Sounds good. We are at about the same level except I've been doing SS for 2 months to get mine.
I recently finished reading starting strength. I have been barbell lifting for several years now, followed by a few months of crossfitting. I am still weak, because I have been a pansy about eating enough and increasing the weights on my lifts. But two months ago, I decided to man up, drink my milk and start adding weight to the bar. In the next 6 months or so, I hope to officially become an adult male. I'm 185 right now, and I think I could reasonably get to 200 in the next 15 weeks.
I will try to regularly update this log. One day, I will come back, read through the whole thing and laugh about how pathetically weak I once was.
Stuff I still need to buy:
-Olympic shoes (what do you guys recommend---I've heard rogue is the best deal)
-Weight belt [ordered $20 4 inch belt from bb.com]
-Wraps
-Gripper (my grip is by far the limiting factor on my deadlift---I figure working with a gripper might help me improve in this area?)
-Fat grips [ordered]
-Chalk [ordered]
-Practical programming [ordered]
PR's.
Squat: I squatted 275x1 (10/09), 260x5 (12/1/09)
Deadlift: 310x1 (10/09), 250x5 (12/1/09)
Squat clean: 155x1 (12/1/09)
Power clean: 155x1 (08/09)
Press: 135x1 (10/09), 105x5 (11/30/09)
Jerk: 155x1 (10/09)
OHS: 65x3
Snatch: I think 65x1
Last edited by strongdaniel; 12-04-2009 at 01:01 AM.
Sounds good. We are at about the same level except I've been doing SS for 2 months to get mine.
are the snatch and ohs in kgs or lbs?
That's a good question about the grip, I'm not at the point my grip is limiting me, and I hope that deadlift will be enough to strengthen the grip for quite some time, but I'd like to know myself WWRS (What Would Rip Say).
I just bought a set of 6 grippers--100# trainer all the way thu 350# job--from a link in Danial Evans sig. It cost me about $100 including shipping.
http://www.griptraining.co.uk
If you are in the US like me, you'll have to follow the US link to order. It's somewhere in there on the main page. Main page also has a very simple beginner grip program to follow.
I like the grippers a lot. In just 3 grip workouts i've gone from not being able to close the 200# gripper, to closing it for 5 regular and inverted singles.
Oh and I like the Pendlay barbell Do Wins. The heel is probably a bit too high, but I don't notice it and really like the way they fit and feel.
Awesome user name.
I am doing double overhand on my warm ups, and then once I get to the point where I can't hold it double underhand, I switch to mixed grip. I am aware my deadlift blows. Isn't the rule of thumb: dl=1.333xsquat?
I will add chalk to my list of stuff to buy.
Monday Nov 30 2009
Shoulder Press
5x105x3
Dips: 10,10,4
Pullups: 8,7,3
Tuesday Dec 1 2009
Squats: High Bar Warmup
5x65
5x135
205
225x2
245
Worksets--Squats: Low bar
260x5
260x4
260x5 (PR)
Squat cleans (I spent the last three months learning how to do these and want to transition to olympic lifting at some point---is it cool if I do these instead of power cleans?)
Warmup
45x5
95x1
115x1
135x1
Worksets
6 sets of 145x1
1 set of 155x1 (PR)
Barbell curls (first time doing barbell curls)
8x65 (pr)
7x65 (pr)
Wednesday Dec 2, 2009
Bench press
Warmup:
8x45
8x135
2x185
Work sets
5x195
3x195 (damn spotter helped me out after I asked him not to! That said I was having trouble making it through that lift)
5x195
Note: my previous best was 3 full worksets of 195. But I didn't feel very fresh in my warm up and decided to not increase the weight, given my perception of fatigue was fairly high.
Questions:
1. Since I didn't complete the workset, should I repeat the same 5x3x195 next time I bench or should I up the weight a marginal amount?
2. Also---I had been doing 2 full body workouts a week (Work out A on monday/tuesday, work out B on friday/saturday). But after finishing starting strength, I started doing the three workouts a week. I feel so much better, and my progress is so much smoother on the 2 days a week. Am I being a pansy if I switch back to 2 days a week, or is that a valid strategy?