Julie Tries LP

[Geoff Bischoff]

W11D1

Another break for a minor illness. Been rough but still moving along.

Squat: 75x6x3
Press: 32.5x8x3
Deadlift: 105x5x2

And ...

Bodyweight 140

Julie's down 30lbs this year. 18 since she started lifting again.

[Geoff Bischoff]

W1D1 (of 1)

Another restart; logging here with hopes of continuing.

SQT 65x3x5
PRS 25x5x3
DLT 95x3x2
ROW 65x8
BNC 65x3x3

[Geoff Bischoff]

Julie picked a 3/wk schedule that she thinks is going to work out for her. Here's hoping.

I'm trying the descending reps thing again, hoping to actually take it all the way down to triples for volume. These longer sets are for some work capacity building. She's kitten-weak right now after a year that's included 40lbs of weight loss (down to 130 now), and two unrelated hospitalizations.

Idea is to bench and press both sessions (but only 2 sets each) until it becomes necessary to alternate the upper body volume.

W2D1

SQT 45x10x3
PRS 15x10x2
BNC 35x10x2
DLT 75x10

[Geoff Bischoff]

W2D2 (20220311)

SQT 50x10x3
PRS 20x10x2
BNC 40x10x2
DLT 85x10

W2D3

SQT 55x10x3
PRS 25x10x2
BNC 45x10x2
DLT 95x10

[Geoff Bischoff]

W3D1

SQT 60x10x3
PRS 30x10x2
BNC 45x10x2
DLT 100x10

[Geoff Bischoff]

W3D2

SQT 65x10x3
PRS 35x10x2
BNC 55x10x2
DLT 105x10

Next, cutting to sets of 8.

[Geoff Bischoff]

W4D1

SQT 70x8x3
PRS 35.7x8x2
BNC 57.5x8x2
DLT 110x8

[Geoff Bischoff]

Side note; I neglected to mention that last week, Julie had a 4th and (Lord willing) final surgery to correct the issue that hospitalized her in mid-2021. The fact that she lifted on 3-20 (3 days post-op) is a glorious testimony to God's mercy: This surgery was so free of complication that she was basically "on point" within 24 hours.

[Geoff Bischoff]

W4D2 (20220325)

SQT 75x8x3
PRS 40x8x2
BNC 60x8, 7
DLT 115x8

[Geoff Bischoff]

W5D1

Titrating set-length down; Julie's responded well to this post-hospital "LP lite," and we're gonna start doing something that looks more like "The Program."

SQT 80x5x3
BNC 60x8, 5, 5

Wanted to see the top set of 8 since she reported on the 25th that she'd failed the second set. Sho' nuff, it was slow and grindy after 5 reps. So ... we're on fahves for bench.

DLT 120x8

Might be able to go to the 8-rep cookie jar another 1 to 4 times on deadlift still.