“A path is made by walking on it.” Jan's log

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11.08.2016

SQ: 20 kg x 5 x 2, 50 x 5, 75 x 4, 100 x 3, 120 x 1, 145 kg x 5, 142.5 kg x 5, 140 kg x 5, 137.5 kg x 5 x 2. The last rep of each set was kinda slow, it felt like, but who knows, I didn't time it. I made all the reps, happy about that.

Chins assisted with black band: 8 x 3. I wonder if I will ever be able to do a real chin-up? Time will tell.

SGDL: 50 kg x 5, 70 x 4, 90 x 3, 105 x 1, 120 kg x 8 x 2. Ready to go lie down after that last set, but stayed on my feet and put everything away instead.

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he last rep of each set was kinda slow, it felt like, but who knows, I didn't time it. I made all the reps, happy about that.

Chins assisted with black band: 8 x 3. I wonder if I will ever be able to do a real chin-up? Time will tell.

SGDL: 50 kg x 5, 70 x 4, 90 x 3, 105 x 1, 120 kg x 8 x 2. Ready to go lie down after that last set, but stayed on my feet and put everything away instead.

Good work. Squats probably looked better than they felt, plus you made all the reps

Chin ups are hard. I think you'll get to bodyweight if you keep plugging away at it intelligently.

Also very impressed that you didn't lay down after the SGDL sets of 8!!

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Good work.

Thanks!

Squats probably looked better than they felt, plus you made all the reps

Chin ups are hard. I think you'll get to bodyweight if you keep plugging away at it intelligently.

Also very impressed that you didn't lay down after the SGDL sets of 8!!

I'm pretty sure the last rep on the 145 kg squat set was kinda slow, the others probably just felt like they were slow.

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From my earlier log:

“The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one’s feet.” Jan's log

So far I have lost about 1.5 kg, or about 3 pounds or so. But there's been a lot of barbecue parties and so on this summer, so I don't feel too bad that it's going slowly. I haven' exactly been counting my calories all the time.

[57bergstrm]

11.08.2016

SQ: 20 kg x 5 x 2, 50 x 5, 75 x 4, 100 x 3, 120 x 1, 145 kg x 5, 142.5 kg x 5, 140 kg x 5, 137.5 kg x 5 x 2. The last rep of each set was kinda slow, it felt like, but who knows, I didn't time it. I made all the reps, happy about that.

Chins assisted with black band: 8 x 3. I wonder if I will ever be able to do a real chin-up? Time will tell.

SGDL: 50 kg x 5, 70 x 4, 90 x 3, 105 x 1, 120 kg x 8 x 2. Ready to go lie down after that last set, but stayed on my feet and put everything away instead.

I must say your lifting is going really strong. Well done!

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I must say your lifting is going really strong. Well done!

Thank you Lars!

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14.08.2016

So, big party last night, way to much eating and drinking, but here goes:

BP: 20 kg x 5 x 2, 40 x 5, 60 x 3, 75 x 1, 91 kg x 5 x 5. That was difficult for me, but I had decided to make all the reps! And I did.

OHP: 20 x 5 x 2, 30 x 5, 40 x 4, 50 x 2, 56 kg x 6 x 3. These felt heavy right after the bench, but I made all reps.

Barbell curls: 20 kg x 5 x 2, 25 x 4, 30 x 3, 35 x 2, 38 kg x 8 x 3. Just because I haven't done barbell curls for a while.

[Bergstedt]

1,5 kg is always 1,5 kg. Good work.

Also very impressive work put in since I last checked in. I like to see that you're soldiering on with the SGDLs!

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1,5 kg is always 1,5 kg. Good work.

Thanks, Levi. I'll get there, it'll just take a little while longer than I anticipated.

Also very impressive work put in since I last checked in. I like to see that you're soldiering on with the SGDLs!

Yeah, well, about those SGDLs ..............

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16.08.2016

Heavy day. Sort of. AKA this madness has to stop. Or, why are we doing this again?

I didn't feel too good warming up, sweat pouring and short of breath. Fun!


SQ: 20 kg x 5 x 2, 50 x 5, 75 x 4, 100 x 3, 120 x 1, 140 kg x 5, 5, 1, 3. Back-off 125 kg x 5 x 2.

This was ( or felt ) much heavier than it should have, and on the third work set I crashed down on the safeties after only one rep. Removed all plates, got the bar up on the hooks again,
loaded all the plates back on and barely managed 3 more reps. Reloaded the bar with 125 kg and did two sets of fives. Even that was heavy / difficult. Oh well ( insert suitable swear words here )( and add some more four letter words just because ).

OHP: 20 kg x 5 x 2, 30 x 5, 40 x 4, 51 x 2, 62.5 kg x 5, 4, 5, 4, 4. Back-off 50 kg x 8, 20 kg x 10.

That was supposed to be 62.5 kg x 5 x 5, of course, but it was not to be. Being a bit angry with myself I did the 50 kg x 8, and that was easy, and then 10 reps with the empty bar just to relax my shoulders.

SGDL: 50 kg x 5, 75 x 4, 100 x 3, 125 kg x 8 x 2.

The "cardio SGDLs"! They might be useful, but they don't make me feel too good! I've got my breath back by now, tho, so it's not too bad.


The last two weeks I have just been fooling around with the lifts. One might say I am currently "between programs". I'm not sure what to do, but I'm thinking of maybe doing a four day program, but spreading it out, so I lift 3 days in one week and the last day at the beginning of next week and so on. I'll figure something out eventually.