Late arrival to SS

[alex_tait]

10/8/2011
Single Arm DB OHP 35kg
4 right 3 left
2 right 3 left
5 right 5 left

I don't know what could cause this. Perhaps I need to spend longer warming up. I now see that the problem with a db is when I load more plates onto the db I am forced to press the db with the db further and further away from my shoulder.

[alex_tait]

12/8/2011
Single Arm DB OHP 36kg
5 right 4 left
5 right 5 left Did 4 left then picked the db up again after failing the 5th and did an 8 second grinding rep with the left
5 right 5 left.

[alex_tait]

15/8/2011
Bench Press 2x5 97.5kg 1x5 87.5kg 1x5 100kg I was sharing the bench with this dude and I miss loaded the weight on the third set. On the final set he told me 2.5kg wouldn't make a difference so I just went with it.
Squat 165kg 1x5 1x3 1x1
DB Rows 3x5 46kg
Curls 3x8 14kg DBs

On the squat I just tired. I have developed this bad of waking up in the middle of the night and just not being able to go back to sleep. I am thinking of just reading some boring ass book to resume my slumber.

[alex_tait]

17/8/2011
Single Arm DB OHP 37.5kg
5 right 5 left
5 right 4 left
5 right 5 left

[alex_tait]

22/8/2011
Bench Press with the worst form ever 3x5 100kg
Squat 165kg 4/5/3 Once again I had bar sliding issues. On the last rep of the last set the bar was literally halfway down my back.
DB Rows 3x5 48kg
Curls

I need to sort out this bar sliding. Also my wrists feel like they are going to snap when I squat.

[alex_tait]

30/8/2011
OHP 70kg 5/4/1 I think it's time for 1x5 on these now.
Squat 165kg 3x5. Was more weary of positioning but the bar still slided.
DB Rows 3x5 50kg
Curls

It seem that by the time my squat and bench will be done for 1x5 I will be on a madcow type progression for the ohp. Not sure how I would program that.

[alex_tait]

5/9/2011
Squat 170kg 1x3 150kg 2x5
Military Press 1x5 71kg
Chinups 3x6

My bodweight is 83kg. Moving stuff around during voluntary work and on the train back home has made me lose weight. I also need to do some posture fixing exercises to stop this really bad hunched forward posture I have. It's making it impossible to maintain a tight upper back on the squat and ohp.

[alex_tait]

10/8/2011
Bench Press 102.5kg 3/3/2
Squat 3x5 155kg

There is so little food in my home atm so I'm gonna have to drink 5 protein shakes a day until I leave. What should've been an easy squat today proved very difficult. The last rep lasting around 8 seconds on the lifting stage. I aim to get my bodyweight as back up as quickly as possible and fix my leverages. A personal trainer there told me to take the weight down because my form was really bad. He said that I am supposed be as upright as possible. They just don't know that you have to lean forward in order to balance the fact that you are sitting bad. He also looked like the heaviest weight he ever lifted was a pencil and a clipboard.I just politely nodded my head. My form is pretty bad atm as my upper back just never seems to stay straight. On Monday I will be working out with a friend of mine who will be able to record my lifts and I can put them up on here for you to criticize.

tbh I feel that I am within my right to tell people like that personal trainer to fuck off but that is just me. I will also never work out without breakfast again. On my last set I was so closed to puking all over the floor.

[alex_tait]

12/8/2011
OHP 72.5kgx0 67.5kgx4
Really don't know wtf happened. Perhaps I just wasn't recovered from the bench press.
Deadlift 140kg 1x5
Just started doing these again for the sake of strengthening my lower back. I realize a few weren't fully locked out. Just haven't done this exercise in a very long time and have forgotten what it feels like to be fully locked out.
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Gonna have a deload in both OHP and bench.

[alex_tait]

14/8/2011
Bench Press 3x5 92.5kg
Squat 160kg 5/5/4
Chinups 7/7/6

I should've done the deload with squats too. Unfortunately my friend had to go before I started squatting so I wasn't able to get any vids. I dunno what weight to deload to though. I managed to get one of the sets of my bench press recorded.