Black_Spit Starting Strength

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Cool!

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I woke up not feeling very well this morning. Sore throat... green/brown stuff coming out of my throat. I forced myself to the gym anyway telling myself that it's just a sinus thing because of the quick weather change. Last two nights, the temperature has gone from 60's to 30's.

Anyway, I think I'm going to have to reset Presses. Pretty sure I won't be able to go up later this week, even 2.5 more pounds... though I might give it a try, and reset if I fail.

Squat-
135x5
225x3
315x1
345x5
345x5
345x5

Press-
95x5
135x5
175x5
175x5
175x5

edit: My wrists are really starting to hurt, too, even with my Inzer wrist wraps.

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Resetting is not a bad thing, but as long as you are getting all of your reps, you don't need to.

Make sure that the bar is sitting on the heel of your hand and not in your palm. There is less stress on the wrists that way.

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Light Squat-
135x5
225x5
275x3
315x3

Bench Press-
135x5
185x3
225x1
255x5
255x5
255x5

Power Cleans-
45x3
170x3
170x3
170x3
170x3
170x3

Bench Press is the only thing that doesn't seem to be getting any harder at this point. The only thing that doesn't feel like I have to push myself to 99% just to finish my sets/reps.

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Tough workout today. Last week, I finally made good on what I've been saying for 14 weeks now, that I was going to fix my diet and lose some of this fat. So I think today is just getting used to having less stored glycogen and lower energy from fewer calories than I was used to there for a while. I think I will adjust, I'm certainly not starving lol, I'm eating enough. But, reducing carbs especially will affect performance in the beginning, and I was prepared for that.

Anyway, I failed trying to move my 3rd rep of my 1st set on Press. I racked it for 10 seconds, took a few deep breaths, and knocked out 3 more. I didn't want to admit defeat and move down in weight, nor did I want to keep failing, next time on the 2nd rep, so I cut it off after the 1st set. I didn't let that bother me and I moved up in Deadlifts and knocked out my 1x5. Then, for the second time in my 14 weeks, I did something completely unprescribed... I did curls lol. 3x10.

Light Squat-
135x5
225x3
315x2

Press-
45x5
95x5
135x3
177.5X 2/3 (total = 5)

Deadlifts-
350x5

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At this point, I've been feeling mentally and physically drained. So, I'll look at this week as a deload week as I only squatted once, and a light day at that.

All in all, I'd say that it's pretty amazing that I almost made it back up to my old weights in such a short time on a linear program. But I can feel that it's time to move forward.

I bought 5/3/1 along the way too, so I'm kind of considering that, too. As I understand it, Wendler has a 4 day/week variation in his book, too, and I kind of feel like mixing things up a little bit and maybe doing that too, do I'm not 100% sure I'm going straight to TM. I'll think about it this weekend.