Andre's Log

[andre11]

Finally starting a log after getting back into training in the last few months. During the last year I had decided to finally get a medical assessment for my strange back pain, they told me I had an age indeterminate vertebral fracture of my T12 Vertebrae which I believe can be traced back to an unfortunate incident involving a heavy fall after an altercation with some individuals in a bar. This combined with some strange hip pain, which bad squats may have contributed to had made me consider dropping squats altogether and I did do this at one point. My left shoulder has multi directional instability and pops in and out of its socket, however keeping upper body lifts in the program keeps it more stable so I have continued to train as I see no alternative. In the process of getting these issues assessed I have come to the conclusion that getting stronger in the big lifts is my priority, when I didn't train my pain was worse in my problem areas. I have also realized that I can train through discomfort and have become a stronger person mentally and physically because of this. I will be posting videos so people can see my lifts as I am aware I have some issues and appreciate any feedback you have so please comment. My stats and most recent workouts are below:

BW:230 MORNING WEIGHT

Height: 6, 4


07-22-2016

Squats

315 5x3

(see video for one of the sets, only captured 4 reps)

volume day press 127 5x5

Weighted chins (short on time) 2x5 bw 230 + 10lbs

07-24-2016

Recovery day

240 5x2

chins bw

12, 5, completely gassed and out of time

Excited to hit 320 3x5 next session on squats.

[andre11]

07/27/2016

Squats 320 5x3 hip was a little irritated because of some knee slide I believe. While trying to not get my knees as far forward I believe I just sat back far to much on my heels which made them shoot forward at the bottom. On the last set I cued more mid foot balance and it was a little better.

145 press 5x1

Deadlift 315 5x1 Not happy with the form did not squeeze up enough and back was rounded. This pissed off my rhomboids and trap on my left side. This is something I need to get fixed as I go up in weight I don't fancy another back injury.

[andre11]

07/30/2016

325 5x3 squats had a lot of knee slide and was not staying in my hips enough.

130 5x5 press felt pretty good first set no belt.

weighted chins 5x3 7.5lbs bw 230

not a bad workout had to rest about 15 mins between the last two sets of squats.

[andre11]

08/02/2016

245 5x2 squats Knee slide was very apparent I will be using TUBOW for a few sessions I am struggling to stop this.
Chins 10 10 9 BW

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330 5x3 squats

147 press 5x1


335 5x1 4x2 finally failed some prescribed reps cannot recover so switching to texas method.

150 lb press

315 deadlift repeat form was better but not great.

[andre11]

8/16/2016

300 5x5 texas method squats had my wife yell at me to lower my left shoulder and bring my right foot back in line with the rest of my body. Still had knee slide except when I actually stopped thinking about sitting back at all but not sure if I was just doing high bar squats essentially when doing this. 300lbs squat 5x5 (1 Set Shown) - YouTube

135 5x5 press these felt pretty good apart from the constant neck and shoulder pain

out of time

[andre11]

08/21/2016

Intensity Day

340 x5 squat

pretty happy with these as I had some back spasms the days before after trying to stretch my left trap which created a strange issue with stiffness all the way through my mid back. I felt very weak because of this, 185 felt heavy working my way up.

152 x5 press felt pretty good last rep was a bit of a grind but manageable

320 deadlifts for 5 my position was off as the bottom and the bar was swinging away from my shins at the bottom I believe I was dropping my hips to low before squeezing up and starting the pull.

pretty happy with this session though.