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    Hi there!
    Decided to share my training log here. I have been doing Starting Strength for about a month now. Please feel free to laugh at my miserable lifts. So, a bit about me:
    23 years old
    184cm
    ~80kg (last I checked, that was a long time ago)

    My lifts for now are:

    Squat 105kg*5*3
    Deadlift 130kg*5
    Bench 82,5kg*5*3
    OHP 52,5kg*5*3
    Powerclean 57,5kg*3*5

    My today's workout was:

    Squat:
    20*5
    40*5
    65*3
    85*2
    95*1
    107,5*5/5/3

    OHP:
    20*5
    30*5
    35*3
    40*2
    45*1
    52,5*5*3

    Powerclean

    20*5 (hang clean)
    30*5
    40*3
    45*2
    50*1
    57,5*3*5

    Chinups:

    Just the second time I'm doing weighted chinups.
    Bodyweight*5
    +7,5*5*5

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    Squat:
    20*5
    40*5
    65*3
    85*2
    95*1
    107,5*3/3/5

    Bench:

    20*5
    40*5
    60*3
    70*1 (was supposed to be two)
    80*1
    85*5/5/3

    Deadlift:
    50*5
    70*5
    90*3
    110*2
    125*1
    135*0

    Weighted dips:
    BW*5
    +15kg 5*5

    Mixed feelings from today. Firs of all, realised that I am not using my hamstrings AT ALL in the squat. The bounce is non existent, thus explaining my totally slow and weak squat... This in my opinion comes from my concern with depth. On the third set, I started concentrating on the hamstring bounce and FINALLY managed to feel it. This resulted in an easy set of five. This however raises my concerns with depth. The hammies are tight, so I might be a bit above parallel, but they should get stretched out and the depth should be ok then.

    The bench was very easy for the first two sets. Then the guy who was spotting me left, and I foolishly decided, that since the first two were so easy, the third one will be light as well. WRONG. Got three (or maybe four?..) and the last one just did not go up. Rolled the barbell off myself... A good lesson for me.

    The deadlift just needs deloading.

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    Squat:

    20*5
    40*5
    60*3
    85*2
    95*1
    107,5*5*3

    Overhead press

    20*5
    30*5
    35*3
    40*2
    50*1
    55*5/4/3

    Powerclean:

    20*5
    30*5
    40*3
    50*3
    55*2
    60*3*5

    Chinups:

    Bw*5*2
    +10kg*5*5/5/3/4/3

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    Squat:
    20*5
    60*5
    80*3
    95*2
    105*1
    110*5/4/2

    Bench:
    20*5
    40*5
    60*3
    70*2
    80*1
    85*5*3

    Deadlift:

    60*5
    80*5
    100*3
    110*2
    120*1
    130*5

    Dips:
    BW*5
    +17,5Kg*5*5

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    Welcome to the board.

    A suggestion: perhaps you might consider having more spacing between warmup sets and work sets? Gym time is valuable, and you have maybe 45min to an hour before fatigue and low blood sugar become an issue. That's totally aside from the acute fatigue of extra work on muscles. Ignore me if you have a plan (ie maybe want to practice heavy technique, or feel you need more volume.)

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    Thanks for the welcome! Hope to stick around for quite some time.
    Yeah, I am starting to think that my warm-up sets are a bit too intense. I do spend way more than a hour in the gym every time. I'll try to do a few sets with an empty bar, and progress over the next three warm-up sets to my working weight. Maybe I should use 5 warm up sets just for squats, and limit the warm-up to three sets for other exercises?
    Anyway, today's workout was quite bad. Ate very small breakfast before leaving home, and only ate an orange before gym. That's five hours without food before lifting. Not good... Almost fainted doing 62,5kg powercleans. Sad...

    Squat:
    20*5
    50*5
    70*3
    90*2
    100*1
    110*5/5/2

    Overhead press:
    20*5
    30*5
    40*3
    45*2
    50*1
    55*5/3/4

    Powerclean:
    20*5
    30*5
    40*3
    50*2
    55*1
    62,5*3//1/0 Stopped here.

    Chinups:

    +10kg 5*5

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taiga View Post
    Ate very small breakfast before leaving home, and only ate an orange before gym. That's five hours without food before lifting. Not good...
    You get a pass for this once, because you didn't know. After that, treat it as a pass/fail intelligence test

    Actually, I used to play squash for an extended session on Fridays. You could SEE the low blood sugar fucking with decision making from outside the court.

    I used to put a banana into one of my workout shoes before leaving home. Now I'm lifting at home, I have a bunch of bananas on top of my stack of plates as a gentle hint, because I've been known to fail the intelligence test...

    Just saying

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    Quote Originally Posted by slowjoe View Post
    You get a pass for this once, because you didn't know. After that, treat it as a pass/fail intelligence test
    I actually knew that. FAIL - I'm an idiot. And bananas are my friends as well. Just did not have any of them at the moment.

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    Squat:
    20*5*2
    50*4
    70*3
    90*2
    110*5*3

    Benchpress:
    20*5
    60*3
    80*2
    87,5*4/3/2

    Deadlift:
    50*5
    90*3
    120*2
    132,5*5

    Dips:
    BW*5
    +20kg 5*5

    Good day today. Bench could have been better, had problems with spotters. Reducing the warm up sets felt way better. I think I'll do it like this from now on.

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    starting strength coach development program
    Squat:
    20*5*2
    60*4
    80*3
    100*2
    112,5*4/3/3

    Overhead press
    20*5
    40*4
    50*2
    55*5*3

    Powerclean:
    20*5
    40*3
    55*2
    62,5*3*5

    Chinups:
    +12,5kg*5/5/5/4/3

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