Current situation is seriously screwed up economics and I’d be happy if I could afford decent food every day. Plus an infection that is making me tired and not as strong, it’ll go away on its own the nice doctor says… Which really screwed me over, but somehow I managed to not loose weight but actually gain a kilo under the circumstances during theese 3 weeks.
Going to see the good doctor again next week for a check and see what he says. He told me to keep training and doing what I’m doing as it’s good for me. Yay!
I recently switched from one of chads programs to starting strength because I felt like it was more ‘me’. So I’m doing it now and going to stick to it.
Todays workout was (excluding warmup sets):
3x5 Squat (a measy 100 lbs as some ashat broke the squat rack ARGH! How the F do you break it?!)
3x5 Standing military press (100 lbs)
3x5 power cleans (100 lbs)
2x10 Chin-ups
(I used our fixed 100 lbs barbel as you see, somebody screwed our squatrack and the weight-locks for the loose weight barbel in the process) Going to get new ones asap.
My shoulder based weights might seem a bit uneven, but my shoulders are a bit weak due to an old injury which is still healing.
Thank you florelius.
Did the other workout today of starting strength, felt pretty fine except been drinking too much milk = Gas factory. Thankfully it was a day of in school and it passed before I went to the gym.
As usual, only work sets showing.
Started out with squats, once again… only 100 lbs due to still broken rack, taxes everything but my legs it feels like.
So 3x8 100 lbs squats (upped since low weight)
Next was benchie, did a mediocre 3x5 ~180 lbs, my bench really sucks. Thing is it seems to hit my shoulders way more than my pecs and my shoulders are not that good…
And finally was deadlifts, still going a bit easy due to injury risk and learning the lift.
So i did 1x5 ~220 lbs.
Also did 2x8 dips at the end…
Now, what the heck do I do about my bench?
And oh yeah, I added some tummy-work to the mix because I never felt like it really hit it… So I did 3x5 pikes and 2 sets of 45 second planks, plus 4 ‘sideplanks’ at 20 secs. Did I mess up now because I added some ‘moderate’ abwork?
Food was horrible today but I managed to chow down some decent protein intake and 6 glasses of milk… Yay for free milk during the days, nay for upset stomach.
Worked out again today, but I’m in a hurry… so I’ll update later.
EDIT; Workout:
Felt really good today except shoulder was whining a bit about the military press, so I took it a bit easier.
Fixed parts of the squat-stuff…
3x5 200lbs Squats
3x5 90lbs Military press
3x5 100lbs Cleans
2x8 Chinups
Also did some direct arm-work because I felt like it and my triceps needed it… I think.
2x8 115lbs triceps pulldown
1x5 behind the back pullups
PS. I hate my physique at the moment, my pecs are underdeveloped it feels like and even due to all weight i gained at the core I still can see my ribs at times… sigh And to top it off I feel more like straight H than a V-shape… I think my gut has grown a lot more than my chest theese months, chest measurement barely increased at all and I gained a few cm around my gut. </end of whine>
Guess I have to keep working on it, but I really need to fix my pecs… They’re bothering the shit out of me.
Suppose working out 2 days next to each other is no crime in starting strength after all…
Can’t work out tomorrow and the next workout is on sunday so…
Going to the gym now. (:
Updating with lifts as soon as I get back.
Late update for gym:
Squats: 3x5 200 lbs
Bench: 3x5 155 lbs (Yeah, I tried the Guillotine Press, hence lower weight)
Deadlift: 1x295lbs (w0t, personal record? I’m out of weight plates in the gym again…)
2x10 dips before finishing.
Oh my…
Not felt so worn out in my life in a very long time… Been heling a friend at her job plus heavy training and too little food again I think, still doing ~3000kcal -/+ 500 a day however. Or I’m getting ill because I’m feeling worn out, not enough stamina and sweating easily, yet I have no fever?
Never the less todays workout:
3x5 squats @ ~200lbs (can’t go heavier til rack is fixed, but I’m going pretty deep)
4x5 Military press 90lbs (My iffy shoulder seems to like lower weight and an extra set more)
3x’5’ Cleans at 100 lbs (My shoulder were really sore from work and the last set was lacking in form at the end so I quit at 4 reps)
Did some plances for my tummy at the end for a few minutes and finished off with 3x8 chinups.
