BigA's Log

[ud2o]

Good stuff here, BigA. Keep going. My only "regret" in life is that I didn't lift weights when I was your age.

[BigA]

Good stuff here, BigA. Keep going. My only "regret" in life is that I didn't lift weights when I was your age.

Thanks for reading! I owe Rip a big thanks for writing Starting Strength. Had he not wrote it, I may not have been lifting weights now.

[BigA]

SLDL (no belt + hook grip + chalk): 360 x 5, 360 x 5, 360 x 5
Squat (no belt): 155 x 5 x 2

Morning bodyweight: 241

[BigA]

Squat (no belt): 325 x 5 (ID)
Press (no belt): 155 x 2, 155 x 5, 155 x 1
Weighted Chin-ups: 15 x 3, 12.5 x 2, 12.5 x 1
Incline Bench Press: 190 x 4, 190 x 4, 190 x 3 (I forgot my fractional plates so I just moved the weight up, no big deal)

Morning bodyweight: 244

I really hate training in the morning. I went to the gym 50 minutes after I woke up. I ate a twinkie before I lifted and drank Gatorade before and during lifting.

[BigA]

Tuesday

Squat (no belt): 300 x 5 x5

Wednesday:

Press (no belt): 137.5 x 5, 13.7 x 5, 137.5 x 5, 137.5 x 5, 137.5 x 5
Weighted Chin-ups: 15 x 4, 12.5 x 4, 12.5 x 3
Curls, Lateral Raises, Rear Lateral Raises, Tricep Extensions

Thursday: SLDL (no belt + chalk + hook grip): 365 x 5 x 3

Morning bodyweight (on Thursday): 239.8

I didn't do the light squat today due to time. I am interested to see if it affects Friday negatively.

Last weekend, I got sick with something. I didn't have a runny nose or sore throat however. I was just extremely achy. I was worried I somehow got rhabdo (I don't know how bad it hurts exactly so I couldn't tell) but it went away within the day. Something I realized is that ever since I have gained around 55 + pounds in bodyweight, my illnesses don't last as long. I used to be 175 at 6 ft 1 in so quite skinny. So more muscle has definitely helped with that.

[BigA]

Squat (no belt): 330 x 5
Press (no belt): 155 x 3, 155 x 3, 155 x 3
Weighted chin-ups: 15 x 4, 12.5 x 4, 12.5 x 3
Incline Bench Press: 190 x 4, 190 x 4, 190 x 4

Morning bodyweight: 242.2

[BigA]

First post of today:

Tuesday

Squat (no belt): 305 x 5 x 5
Press (no belt): 140 x 5, 140 x 5, 140 x 5, 140 x 5, 140 x 5,
Weighted chin-ups: 15 x 4, 12.5 x 3, 12.5 x 3

Morning bodyweight (on Tuesday): 241

This was a good session. During my past few workouts, I feel like I have gotten past some sort of progress hump and now, things are feeling easier.

[BigA]

Second post of the day:

Thursday

SLDL (no belt + hook grip + chalk): 370 x 5, 370 x 5, 370 x 5
Press (no belt): 95 x 5 x 2
BW chins: 3

I tweaked my shoulder setting down the bar on deadlifts. Now that the bar is getting heavier, the set down is somewhat inconsistent. I need to work on that. Presses were fine, the chins aggravated it so after my 1 set of 3, I called it a day.

Morning bodyweight (on Thursday): 239.2

[BigA]

Squat (no belt): 335 x 3 x 2

No pressing today due to time. It's probably better this way anyways, it will give my shoulder more time to heal if it needs to. I dropped squat down to 3s.

Morning bodyweight: 242.8

[BigA]

Squat (no belt+no wraps): 295 x 5 x 5
Press (no belt): 135 x 5 x 5
Weighted Chin-ups: 12.5 x 4, 12.5 x 3, 12.5 x 2
Curls, Lateral Raises, Rear Lateral Raises

I took a short layoff due to school.

Im going to start to cut down to 230-225 (depending on how it goes). I saw a picture of myself standing beside normal sized people and I look like im starting to get fat. The mirror looks different than pictures. Besides, when I compete, I will need to be lean anyways. This will be a slow cut. Im thinking 1 pound per week is good. Maybe even slower than that, there is no rush. As long as there is progress, i'm good. After this cut, I will then very slowly increase my weight to 245, trying to minimize fat gain as much as possible. But I will worry about that when I get there. Strength is still the main goal.