CMG's Log

[cgeorg]

Started as a:
6'0,
190lb
32yo male

Had done SS a couple times in the past w/o the book. No real records that I could find. This time around, not really sure why I'm doing it, but LP is fun. I hope it lasts for a while because I feel like once I hit intermediate I'll need to figure out what I actually want to get out of this. As of now I just bowl, so as long as I have ok core, leg and wrist strength, non-skill work doesn't really help. Maybe I'll actually get in a softball league or something. Oh also I'm bad at sleep and a vegetarian. I started low and have been keeping my increases quite reasonable to prolong LP as long as possible.

I started back in February.

Week 1

2/2/16
Squat 95x5x3
Press 45x5x3
Dead 135x5(x3?)

2/4/2016
Squat 105x5x3
Bench 85x5x3
Dead 155x5(x3?)

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Week 2

2/8/2016
Squat 115x5x3
Press 55x5x3
Dead 165x5

2/10/2016
Squat 125x5x3
Bench 95x5x3
Dead 175x5
Chins BWx3

2/12/2016
BW: 187
Squat 135x5x3
Press 65x5x3
Clean 95x3x3
Back Ext BWx15

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Week 3

2/15/2016
Squat 140x5x3
Bench 100x5x3
Dead 185x5
Chins BWx3, x2, x1

2/18/2016
Squat 145x5x3
Press 75x5x3
Clean 105x3x3

2/20/2016
Squat 150x5x3
Bench 105x5x3
Dead 195x5
Chins BWx2, x3, x2

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Week 4

I had a rough week outside of the gym in week 3 that carried over into week 4 in the gym.

2/23/2016
Squat 155x5x3
Press 80x5x3
Clean 110x3x1 (I have a note that says "bad")
Back Ext BWx10x3

2/25/2016
BW: 186
Squat 160x5x3
Bench 110x5x3
Dead 205x5
Chins BWx3, x3, x2

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Week 5

3/4/2016
Squat 165x5x3 (Tough)
Press 85x5x3 (Tough)
Clean 110x3x3
Back Ext BWx10x3

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Week 6

3/7/2016
BW: 187
Squat 170x5x3 (Ok)
Bench 115x5x3 (Rough)
Dead 215x5 (Good)
Chins BWx3x3

3/9/2016
Squat 175x5x3 (Good)
Press 90x5x3 (Sucks oww)
Clean 115x3x3 (Last one tough each tim)
Back Ext BWx11x3

3/11/2016
Squat 180x5x3 (Fuckin great)
Bench 120x5x3 (Bad, ok, eh)
Dead 225x5 (Tough #5)
Chins BWx3, x3, x2

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Week 7

3/14/2016
Squat 185x5x3 (Whew)
Press 95x5, x4 (Completely died on set 2)
Clean 120x3x3

3/16/2016
Squat 190x5x3 (Ok)
Bench 125x5x3 (Set 1 hard, 2 and 3 ok)
Dead 235x5 (#5 haaaard)
Chins BWx3x3

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Week 8

At this point I hadn't really read about what to do when sticking, so after the press stuck in the previews week and the clean stuck in this one, I just deloaded them both. Probably over-reacted on the cleans, but oh well. This is also when I ordered a bunch of .5lb plates to start microloading stuff because press was definitely going to need it, and I felt bench, cleans and squats might not be far behind. Also I was very excited to get to 200lbs for the squat here. The 240x1 I tweaked my back bad on the first pull, felt lucky I was able to move enough to unload the bar.

This was also the first week I decided to try to see how many calories I had actually been consuming, and what the breakdown was. Attempting to eat a good bit and fairly clean had me around 2700cal/day, which is clearly not enough.

3/21/2016
Squat 195x5x3 (Set 2 was real tough)
Press 85x5x3 (Manageable)
Clean 125x3, x3, x2 (Oh well)
Back Ext BWx12x3

3/23/2016
Squat 200x5x3 (Fine)
Bench 127x5x3 (Bad, ok, eh)
Dead 240x1

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Week 9

Started using a belt for DL.

3/29/2016
Squat 202x5x3 (Fine)
Press 87x5x3 (Tough still)
Clean 105x3x3 (Easy)
Back Ext BWx13x3

3/31/2016
Squat 205x5x3 (Tough but ok)
Bench 130x5x3 (First set tough, 3rd too)
Dead 240x5 (Fine)
Chins BWx3x3

4/2/2016
Squat 207x5x3 (Real hard)
Press 90x5x3 (Hard)
Clean 110x3x3 (Ok)
Back Ext BWx15x3

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Week 10

4/5/2016
Squat 210x5x3 (Last one was tough)
Bench 132x4x3 (I didn't have a spot and number 4 was real hard each time)
Dead 245x5
Chins BWx3x3

4/7/2016
Squat 212x5x3
Press 92x5x3 (Ok)
Clean 112x3x5 (This was when I realized I had not been doing enough sets of these)

4/10/2016
Squat 215x5x3 (Form not great for last 2)
Bench 135x5x3 (First time I ever put up 45s on bench. I felt great under the bar for all 3 sets)
Dead 250x5