PS. This is a training log but this really have to be shared:
What the heck do you do about clueless guys in the gym? 2 guys came down to the gym today at the end of the workout reading on the instructions for the few things that had… And then they started working out.
Guy #1 used the benchpress from the wrong direction with a horrible form, silly low weight and lousy uneven grip… Only to move on to the useless ‘bench-machine’ doing some strange kind of shoulder shrugs on it but using his arms instead of shoulders with like… 10KGs… with a short range of motion.
It does not stop there! After that he moved on to the crunch-thingy where you can do full range of motion crunches, but he was doing very limited range of motion crunches assisted with his arms with a horrid back posture.
And don’t even let me get started on the other guy. Now, I’m no guru but that was just horrible, I stuck around doing my stretching and letting my body catch up while I watched… But I could not stand more than 20 minutes of it.
Should I ask if they need help or should I watch them getting hurt and doing silly stuff? I feel bad for them but at the same time it’s their choice, and I don’t want to butt in. It’s the school gym, not a public one.
Aparantly they’re having Qi-gong classes above the gym so we can’t use the stereo… it makes too much noise they say… sigh So i brought the laptop for some music.
Plus, how the hel can some music compare to my deadlift workout in terms of noise when I might have to drop the bar a bit when going heavy…
Is it stupid to add an armday to starting strength? I feel almost no fatigue at all in my arms at the current workout.
Woot, new personal record on dead, again. 320lbs, is my dead out of proportion to my other lifts?
Still feeling effects from the infection and my lifts have stalled a bit with it. Drenched in sweat after each workout. It’ll blow over soon enough I hope…
Feeling tired… Very tired… Been helping a girl out at work plus working out for 3 days straight due to tight schedule. I’m totaly beat, Going to take a training break for 3 days and then continue where I left off. I feel my body needs it right now.
Doctors appointement next week on Wednesday.
EDIT: Thinking about starting climbing once a week, would that be bad for my progress or just a decent compliment?
I took a break and the infection ran it’s course… I lost a kilo over 5 days, but I guess it was mostly water… I was really drained in fatigue and sweating like shit.
Anyhow, Had a workout this thuesday, and it feelt bloody great! Did not lifts heavier than the one before it but it felt great.
Then the day after I went down and did some arm workout because they begged me to be tortured again… And then today, again I went down and did my squat-militarypress-powerclean workout. I increased all weights with ~5 lbs. Next week I’ll add another 5 lbs. Did the program as intended today, I just can’t be bothered writing a list today.
I felt so energetic I did some pikes, planks, pushups and wrote half the alphabet inbetween the sets… Kinda useless, but it felt so good to be back.
3 days straight due to the stupid schedule I have at the moment, next workout is saturday or sunday.
Last workout were M. Presses, Squats and P. Cleans…
I changed my Squatting a bit to low weight and more reps as I Squat 3 times a week with this workout, I felt that Squatting hard plus doing my regular daily activities were killing my legs plus no squatrack yet… sigh Going to increase weight from here slowly.
Squats: 3x10x145 lbs.
Military: 3x5x108 lbs
P. Cleans: 110 lbs
And last… Todays workout! Felt a bit tired, slept bad…
Squats: 3x~8x150 lbs.
Close grip Guillotine Press: 3x5 165 lb
Deadlift: 4x290 lbs + 1x352 lbs (Seems this is close to my max)
Rounded it off with 3x8 dips and some messing around.
Ta-da! Weight is still holding steady at 158 lbs, kinda sucks. But considering I had a cold and lost weight plus a 3 week infection that killed my endurance… I figure I’m doing ok! Plus the weekends have been a killer for me, been helping out at the stables with the horsies… With way too little food and quite a bit of running around. I think I actually lost some BodyFat from the last 6 weekend?! This is no good.
I think my gut has grown a lot more than my chest theese months, chest measurement barely increased at all and I gained a few cm around my gut. </end of whine>
