Life Starts At 45 (Hopefully)

[positronbomb]

Week 19
Today's workout
Lunges: 110 lbs, 5 sets of 14
Over head press: 136.4 lbs (62kg), 5, 5, 4, 3, 2 (PR attempt)
Power cleans: 121 lbs (55kg), 5 sets of 3 (deloaded)
Chin Ups: 3 sets of 10
Barbell Rows: 220 lbs (100kg), 2 sets of 5

Made some improvement on overhead press in sets 3 and 4. As long as there is improvement I won't be resetting. As soon as I hit this PR, I will implement a 5 Rep Max set with 2 back off sets, I'm not interested in sets of 3 for over head press just yet.

Thinking of switching from power cleans to power snatches at some point very soon.

Performed 3 sets of chins for the first time, I will start adding weight since I'm able to do 3 sets of 10.

I have bruises on my gut from smashing the bar into it from performing barbell rows. Hahaha

Back is feeling better than yesterday.

[Karelipoeg]

Nice work with the Chin-ups. I just did my best and got them 9/9/9 so you are stronger. And my Weighted Chin-ups 3x5 best was 16,25 kg last workout, so you should have quite a few kilos waiting for you. I started at 5 kg and am using 1,25 kg increments. First fail was at 16,25 kg. Keep going

[positronbomb]

Nice work with the Chin-ups. I just did my best and got them 9/9/9 so you are stronger. And my Weighted Chin-ups 3x5 best was 16,25 kg last workout, so you should have quite a few kilos waiting for you. I started at 5 kg and am using 1,25 kg increments. First fail was at 16,25 kg. Keep going

Some friendly competition is always good for increased GAINS.
Hahahaha

[positronbomb]

I've pretty much reached advanced novice for both bench press, and over head press.
I'm considering some very unconventional ideas to break up the boredom, probably, run each training idea for 4 weeks and compare strength charts.

My back is feeling ok so I'll squat and deadlift on Wednesday again. I know it will flare up the injury but if I can recover by each weekend I might persist for a little while longer.

[positronbomb]

Week 20
Today's workout
Lunges: 110 lbs, 5 sets of 14
Bench Press: 214.5 lbs (97.5kg), 3 sets of 5 (PR)
Power cleans: 121 lbs (55kg), 5 sets of 3 (deloaded)
Chin Ups: +5kg, 3 sets of 5
Chin Ups: AMRAP, 12.
Barbell Rows: 220 lbs (100kg), 3 sets of 5


Finally got the PR on bench press.
Going to meet my goal of 100kg.

[positronbomb]

Week 20
Today's workout
Squat: 192.5 lbs (87.5kg), 3 sets of 5, Deloaded
Over Head Press: 136.4 lbs (62kg), 5, 5, 4, 3 (PR attempt)
Deadlift: 242 lbs (110kg), 1 set of 5, Deloaded
Lat pulldowns: 200lbs, 3 sets of 5
Seated Rows: 200lbs, 2 sets of 8

[positronbomb]

Week 20
Today's workout
Lunges: 110 lbs, 5 sets of 14
Bench Press: 220 lbs (100kg), 5, 4, 3, 3, 3 (PR attempt)
Power cleans: 126.5 lbs (57.5kg), 5 sets of 3 (deloaded)
Chin Ups: +16.5 lbs (7.5kg), 3 sets of 5
Seated rows: 200lbs, 3 sets of 8

Back is feeling ok, so I'm quite happy.
It was a great feeling benching my goal weight of 100kg (1.25 × bodyweight), I wasn't expecting to get 3 sets of 5 on my first attempt, just happy getting 5 in the first set.
Hope to get it in the next 2 weeks.

[positronbomb]

Week 21
Today's workout
Lunges: 110 lbs, 8 sets of 14
Over Head Press: 136.4 lbs (62kg), 3 sets of 5 (PR)
Power clean: 126.5 lbs (57.5kg), 5 sets of 3 (deloaded)
Lat pulldowns: 200lbs, 3 sets of 5
Seated Rows: 200lbs, 2 sets of 8

Got a PR on overhead press today. YEAH
Decided to increase the number of sets of lunges from 5 to 8.

[Jacket]

Week 21
Today's workout
Lunges: 110 lbs, 8 sets of 14
Over Head Press: 136.4 lbs (62kg), 3 sets of 5 (PR)
Power clean: 126.5 lbs (57.5kg), 5 sets of 3 (deloaded)
Lat pulldowns: 200lbs, 3 sets of 5
Seated Rows: 200lbs, 2 sets of 8

Got a PR on overhead press today. YEAH
Decided to increase the number of sets of lunges from 5 to 8.

Well done on the OHP PR!

[positronbomb]

Well done on the OHP PR!

Thanks.
Switching to advanced novice for this exercise next workout.