CMG's Log

[cgeorg]

SS Log

Well, I'm no longer running SS so I figured it's time to come up here.

6'0 ~215lbs (would like that to go down by about 10 for looks) dude vegetarian.

Highest tested things:
Squat: 335x5, 350x3, 375x1
Press: 150x5, 153x4, 165x1
Bench: 200x5, 225x1
Deadlift: 345x5, 385x1

I will get back on a real (mostly likely HLM-based) program soon but for the next couple weeks at least I will be just trying to get some work in where I can so that's going to look like Andy Baker's training without a plan article. I feel like I've ground myself into the ground with all of the @9.5+ lately.

Does tracking weeks still matter? This is not a thing normal people probably worry about. I'll do it.

Week 47

Squat:
385x0@10.5
345x2@9.5
315x5@9.5
I was under-fed/under-carbed coming in, didn't have a bottle make gatorade in for the trip to the gym so I bought a couple there. Squatted with some other dudes on a free-standing rack. Was targeting 375 or 385 for the top single, I figured since I hit 375 for a single before and my worksets have gone up by 30 lbs since then, 385 was not excessive. Last warmup single at 355 was fast, probably @8 so I figured I had 385. I was grinding for a long time before I got a little spot - I might or might have gotten it up but the spot was definitely warranted. 345 felt like complete ass afterwards. Lesson learned.

Bench Press:
185x3@9.5
185x6@8
185x6@8.5
185x5@9
185 was supposed to be my last warmup before a top single but it felt so damn hard I decided to just rep out there. Bar path issues on the last set, but I was pleased at how the middle 2 felt.

Chins
BWx9

[Toasterleavings]

Welcome to the Terrordome of Tenacity, the Igloo of Intermidiocy, the Palace of Punishment, the Hamsterwheel of Hardship, the Motel of Mediocrity. Finally, you are home.

Nice try but commiserations for 385. At the very least it'll help out your RPE skills, and nothing broke off so structurally you're good for it!

[cgeorg]

Hamsterwheel of hardship sounds fun, I'm in.

12/24/2016

Press:
165x1@9
150x3@9
135x8@8.5

165 ties my 1RM PR, and I think I had another in me. 150 felt a little heavier than I'd have liked.

Deadlift:
335x1@Round Deadlift 335x1 - YouTube
295x3@First one good Deadlift 295x3 - YouTube
265x5@Mostly Ok Deadlift 265x5 - YouTube

My last warmup at 315 was good - I did not video it but I know this because it felt exactly like the first rep at 295 did. Both of those reps felt different than any of my pulls have since I can remember. So I guess my flat back 1RM is somewhere between 315 and 335. Going to have to just check my ego and work these back up correctly. I stopped at 5 on the last set because I didn't want to make it to rounding territory. From the looks of it I had a couple more good ones in me, so that's a relief. Maybe after a while of doing these right I'll gain some proprioception and be able to gauge things better as I'm doing them.

(Forum software is fucked and adding [email] tags to my video links? Edited to just having the links plaintext)

[Agilic]

Welcome to the Int section. What's your age? We're the exact same size and very similar on deadlift and bench, but you're much stronger than me on press and especially squat.

[cgeorg]

Welcome to the Int section. What's your age? We're the exact same size and very similar on deadlift and bench, but you're much stronger than me on press and especially squat.

Hey there, I'm 33. It's always seemed that my shoulders/upper back and legs were stronger than stuff like chest and arms, and it seems that's the way it's played out for my LP. I was honestly kind of surprised bench has gone as well as it has, although it's still got a ways to go. Figuring out leg drahve back around 1 plate territory was pretty big.

I also drink too much, sleep too little and am vegetarian so there's that.

[cgeorg]

Week 48

AKA week 2 of being a lazy shit

12/27/2016

Squat:
315x1@8.5 wtf
335x1@8 Squat 335x1 - YouTube
315x4@9 Squat 315x4 - YouTube
285x7@8 might have been 8, kind of lost count.

Loaded up 355 after the 335, and then decided not to push it. I feel like my form is terrible. Like I'm too upright or something? Maybe if I got my upper body a little more horizontal I could keep my knees where they are supposed to be? I should get a rear 45* shot soon, all the cages are just so close to the wall that I can't look at a spot on the ground and if I try to just fix my neck angle then my focal point ends up moving down and up the wall as I go down and up and let me tell you that is a weird feeling.

Bench
205x1@7
225x1@8 This is my previous PR and it flew. One of those times you ask someone to come stand there for a spot JIC and then feel silly about it.
205x4@9
185x8@9

[cgeorg]

12/31/2016

I didn't really eat yesterday and went to a reunion for a dance thing we used to go to in college so I was drunk and out late. Hurray for cereal and gatorade! Oh also I got to the gym 45 min before closing. APPARENTLY I am however pretty resilient, as the numbers below ill indicate. Let's close this year out right.

Press
155x1@7.5
170x1@9 5lb PR and it was not that slow
155x4@9
140x8@9.5

Deadlift
315x1@8?
335x1@8 for real tho and check out this flat back
So then I was like well hmm I could work off of that or I could
355x1@9.5 and check out THIS flat back. I want to make these bold because I'm positive it's a flat back PR but I'll just wait till I get it up to 385.
315x2@10 was toast after the 355
275x5@10 at this point I just mentally could not get myself into the right position, and didn't want to practice bad reps.

[cgeorg]

Week 49

Was going to go yesterday (which would be 2 days off), then Friday, then get back onto Monday and Thurs/Fri. Instead work got in the way and I did not get to the gym til today.

1/4/2017

Bench Press
215x1@8.5
195x5@8
185x8@9
185x5@8.5 wonky bar path on #4

I think I need to warmup slower on these. Went through 185x2 on my way up and it was worse than the work sets.

Squat
345x1@7.5
365x1@9.5 Video
325x4@9 Video
295x8@8? RPE on these is hard because cardio or something

I think these were nice enough? Still probably too upright sometimes. Also shown, homemade t-shirt from St. Pitrick's Day a couple years back.

BBC what's the old saying, curlzzz for the tendonzzz?
50x12x3

[cgeorg]

Purchased GGW - going to kind of jump in at week 11 but with a lil more volume to line up with my schedule, then start it for real with my tested 1RMs for the start of the next lifting year. Looking at it, it seems like there will be less sets that feel terrible. Probably slightly slower progress than I've been making, but that is to be expected as the weight goes up, I suppose. Also I think I'm going to start cutting when I start this because I'm now at 219lb and 39" and that's more lbs and " than I'd like. Navy method has me at 23% and something more like 15-18 would be nice.

Also I am a bad person at eating and getting to the gym.

Week 50

1/11/2017

Squat
315x1@7
355x2@9.5 uh 2RM PR I guess. Video
355x1@9.5
315x4@8.5
315x4@9

I'm nervous my tested 1RM is not going to have budged over this past 3 months, and I know that's all on me.

Press
155x1@8
155x2@9
155x2@9
155x2@9

At least my presses seem to have improved.

BB Row
95x8@0
135x6x2

[cgeorg]

Week 51

May there be 2 entries this week please. Taper week, but from what?

1/17/2017

Squat
315x3x3

Press
135x3x3

Everything beltless @ not hard