Accountability Log, NEVER GIVING UP!
Time for an accountability log.
Male
46 years
Ht: 5’9”
Wt: 193
Training experience: Grew up athletic, sports ended fatness began, back into this for past 7 years.
Pretty much stay at home dad of 2 year old girl.
PR’s (all within last year)
Box Squat 325x5
Bench 300x1
Dead 365x1
Ready to get serious and consistent.
Started today with Starting Strength Novice program via the app.
Session notes: Been moderately sick for almost 2 weeks but tired of not moving some weights so I went for it. Post session I felt really good. Diet: Not enough calories.
Week 1 - Session #1 (Working sets only)
Squat (185) 5 5 5
Bench (185) 5 5 10
Dead (185) 5 5 10
Squat
I am not a good squatter, squatting in the past has been mostly box squats. I was able to get over 300 because I use to do a lot of core work. I didn’t have a good size bench to get to parallel so these were partial squats. I am looking forward to tightening my form and doing actual squats. Yesterday I was hesitant to do full depth squats because I always thought that they would hurt my knees. Even during warmups yesterday they were a little soar, then I worked on form and went for it. I don’t know why I was confident enough to even try 185 full depth, but a curious thing happened. With decent form and utilizing the stretch reflex I was able to do them pain free. I was astonished and super excited about this. Today I am very soar and it feels great. I am going to tread carefully with these but am looking forward to seeing where it can go in the next weeks and on.
Bench
This is starting low for me but I haven’t been consistent so wanted to started here. I think in the next weeks I can up this quickly but this was a great place to start. Slight DOMS from yesterday’s session.
Dead
Here is another where I started on the low end of where I should have because I am not feeling well and want to get used to the new programming i chose to start here. I will asses over the next and make increases as needed.
This was a very successful first session. I am looking forward to things to come.