Week 4: day 4 (yesterday)
Deadlift: 1x5-80,90,100,110, 1x1-120
Snatch grip dl: 4x3-80kg, 3x6-60kg
Pendlay row: 3x4-60kg
Weight is back up to 105, but that’s normal around this time+ haven’t been the most adherent. Water should drop next week and I should be less hungry with the taper
Week 4: day 5 (yesterday)
Db cleans: 100 alternating-40lb db, 10 alt body weight lunges every min
Db overhead press: 50/side-25lb db, switch arms when one failed
Seal rows: 1x100-15lb dbs
Update:
I definitely made the right choice committing to UCLA
Congratulations, @anna_5588! This is fantastic news.
That dress looks great on you anna. Nice find!
Week 4: day 6 (yesterday)
Really sleep deprived… there were two screaming babies on the plane. Seriously though, babies should not be allowed on planes
Bench: 1x10-35,4”, 1x8-45, 1x6-50; 1x4, 2x2(paused)- 55
Feet up bench: 3x8-40
Btn press: 4x6-20kg 1min tests
Excited for your meet and testing! Hope it goes well.
I’m sure it was worse for the parents, haha. Besides having to listen to the babies like everyone else, they also had to be the ones who brought the babies on the plane.
Babies just create a huge negative externality. Airplane travel is bad enough without listening to screaming.
At least toddlers can be shut up with an iPad and candy.
With so much video technology, there is no reason to bring a baby on a plane, barring extreme circumstances (cross country/international move). But even so, most of those situations can be arranged such that the child is at an age where iPads shit them up.
I…what?
Maybe next time you hear a screaming baby, you should show the parents this video anna. It’s a pretty cool video that I watched a couple times. I don’t even have kids, it was just interesting I guess.
I think most would call that bad parenting, haha.
I guess I’d say…first world problems? (Not aimed at you, but just like for all of us dealing with this.) A few hours with an annoying noise in the background isn’t the worst thing ever. I try to bring headphones on planes.
Today was just a shitty day
I did “pre- testing” and hit all my old numbers but it’s pretty clear that I haven’t really improved 
Not going to bother doing the mock meet next week. Going to take the rest of the week to dick around and start next week. I now need a programme to last me until end of July. After that, dad agreed to let me get a coach. The plan is to build a base
@simo74 @hustlinghat93 do you guys have any programme recomendations?
Other than that, school is fine I guess. I keep running into my friend (that one)'s girlfriend. She’s wonderful (accomplished, pretty, extremely nice) and, no, I’m not jealous of her. She’s just another reminder of another area where he has managed to excel
OK thanks for the tag in. Before I can answer that, it would be good to know what you want to achieve or focus on over that time. Also tagging @wiseman83 @T3hPwnisher and @TrainForPain because more heads and input will give you options.
You have said till end of July so that is 4 months (17 weeks if you start on 3rd April). That gives lots of opportunity to do multiple blocks of the same program or run a couple of 6 week challenges with a deload between. This will largely be decided by your goals.
Some questions:
How many days a week can you train? Don’t say 4 if you can only do 4 sometimes when the moon is at the right height.
How long can the sessions be ?
Are there any movement restrictions due to injury (or you just dont want to do them)
What equipment do you have available ? - full gym or just bands and kettlebells.
What is the goal for the 17 weeks - please pick one goal not ten and remember you will need to eat and recover to support this goal. Try and be specific with the goal. Something you can really measure.
I will not have access to a barbell May 15- June 5thrd. I’ll not be able to train at all May 23- june 5th and one week in July, otherwise I’ll be able to train at least 4x/week
1-1.5 hours
No
except for the weeks specified, I will have access to barbells, squat rack and dumbbells up to 80lbs. Machine work is not an option after May 14th
For the May 15-May 23, I will have access to a 25lb kettlebell and a 45lb kettlebell and dumbbells up to 70lbs. nothing for the other two weeks
base building. I want to gain some muscle
End of July is the end date because dad agreed to let me get a coach.
OK so lets see if I have this right:
Monday 3rd April - 14th May - 6 weeks - full gym access
Monday 15th May - 22nd May - 1 week - Kettle bell and dumbells
Monday 22nd May - 4th June - 2 weeks - No equipment - body weight only
Monday 5th June - 30th July - 8 weeks - barbells, dumbells, rack etc.
So the goal is to build some muscle. When you get a coach after July what will you be working on ? what is the long term goal with the coach ?
Correct
yes
get strong AF. I want to hit a 3.5x bodyweight deadlift and 3x bodyweight squat at some point
OK if it was ME with those restrictions and goals I would lay it out like:
Monday 3rd April - 14th May - 6 weeks - Volume block - 4 days a week - progressively increase the training and food volume over the 6 weeks, getting the body used to higher reps and calories. Squat and bench twice a week, deadlift and overhead once, one conditioning / bodybuilding session.
Monday 15th May - 22nd May - 1 week - Kettle bell and dumbells - Deload week
Monday 22nd May - 4th June - 2 weeks - No equipment - body weight only - Conditioning for 2 weeks, lots of push ups, pull ups, sprints, burpees
Monday 5th June - 30th July - 8 weeks - barbells, dumbells, rack etc. - Some sort of very intense hard gainer program - super squats, building the monolith, etc… Do this for 6 weeks and then take 2 weeks of deload at the end. This 6 weeks needs to be 100% commitment to the program and include a lot of eating.
going to leave this here for you the others i tagged to comment on before adding any more details
Cool thanks!
I think my plan for the weeks until May 14th, my plan is 5x8-10 on main lifts (increasing reps or weight each week)+ accessories on the lifting days, then conditioning+ additional conditioning day
I think BTM would be good for the last 8 weeks
Or they make noise cancelling headphones for those that have a problem with children?
Also video call =/= in person time
