Gaining strength and losing weight

[thras]

My wife had a long discussion with me about the recurring burst blood vessels, and is now pretty worried that continued heavy squats will kill me.

6-5:

Weight 295lbs
Waist 49in

Squat 395x3x5
Bench 249x3x5
Dead 380x5

6-7: (today)

Box Squat 325x3x5
Press 159x3x5 (misload, I should have done 159.5)

Front Squat attempt (for flexibility). I tried to warmup, but couldn't get the weight off my wrists. It wasn't possible to continue with my current flexibility.

Snatch: First time trying this. Warm up went fine, but then I tried 135lbs for a work set. First time it went up after turning into a press at the end. Second time it didn't go up. Will have to work on this.

[Budgie Smuggler]

I get burst blood vessels as well, I’ve had them in my eye, face, neck, throat and most recently shoulders and chest.

My blood pressure is fine, so there’s that, I just don’t look quite as pretty as I used to.

[thras]

It's only around my eyes for me. And they go away in a couple of days. As far as I can tell, many or most people that lift heavy get something like this. It seems to me that this sort of temporary stress is likely to be good for the circulatory system. And people don't seem to stroke out during heavy squats.

But I suppose I should find a doctor to tell all that to my wife, otherwise she's going to continue being worried.

[thras]

Squat 400x3x5
Bench 250.5x3x5
Dead 385x5

I missed my third workout last week due to travel, and had some extra calories on Saturday at a wedding. We'll see what happens at tomorrow's weigh-in.

[thras]

Weigh-in:

Weight 293.5lbs
Waist 49in

About 40lbs down now. I continue to be surprised that I've been able to make decent strength gains on a calorie deficit for the past 6 months. I suppose that I'm lifting less bodyweight for the squats, but the gains have come across all of the lifts. My DXA in March showed 189lbs lean mass at 313lbs body weight, and I'm interested in what the DXA in September will say.

[thras]

6-13:

Box squat 330x2x5
Press 161x3x5
Power Snatch 135x5x2

The power snatches were really muscle-ups. I need to go down in weight and work on my drop.

[thras]

6-15:

Squat: 360x3x5 (squat reset)
Bench: 250x3x5 (no fractional plates)
Paused Deadlift: 265x2x5

I was travelling for a wedding and I lifted at Flex in Colorado Springs. A nice old school powerlifting gym in a dungeon at the bottom of some stairs, Arnold posters on the wall, and someone squating megasets of 495 when I walked in.

6-18:

Squat: 365x3x5
Bench: 253.5x3x5
Dead: 385x5

This felt heavy despite the reset.

6-20:

Box Squat: 335x2x5
Press: 162.5x4,2,4
Snatch: 65x2 (okay), 95x2 (miss)

Everything felt heavy again, and I failed the Press. After the muscle-ups, I re-read the snatch article and went through the learning positions again. I’ll start out an LP from 65, I think. I was very hungry last evening after the workout, and the past couple of evenings, which has not been normal over this diet.