First Ever NLP

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5/12/20

Little bit of knee pain going on during my squat warmup.

Squat
335 x 5 x 3

New PR. This is the weight that beat me the first time through. Good to be back and confident under the bar.

Bench Press
235 x 5 x 3 sets

I don’t know if I’m doing the right programming thing here. I only dropped about 10lbs off (Apparently I’m determined to make every mistake for myself). My plan is just to head back up in 2.5lbs jumps. I don’t think my technique is good, since my outside pec/inside shoulder pain on the left side has not gone away. I’ll have to dive deeper into the blue book and some videos.

Power cleans
115 x 3 x 5 sets

Not bad. Anxious to get the 45’s on the bar.

Way too long of a workout today 80+ minutes.

Weight is at 221

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5/15/20

Squat
275 x 5 x 3
Light squat day. All work sets done in about 12 min

Press
45lbs x 20
45lbs x 20
45lbs x 20

I’ve got pain in both shoulders. Taking it slowly for now.

Deadlift
380 x 5 New PR

Pulled it fairly easy. My back did not get firmly set, so I need to focus on that more next time I pull.

35 minute total workout. I missed a workout this week, but will hit another a heavy squat PR on either Sunday or Monday.

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5/18

Squat
340 x 5 x 3 - PR

Only had time for one lift today. May try to sneak in the rest of this tomorrow morning.

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5/21/20

Squat
275 x 5 x 3 - Light squat day

No other lifts.

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5/23/20

Not really motivated to train today, but did anyway.

Squat
345 x 5 - PR
345 x 5
345 x 1 - Kind of in my head the last set. Should have waited a few more minutes before trying this set but I’m already running 10 min of rest between sets. Will try the weight again next week.

Bench Press
225 x 5 x 3
A small reset. The shoulders feel a little recovered.

Hit the exercise bike for about 10 min.

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5/28

Firmly NDTP right now. I’ve had shoulder pain when I press and knee pain that mostly lasts all day. I will also admit that I fell down the steps at home last week, and that did not help matters. Still going to log what I’m doing and will probably try to run back on NLP one more time once I get another set of 45’s to keep training my deadlift. I only have 395lbs of weights at the moment.

Bench press
225 x 5
230 x 5
235 x 5

Deadlift
390 x 3

Grip failed on the deadlift.

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5/31

Squat
345 x 5 x 3 sets.

Took about 40 min to warmup and get this all done.

Press
155 x 5
155 x 4

Ran out of time. First time pressing in a while. Warmed up a lot. Hit an hour on my workout and had to stop.

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6/4

Turned 35 a couple days ago.

Squat
275x 5 x 3 sets

Power Clean
135 x 3
135 x 3
135 x 3

Really just treading water for the time being. I’m interested in continuing my power cleans and moving to once per week PR’s for the rest of the lifts to conserve my time/sanity/interest. I’ll look through PP and try to come up with something. If anybody has links to articles that would set me straight, those would be appreciated as well.

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6/6

Squat
350 x 5 - Top Set. New PR
300 x 5 ~ 85%
300 x 5 ~ 85%

Bench Press
235 x 5
235 x 5
235 x 5

Felt pretty good. Not much shoulder pain.

63 min workout. Had to cut it short again. Probably have to reset my deadlift this week and run back up again. My last heavy set of 5 was 3 weeks ago

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6/9

Squat
355 x 5 - Top Set. New PR
305 x 5 ~ 85%
305 x 5 ~ 85%

Press
160 x 5
160 x 4

Short session today.