Rbenz Training Log

[Rbenz]

Squat:285 3/3/2
Press:170 4/3/3

I had a terrible day and this is now officially my second stall at 285. Time for an intermediate program on everything because all 5 lifts are stalled. I'm not to sure how to run this quite yet considering I just wish to get stronger. My deadlift is on an alternating pc/dead every wednesday and I have not seen exactly how to program it at the intermediate stage. I plan on running a straight texas method. Any recommendations on my new program would be greatly appreciated guys since this is my first time at this level.

[Rbenz]

Alright New program

Monday:
Squat: 5x5 265
Bench Press: 5x5 235 (Volume)
GHR: 2xfailure
curls:3x8 95

Wednesday:
Front Squat:3x3 190
Press: 5x5 160 (Volume)
Chins: 3xfailure

Friday:
Squat:285 1x5
Bench: 250 1x5(Intensity)
Deadlift: 330 1x5

[Rbenz]

Squat: 265 5/5/5/5/5
Bench:230 5/5/5/5/5
GHR:BW 12/10/8
Curls:95 8/8/8

Good workout today, advancing felt really nice and I am positive I truly exhausted the novice program. All of these felt relatively easy except for the first set of GHR. These are hard and seem to hit the hamstrings quite nicely.

[Rbenz]

Front Squat:190 3/3/3
Press:155 5/5/5/5/5
Pullups: 5/4/4 kind of embarassed to post these, but o well im gaining weight

I feel sore as hell and the press seemed kind of hard. My hamstrings are very tight, and I feel very lethargic. We will see how friday goes.

[Rbenz]

making a slight change to the program, alternating halting, and rack pulls instead of 1x5 considering I was already deadlifting every other week. I will also throw in 3 sets of 3 cleans on friday. Also as I wish to enter into powerlifting bench will become my main focus and a 2:1 ratio over my press.
1x3 will be my max this week.

So it looks more like this
tomorrow:
Squat 290 3rm
Bench 255 3rm
Clean 3x3 190

[Rbenz]

Didn't do cleans because of the knees, otherwise hit the numbers in squat and bench.

[Rbenz]

Squat:270 5/5/5/5/5
Press:175 1x3
Halting Deads:275 1x8 wasn't to sure how to do these. It felt as if my back detrained considering the last time I pulled a set of five has been a month or more. We will see how this progresses.

My priorities currently regarding my training
1. Deadlift increase probably somewhere mid 300s after the detrain.
2. Squat increase
3. Bench increase

I weighed in at a flabby 212 I couldn't believe this I'm gonna drop calories down to 3800 from 4000, and up my protein again to around 320g per day. Considering my goal is to get stronger this is not a problem. I have always been able to stay decently lean when not constantly overfeeding.

[Rbenz]

Front Squat:195 3/3/3 Felt very easy
Bench:232 5/5/5/5/5
Chins: 10/10/10

Felt great today, I cut GHRs out and my recovery is much better because of this. I felt very overtrained last week and thought that these could be the culprit. We'll see how next monday goes. Anyways I trained at Lindenwood today, and got some of my buds rofl like usual we had a great time.

Also probably one of the funniest moments I have seen at any gym I experienced today. My bud Matt was front squatting 210 and he missed his last rep and dropped the weight on the floor, and everyone in the gym seemed to go silent. He was pissed from failing with the rep and yelled loudly, "That's what you fucking do to the weight, throw it down, don't be a pussy throw the fucken weight around and stop being a little bitch. More Fbombs. I was laughing hysterically and everyone kind of just looked the other way and acted like nothing happened.

[Rbenz]

Squat:310 2rm
Press:156 5/5/5/5/5
Roman Chairs: 35lbs+BW 10/10/10

Posting the workout before because I probably will not finish training until 3:30-4AM. Bed sounds better than ever at this time.

[Rbenz]

Squat:275 5/5/4/4/3
Bench:267 2rm
Rack pulls: 315 1x5

Squat took a dive with the cal drop, I dropped 2lbs and am currently around 210. Will drop my cals to 3600 as of tomorrow. Did some foam rolling, and took a contrast shower. I am going to do everything I can(recovery wise) to try and see if I can get 5x5 275 while in deficit. Maybe even sleep 8 hours if I get the chance.