Adam Skillin's Minimalist Training Log

[Adam Skillin]

5/14/18:
Squat: 285x5x5
Press: 190x1, 155x3x3
SLDL: 325x6x2
Dips: +45x9x3
Chins: +25x8x3
Ab wheels and calf nonsense

[Adam Skillin]

5/17/18:

Squat: 395x1, 375x3x3
Bench: 265x1, 225x5x2
Deadlift: 405x4x3 (1 set hooked, 2 sets strapped)

bw just under 160

[Adam Skillin]

5/21/18:

Squat: 290x5x5
Bench: 245x1, 265x1, 190x6x4
Power Clean: 140x3x5
Dips: +90x4x3
Chins: +75x2x5
calves & abzzz

[Adam Skillin]

5/23/18:

After a day of manual labor:

Bench: 225x3x7
Press: 165x1, 135x6x4
Machine rows, DB curls, played with light dumbbells & machines for a couple minutes

5/25/18:

Squat: 405x1 (video), 385x2, 365x3x2
Bench: 225x9 (again)
Incline Bench: 115x10,10,8 (short rest periods)
Deadlift: 450x4 hook grip, 405x4 seatbelt grip

[Adam Skillin]

5/28:

Got a short one in

Squat: 295x5x5
Press: 155x3, 165x3, 155x3
Bench: 245x3, 260x1, 270x1, 8x{195, 175, 155} last 3 sets on minimal rest

[Chad Mynhier]

5/23/18:

After a day of manual labor:

Bench: 225x3x7
Press: 165x1, 135x6x4
Machine rows, DB curls, played with light dumbbells & machines for a couple minutes

5/25/18:

Squat: 405x1 (video), 385x2, 365x3x2
Bench: 225x9 (again)
Incline Bench: 115x10,10,8 (short rest periods)
Deadlift: 450x4 hook grip, 405x4 seatbelt grip

Nice. So where is this you're working out? It doesn't look (or sound) like a commercial gym.

[Adam Skillin]

Nice. So where is this you're working out? It doesn't look (or sound) like a commercial gym.

Well, I would have liked to to look a little technically cleaner, but I appreciate the kind comment. This is actually where your short squat rack ended up. It's a basement my friend has access to, and we lift there sometimes, and I sometimes lift at the commercial gym where I coach (the one you've been to). The wife and I are moving to an apartment complex tomorrow that has a "gym" with equipment that may prove adequate for certain workouts (They don't appear to own enough plates for me to do a heavy deadlift workout, but I may be able to convince them to fix that). I'm glad you brought it up, actually. It may be worthwile to denote going forward where each workout was completed using the notation "basement gym," "apartment gym," and "commercial gym" so that I'll be more easily able to recognize any patterns that emerge over time.


5/31/18 (commercial gym):

Squat: 355x3x2
Press: 175x2x3
Deadlift: 455x3
Bench: 245x3x2

[Mr. Bingley]

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"AG"
"CG"

[Adam Skillin]

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6/4/18 (BG):

Squat: 300x5x5
SLDL: 335x6, 315x6

Had to cut it short. Glad I was able to get this done after the extremely high volume effort I put into moving this past weekend. New place is nice.

[Adam Skillin]

6/5/18 (BG):

Another short one:

Slingshot (blue) bench: 255x3x3
Regula bench: 220x5x3
Press: 130x6x4