling. I didn't eat anything at all for ~36hrs from 10am Thursday to almost 10pm last night (if you know me, you know how CRAZY that is), and have only eaten a bit since then. I don't even want to think about how much weight I'll have lost by the time this is over, or how far back I'll have to re-set my lifts. It shouldn't be too much, but I just spent 2 weeks doing exactly that so am already annoyed.
Since I was bored this morning (funny how 2 days straight of staying home and doing nothing will do that to you), I entered this contest. I never do stuff like this, cause it's usually a waste of time, but since I was so bored and had nothing better to do, I figured what the hell, it's worth the 1 in a million shot. So if you want to support the creation of a black iron gym in Manhattan, click on the link, like it on the facebook app, and share and spread the word.
PS my original submission was much awesomer, but when I had to pare it down to 1000 characters, I had to cut out some of the best (but non-essential) parts.
Hell yeah!