He who makes a beast of himself...

[TartanEagle]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with your numbers. Keep working hard and they will just keep going up.

[jameson]

3/12/10
Squat: 45x5x1, 135x5x1, 185x3x1, 225x3x1, 245x1x1, 270x5x3

Still sick...trained this morning and will do presses and cleans this afternoon. I had to widen my grip on the bar as I was noticing pain/tightness in my elbows.

Squat: fairly hard and moving the weight very slowly but still progressing.

Afternoon...

Clean: 45x5x1, 95x5x1, 130x5x1 (went up 15lbs to match press - no rack)
Press: 130x5x3 (cleaned each set^)

Clean: form still off but getting better I suppose
Press: elbows hurt when switching grip; went up nice and easy like...

*Oh, and still sick. Felt worse for afternoon session.

[jameson]

3/16/10
Squat: 45x5x1, 135x5x1, 185x5x1, 225x3x1, 245x1x1, 275x5x3
Bench: 135x5x1, 200x5x3
DL: 225x5x1, 245x5x1

And I'm still sick... grumbles

Squat: went up pretty easy, took longer rests - maybe 5 mins or so

Bench: again, went up pretty easy

DL: I reset and will make 10lb jumps to start; I'll probably add in some rack pulls for low back. This coupled with foam rolling and stretching my hamstrings ought to help my pull form.

Probably going to invest in a belt and shoes pretty soon. Happy with my session.

[jameson]

Shoes: I was asked to spread the word.

Email Rich Benoy for VS Athletics shoes (same deal on white/black shoes). $48 + $10 shipping. All he needs is an address and credit card number (preferably your own or at least not mine).

http://www.vsathletics.com/section.p...ccef7516c4d870

rbenoy1323@yahoo.com
rich@vsathletics.com

Happy Lifting.

(Anyone know if Inzer belts are made in the US? Apparently, EFS will be outsourcing their belts from now on.)

[jameson]

3/18/10
Squat: 145x5x1, 195x5x1, 225x3x1, 245x3x1, 280x5x3
Press: 135x5x3
DL: 135x10

Still sick...

Squat: went up just fine.

Press: noticed my elbows hurting after squat, AND A NOTE TO ALL YOU SPOTTERS OUT THERE.....SPOT! DON'T HELP WITH THE LIFT!!! I had a guy who "guided my elbows" on my 4th rep of my last set. I was cheated. Luckily, I know I can lift the weight so I'll still add 5lbs next session.

I cleaned 135lbs but couldn't rack because of my elbows. Going to buy sleeves today. DL'd the weight for 10 just for giggles.

[jameson]

3/20/10
Squat: 45x5x1, 135x5x1, 185x5x1, 225x3x1, 245x1x1, 285x5x3
Bench: 135x5x1, 185x1x1, 135x10x3
DL: 225x5x1, 255x5x1

Squat: it felt like the bar was sliding down my back on first set. This caused me to lose focus and made the set pretty difficult. I gripped the bar a little wider and wrapped my thumb around the bar. This actually made the squats easier so I'll stick with this on my work sets. This may help my elbows, too...

Bench: elbows killing me. My 185 warmup hurt so bad I couldn't go on. I tried shifting my elbow postion as I usually tuck pretty hard. They might have felt a little better flaring them out more...hard to tell.

DL: went up fine but elbows hurt at lock out.

Frustrated about elbow pain.

[jameson]

3/25/10

I've had some kind of respiratory sickness for the last two weeks, and Monday night, 3/22, I came down with a stomach virus. I trained through the coughing and achiness, but there's no way I'm going to lift after losing a few pounds to puking and such. I might try to lift this Saturday or next Tuesday. We'll see how it goes.

I got some serious Star Wars and Akira Kurosawa movie-watchin' in though!

*Little known fact: Kurosawa's movie The Hidden Fortress was the basis for Lucas' Star Wars. Notice the similarities between Tahei and Matashichi along with R2-D2 and C-3PO.

[DustyMillar]

hope you start feeling better soon.

if your taking advice MINE would consist of " take a week off, then down scale a couple of work loads on the return".

Although I think the use of your "spare" is truly inspired.

[jameson]

hope you start feeling better soon.

if your taking advice MINE would consist of " take a week off, then down scale a couple of work loads on the return".

Although I think the use of your "spare" is truly inspired.

Thanks man. Feeling much better, but not quite 100%. I'll probably ramp up to see what feels good.

[jameson]

A woman gets a call from her 20-something son who has Down Syndrome. He’s calling her to say she needs to come home as he’s caught a gnome. She, of course, says she can’t and that she’ll be home when she gets off work. He persists and calls her every 30 minutes or so saying he’s got the gnome locked up in his bedroom closet and she needs to see it! Apparently, he was proud of his catch. When the woman gets off work she drives home, and is greeted by her overly excited son. She follows him into his bedroom and unlocks the closet door to find that her son has thrown the midget meter man in his closet! Apparently, her son had tackled him thinking he was a lawn gnome trying to escape. The poor meter man was afraid the son would hurt him so he played along and stayed quiet till the mom got home.

Made me laugh…pretty hard. Thought I’d share it.