Texas Method Log

[TXYM]

M/18/200-205lbs/5'10

Started lifting seriously around August 2010, did Starting Strength and put on 40lbs in less than a month. Got shoulder issues around Christmas and stopped lifting for a month. Got back to linear progression at January 6th 2011 and did Greyskull LP for a while. I'm already on my third week of texas method now. Only doing texas method for squat and deadlift. Linear progression on bench and press.

Curent lifting status
Squat: 375lbs:5
Deadlift: 395lbs:5
Bench: 210lbs:5-5-5
Press: 130lbs:5-5-5

2011-05-22
Squat: 295lbs, 300lbs, 305lbs, 310lbs and 315lbs for 5reps each
Bench: 205lbs: 5-5-5

2011-05-24
Squat: 225lbs: 5-5
Press: 135lbs: 4-3

2011-05-26
Squat: 370lbs: 5
Bench: 205lbs: 5-5-5
Deadlift: 390lbs: 5

[TXYM]

2011-05-29
Squat 315lbs: 5-5-5-5-5
Press 125: 5-5-5

2010-05-31
Squat 225lbs: 5-5
Bench 207.5lbs: 5-5-5
Curls: 85lbs: 7 and 65lbs: 14
Shrugs: 225lbs: 8 and 135lbs: 14

2011-06-03
Squat 375lbs:5
Press 127.5lbs: 5-5-5
Deadlift: 395lbs: 5

[TXYM]

2010-06-06
Squat 325lbs: 5-5-5-5-5
Bench 210: 5-5-4 (The last set I went too fast on the first three reps and got a left hamstring cramp)

2010-06-08
Press 130lbs: 5-5-5
Squat 225lbs: 5-5

[Rob Israel]

Nice numbers! Be careful on your volume day squat tho. Doesn't necessarily have to go up every week. I've read to raise it only once a month. If it's enough stimulus to push the intensity day higher, you are good. Don't need to keep driving it north at the same rate.

[TXYM]

Rob

Thank you for your comment and advice. I just want to keep the poundage between the volume day and intensity at around 60lbs from what I read in Justin Lascek's book.

Also 315 and 325lbs for volume day is quite easy. I can finish all five sets in 25-30min. I am only going to raise every two weeks and if the volume day becomes too unberable, I'll probably slow the progress down for volume day.

[Rob Israel]

Cool, sounds like you are informed, strong enough and recovering ok. I made the mistake of going too hard on volume dy and had to reload and recover. When I mentioned "read" I ws referring to Justin' book, so glad to see you got it too-- great stuff, right?
Good luck, nice work and keep going heavy!

[TXYM]

2011-06-10
Squat: 380lbs: 5
Bench: 210lbs: 5-5-5
Deadlift: 400lbs: 4 (The 5th rep went a little bit pass my knees, it stuck for a couple of seconds and I pussed out)

Rob, Justin's book is very informing and I learnt a lot from that book although it was a little bit overpriced considering the Practical Programming was also around 30$

Anyways, I'm happy that I got it.

[TXYM]

2011-06-11

Fasted lawn mowing: 45min-1hour

Burpees: 10-10-10 with 1:00 rest in between
Average time around 25sec per 10 burpees

Trying to take out some belly fat, so fasted walking or any really really light stuff five mornings a week on days that is not intensity or volume day.

And 3 sets of burpees five days a week without doing it the day before intensity or volume day. Increase 1 rep to every set when making the set in the time frame of rep number times 3sec. Trying to get to do 100 burpees in five minutes which is the Villain Challenge #1 of the GreySkull founder Johnny Sheaffer.

Also no complex carbs such as rice or pasta after lunch with the exception of post workout.

[Rob Israel]

Rob, Justin's book is very informing and I learnt a lot from that book although it was a little bit overpriced considering the Practical Programming was also around 30$

Yeah, I agree it's a bit overpriced, especially since there are no printing costs! It's pretty awesome reference though and great that he goes into so much depth and variation for the program-- Rip deals with it at a pretty general manner and really glosses over the nitty gritty-- Justin's book has enough info for me to train using the TM for years it seems.

"Fasted lawn mowing" pretty funny...
I intrigued by your burpee approach. I need to start doing some conditioning again-- I may take a hack at this.

One question for you-- I've been really careful to eat hearty the morning after my Volume day so as to make sure recovery is happening as best as possible. How concerned about that meal are you-- do you skip breakfast or just postpone it?

[TXYM]

2011-06-13
Squat: 325lbs: 5-5-5-5-5
Press: 132.5lbs: 5-5-5

Burpees: 11-11-11 with one min rest
Time: 23-24-23sec

I get all my diet information from Johnny Pain's website: www.strengthvillain.com as well as the fasted conditioning in the morning and the burpees. I am also doing 2 high intensity conditioning workouts per week and each one does not exceed 10minutes. I'm doing them on the days after volume and intensity day.

I drink a shake 50-50 carbs to protein right after my fasted cardio and eat a big meal around an hour later. I think that just constantly eating a lot on volume day and the days that follow helps the recovery and the one hour or less of fasted cardio does not make too much difference. Johnny Pain focuses a lot on getting lean and strong at the same time. After a night of sleeping, the glycogen storage is nearly depleted and the walking would "burn" some excess fat. But only affective after accumulate after at least four months.

The most important thing is too eat enough to recover, tho.