Age 30
BW 153kg
Ph.D. student at an American university, born in Brazil.
Background: Started in a gym in October 2020, totally sedentary prior to that.
Did StrongLifts for a few months, between January and April of 2020.
I was lost in the advanced novice / early intermediate phase and lost a lot of strength in July doing to quarantine and international travel.
*** Previous maxes:
Squat - 200kg in late May
Deadlift - 200kg with straps in late May, 160kg without straps in late May
Press - 70kg for 2 reps in early July
Bench - 100kg in early July
*** Last week lifts:
Squat: 335lb x 7 x 1
Deadlift: 335lb x 7 x 1 (without straps)
Bench: 175lb x 7 x 1
Press: 125lb x 7 x 1
*** Goal
Stay at least two months in the novice linear progression, doing the program exactly as told. I have the problem of changing program too much.
I should have tried 325lb on Squat but misloaded it to 320lb. The Press was very heavy and close to failure, but I am positively surprised I could do it with that weight. The Power Clean was done for the first time, it was closer to a Muscle Clean but with time and practice I hope to improve it. However, I am happy to have faced the power clean instead of doing Rows.
Failed the overhead press today, either 5lb was too big of an increase or I didn't rest enough for the warm-ups and choose bad reps and weight scheme.
I think I am gonna change the Press and Bench order, and also change the Press increments to 2.5lb instead of 5lb.
The press felt so heavy I can't believe I had done 135x5x3 recently.
I wonder if the caloric deficit is interfering, probably it is. But right now losing weight is my priority, not the NLP.
The workout was yesterday on Friday but I forget to post.
I decided to back off a little and do only 1 set of each workout.
My intention is a very restrictive diet, so keeping intensity high may be better because I will not build muscle anyway, just trying to keep some of it.