For the Love of The Barbell

[thebluefarm]

You turkeys have inspired me to post some goals.

1. Really do the program and take full advantage of the novice stage. Eat, sleep, lift.

[Anthony King]

Well, she's only 30lbs away. And I saw your original comment, LOL.

Original comment was made by my wife, who was reading on my iPod and responded.

[thebluefarm]

8/3/14

Squat: 80x5x3
BP: 58x5x3

I didn't DL because I was tired and PMSing. I'm just happy I got out there.

ETA: BP felt unusually good. Legs were weary; arms were ready to go. Weird.

[thebluefarm]

Goals for LP:

Press 55
Bench Press 82
Squat 110
Deadlift 159

[thebluefarm]

8/6/14

SQ

33x5x2
43x3x1
58x2x1
75x1x1
82x3x5

Introduced power cleans today. I used the training bar and some wooden training plates made for me by my husband. I read the chapter is SS a few times last week and followed the instructions. What can I say? I nailed it and it was the funnest thing ever. Video forthcoming. Pretty sure I'm neither especially quick nor powerful, but I'm going whole hog anyway.

I, um, accidentally did an experiment to see if drinking vodka at the lake with your sister in the afternoon will affect your performance if you lift in the early evening. It will. Ahem. I decided to finish my lifts this morning.

8/7/14

OHP
15x5x2
20x3x1
25x2x1
33x1x1
39x3x5

DL 132x5x3

[thebluefarm]

8/9/14

SQ
33x7x1
45x3x1
65x2x1
75x1x1
85x5x3x3x4

BP
light weight, high rep for anterior deltoid strain
15x11x1
15x25x3

BE
3 sets of 10*

HIIT on bike, 8 rounds of 20sec super hard/2min easy

[thebluefarm]

8/11/14

SQ
33x5x1
45x3x1
55x3x1
65x3x1
75x1x2
90x3x5 PR

DL
53x5x1
75x3x1
98x1x1
123x1x1
137x5x3 PR

skipped OHP, did assisted p/u for 3 sets of AMRAP, 6/5/5

[thebluefarm]

OMG, it's as bad as I thought or even worse.

I just looked at that chart for 1RMs, and after 19 weeks, my 1RM for BP is "untrained." That means I was as weak as a kitten and now I'm as strong as a kitten? WTF. I mean, I knew I wasn't impressing anyone...but damn. So weak. On the bright side, my DL 1RM promises to be intermediate in the next couple weeks. On one hand, who cares? I'm better off than I was 19 weeks ago. I'm going with that perspective.

[thebluefarm]

8/14/14

SQ
33x5x1
43x5x1
65x2x1
80x1x1
93x3x5

OHP
15x5x1
20x5x1
25x3x1
35x2x1
40x3x5

PC
21x3x3
26x3x1
45x3x3

Practicing and recording my second PC sesh. I think I'm curling the bar up on some reps. Will keep at it. I get tired way before I get tired of doing these. So. Much. Fun. Not like pinche squats; dem are no fun.

[thebluefarm]

8/17

SQ
33x5x1
43x3x1
53x2x1
70x1x1
80x1x1
96x3x5

Chin-ups, assisted with red, yellow, and blue stretchy bands, 8/5/6 PR