Skating Strong - College Shredder's Journey to Strong

[Nicholas Racculia]

Eat more young Josh, eat more!

Jay the Beast is catching up quickly :-)

By the way, don't be too nice to Josiah...he is sipping right now on a Mai Tai on a beach in Hawaii...laughing at us Pennsylvanians for our foolish geography.

[joshmcintyre]

So here's the final results of the first two month run. I'm currently taking a hiatus to enjoy snowboarding. Doing some maintenance workouts and planning to get back at it in the spring.

BW: 127 -> 145

Squat 75 -> 225
DL 95 -> 215
OHP 65 -> 80
Bench 75 -> 110

The gains are massively coming in handy with Ski season. More power, more control, and I'm able to bounce back from falls much quicker. It's good.

[joshmcintyre]

Hey King of the Jews,

Good point. Actually, I should have mentioned, I'm still progressing upper body with bodyweight strength training (to mix it up a bit: pullups, dips, pushup progression, horizontal row progression) and I'm keeping my squat and deadlift at "maintenance" (225 and 215 respectively) when I can get to the gym so as to not tax my legs too much with the frequent riding. I'm eating above maintenance but not to the extent I did before (I'm still a skinny bastard at 6'0 145, so I need to EAT!)

I shan't let the precious gains slip away Enjoying mixing up the training a bit over the winter season.

[joshmcintyre]

Thanks for the advice, that's a good idea!

I ride an Airborne Marauder freeride bike.

I ride a Forum Contract snowboard, Sierra skis, a shop deck from my local park for a skateboard, and Remz OS4 rollerblades.

I have a pretty diverse set of hobbies, haha.

[joshmcintyre]

Ski season has been a hell of a success, but I've been too lazy to train. It's about time I get back to barbells:

2/14/14
Squat 1x5 1x4 205
Press 1x4 1x3 75
Power Clean 1x3 75
Pullups 3x4 BW

2/17/14
Squat 3x5 205
Bench Press 3x5 100
Deadlift 1x5 105
Chinups 1x4 2x5 BW

[joshmcintyre]

02/19/14

Squat 3x5 210
OHP 2x4 1x3 75
Power Clean 1x3 85
Pullup 1x4 2x3 BW

[joshmcintyre]

02/22/14
*Snowboarding event today. Light Squat/DL
Squat 1x5 135
DL 1x5 135
Bench 3x5 105
Chinup 3x5 BW

02/24/14
Squat 3x5 215
Power Clean 1x3 95
Press 1x4 2x3 75
Pullup 3x4 BW

[joshmcintyre]

02/28/14
Squat 3x5 220
DL 1x5 215
Bench 3x3 110

03/03/14
Squat 3x5 225
PC 1x3 105
Press 3x5 70 (Deload)
3x5 BW Pullups

[joshmcintyre]

03/06/14
Squat 1x1 230
DL 1x1 225
Bench 3x5 110
Chinups BW 3x6

[joshmcintyre]

Workout 03/10/14

Squat 1x4 1x1 230
DL 1x5 225
Bench 1x5 1x4 1x2 115
Chinup 1x6 1x4 1x3 BW