@bigpappafrance thanks for reminding me.
We were going over “exploration” and cooperation in mechanism design class and the professor said: “suppose you could hire the mountain to punch freeriders”
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Week 1: day 6 (yesterday)
Bench: 1x10-30,35, 1x8 -40,45; 2x5-50kg, 1x3-55kg, paused
Feet up bench: 3x5- 45kg
Close grip bench: 3x6-40kg
Lateral raise: 8x12-7.5lb dbs
Conditioning: 4x(20sec high knees+ 20sec kickboxing combo+20 sec rest)
- nice easy bench session, not much to report. Proper deload this week, testing next Monday!
Week 3: Day 1
6x(25m farmer’s carries- 65lb Dbs+25m lunges)
2x(25m front rack carry/side-65lb db+12 cable rows-55lbs)
6x(40sec rope pull+20sec rest)
DB cleans: worked up to 1x1/side-65lb db!!! @jdm135 @SvenG
- decided to have a bit of fun with conditioning, everything felt awesome, really really happy with DB clean PR
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Week 3: day 2 (yesterday)
Squat: 1x5-50,60,70kg; 1x10-80kg, paused
Paused squat: 3x4-70kg
Lying leg raises: 4x12
Incline Bench: 1x10,30, 1x8-35, 1x6-40; 4x5-45kg
Tricep push down: 4x12-25lbs
- nice workout, happy w/ 1x10-80 beltless, skipper conditioning
Since it’s taper, I’m using it as an excuse to take it easy and take today off.
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Fixed that typo for you.
Any ideas what weights you are going for on testing week?
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Bench: 65 paused, want 70 touch and go but that’s a huge stretch
Squat 105, 110 as a stretch goal
Deadlift: 130, 135 as a stretch goal
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Week 3: Day 3
Deadlift: 1x5-60,80,90; 2x5-100kg
Good mornings: 6x5-60kg
lying leg raises: 6x10
Leg extensions: 4x6-95lbs
Conditioning: 4x(40sec burpees+20sec rest)
- felt good, got the work in- those good mornings really killed me
Update:
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I’m so ready for the semester to be over… @tlgains @jshaving Two exams tomorrow, one on Tuesday then I’m done… until I begin GRE prep, studying for real analysis, full time research position, job, work on thesis project
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next semester is going to be crazy… My advisors literally advocated that I use my thesis project as a final project for a class (mild academic dishonesty)
Keep in mind, these profs study ethical decision making. This will be great prep for grad school, especially if I do econ -
my contractual counterpart is amazing. Super supportive and is helping me work on my model for my thesis
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I’m ready for this semester to be over too, I miss my family and also this whole semester is too long.
I look forward to my summer internship and training (without worrying about assignments or any other nonsense).
I have two finals and three papers, should be done by next Friday. Sooner, if I’m disciplined enough to write faster.
One of the finals is for my Russian history class. I should have you take it for me, haha. Somehow it’s just not as interesting to me as I thought it might be.
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Haha you’re about 2 years too late.
I stopped history classes sophomore year in lieu of maths
Week 3: day ?? (Yesterday)
Bench: 1x5-30,35,40,45,50kg
40min weighted walk-25lbs in pack
- felt good, got HR up and felt good.
Almost testing day!!!
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All this AND she lifts, folks!
Congratulations on a great year, @anna_5588. Be sure you take some time to celebrate the victories!
@SvenG @dagill2 @boilerman @tlgains
Testing day
Squat: fail… hit 100kg smooth but got nailed by 105
Bench: 65kg paused, failed 70kg touch and go
Deadlift: 130 smooth, failed 135 just above the knee
- very pissed and disappointed to say the least, especially with the squat. I felt like I got a lot stronger… but…
I’m still weaker in bodyweight terms for bench and deadlift
Moving forward. I want to take some time (maybe a week) away from the big three but after that, programme suggestions?
Also, for the coming semester, I won’t have the luxury of so much gym time. I was thinking BBB might be nice since Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays will be very flexible.
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What’s the training goal?
Get stronger
No longer with the caveat of “without adding bodyfat”?
Well no, but given my schedule next semester, there’s no guarantee that “without gaining body fat” will hold
That’s incidental rather than intentional though. Do I understand that the goal is “get stronger without adding bodyfat, and the only weight that can be gained is muscle”, or is it a pure “zero movement of the scale” scenario?
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technically this, but I don’t think I’ll need to intentionally chase weight gain for it to happen.
My weight has creeped up 2lbs (accounting for waterweight) since december without me trying.
I dropped 3lbs for today, 2 of which were water, the last lb was from the “mini mini” cut I had been doing leading up to this
Edit: By the time I lifted, I was right back to 105
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