From Suck to Good: Plebe Year Log

[John Guerra]

11/22

Squat: 350 3x5 PR (10 minute rest between sets)

Summary: Big day for me today. 350 is somewhat of a milestone for me and I'm glad that I was able to get these on video too. I have the tendency to go about 2 inches too deep on my squats so I worked on that for my last two sets and was happy with how they looked. The 15th rep was one of the toughest reps I have ever done but I gutted it out. I'm thinking about going to 3x3 on Squats starting with 355 and seeing where I can end up with that. All in all I'm glad to have reached 350 on an LP and it is onwards and upwards from here. Bench and Power Clean tomorrow.

[John Guerra]

11/23

Bench 210 3x3 -- not bad
Power Clean 190 4 sets of 2 reps

Notes: Next Workout will be Tuesday most likely. Deadlift and Overhead press.

[carson]

Did you post your video someplace?

[John Guerra]

Carson: It wasn't my phone that took the video so no. Two things I always focus on as weight increases are not going so deep and cutting that little bit of knee-slide at the bottom. I will have videos for this next week as I'm finally returning to my home gym for a training session.

11/25/14

Light Squat 280 2x5

Overhead Press: 160 x 2 165x1 170x1 PR -- I contacted Coach Feigenbaum about programming so things will be changing for me probably. This explains why I decided to work up to a 1 rep max for today. Pretty happy with a 170 press considering my upperbody lifts have especially always sucked and I have around a 6 foot 6 wingspan so the bar travels a long way. I think I had 175, but decided not to push it today.

Deadlift 390 x 5 (5 rep PR) -- Hard but good. Used a mix grip as my grip was fatigued going into deadlifts today.

Post Workout: Played pick-up basketball for about an hour. Haven't played hard in awhile, but I was extremely happy with my performance as the 1 day a week of maintaining my skills has definitely been enough to stay sharp.

Summary: Another day logged in and guess what? Going back to NC for first time since I came here in June. Looking forward to the Thanksgiving day feast. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

[DavidCC]

Going back to NC for first time since I came here in June. Looking forward to the Thanksgiving day feast. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Best of luck getting home. Weather is supposed to be pretty bad along the East Coast.

[John Guerra]

Thanks David

11/29

Squat 355 x 5 375 x 1 395 x 1 400 x 1: PR City

Summary: Decided to work close to a One RM in the squat -- I will have video of 400 up soon. I'm happy with the 400 as I weighed in at 200.8 lbs prior to the workout so I've got a double bodyweight squat with just an LP so far which is nice. Didn't go any higher because my goal was 400.

[John Guerra]

12/9/14

Back and with a new program:

Power Clean 3x180 RPE 8.5 3x185 RPE 9 3x180 RPE 9 -- After short break good to get numbers back on the board.
Squat 315x5 RPE 7.5 335x3 RPE 9 305x5 RPE 9 -- My squat form felt out of whack after not squatting for 10 days. Really really bad, but will be better next time.
Bench with a pause: 165x5 RPE 8 175x5 RPE 8.5 175x5 RPE 9 165x5 RPE 9
Bench with 3ct pause: 135x6 RPE 8.5 135x6 RPE 9 130x6 RPE 9

Summary: I think today highlighted the beauty of using RPE (although I suck at it currently). On the SS program I would have left the gym after squats felt way to heavy way to quickly, but at least I was able to get some work in. Looking forward to the next workout as I get back in the swing of things.

[John Guerra]

Have to catch up on logging here:

12/12

Deadlift: 400x5 410x3 385x5

Close grip bench: 135x6 145x6 160x6 155x6

Press: 125x6 135x6 125x6

[John Guerra]

12/14

Hang clean: 155x3 175x3 180x3 165x3

Touchngo Bench: 175x6 180x6 165x6

[John Guerra]

12/16

Squat: 325x4 305x4

Power Clean: 195x3 185x3 180x3

Bench: 185x4 180x4 175x4

3ct pause Bench: 115x9 130x9 125x9