Alright so here is the stats and a bit of a history.
I started training around a year and a half ago but only seriously for about 8 months. I am training for football at the moment but hope to compete in powerlifting as when I get older. I used to train in a “fitness centre” with a training partner who at one point was alot stronger than myself this quickly faded as he started useing his mouth more than his muscles. I now work out in my garage with a squat rack, bench incline (this bench is hard to bench on because its narrow and i have wide shoulders.) I train alone now.
Stats are
age:17
weight: 240
hieght: 6’3
body fat: unknown will eventually get pictures
Lifts
Bench: 275 (don’t max much no spotters)
squat: 375 (again don’t max much)
deadlift: 425 hopeing to pr next week
I will be posting my lifting days in here currently I am on an 4 day upper lower split with no real program its a mix of powerlifting and ws4sb. By the end of the summer i hope to be a leaner 250 this is what I am going to play football at (defensive and offensive tackle, and all special teams) I will need good cardio as we are undermaned and I will rarley be off the feild.
Enough talk time to get something done I will post pics tomorow or the day after comments and advice more than welcome, don’t really have anyone to tell me what im doing wrong as I lift alone.
Lower body:
Conv Deadlift
warmups
3852
3851*3
Romanian deads
22554 (kind of just a cool down set)
Step ups not worth posting
Not really alot of valume as i have no machines or anything like that to train with.
Jogging Tonight along with alot of eating.
Looking good man. It looks like we have close to the same stats, I will be following.
Thanks, I wouldn’t mind a little friendly competition feel free to post your pr’s here mabey that will help keep us both motivated.
Did a little core work and some grip today, doing some sledge hammer work tonight should be pretty brutal.
upper body
Dumbell Bench
80’sx8x3
Push press
135x6x3 (need to up this going to push it 2 days a week.)
2 Board close grip
205x3x1 (was hurting from 2 presses before)
Shrugs
I just couldn’t handle to do rows I think I’m going to throw them in on deadlift days from now on.
Now that its written down it dosen’t seem like much volume if anyone has ideas for some volume excercises without any type of machine being involved I’d appreciate some advice.
I think you should just bench a shit load more. Atleast another set for the incline dumbbells, and another 3 or 4 for bench.
squats
275x7
275x5
275x4
rep work after that
Power Cleans
185x15 total reps (Need to find someone to help me with form on these)
Practised some front squat form but was haveing some knee trouble from dropping the fifth squat because the bar was in a bad spot on my back.
Upper Body
Flat Bench
warmups
225x5 1 rep PR
205x5x5
Push Press
135x5x4
Close Grip Chins
10 total need to push these I feel weak on them.
Dumbel Push ups
50 total reps was pretty fried from bench.
Wrist roller
Going to try out the back on deadlift day thing tomorow. Haven’t done cardio in a while but I did hay yesterday for 2 hours and that was good enough I’d say. If you haven’t done hay before trust me its hard work.
Thinking of trying jr smolov but i will be working construction during the summer and doubt if i will be able to recover. I think i will work for 2 weeks and see how sore I am, the good thing is I will be able to eat as much as I want because of the heat and work I will be doing and still stay lean or mabey even leaner.
Deadlift
warmups
435x1 30#PR
375x3
Zerker Squats
135x5
155x6x4
First time trying these really liked them I think once I go heavy I will be able to feel it alot better in the legs. Also showed me I need to intensify my core training.
DB rows
80x10x3 I HATE ROWS, no reason just really dislike them.
Sprints and football drills with alot of running in them, felt good but need to work on flexability felt it in hips pretty bad when trying to stretch out my strides.
Squat ATG (really atg almost as low as possible)
315x5 2 rep pr
275x5x3
Zerker squats
185x3x4
Hit my pr but took a tole on me plus didn’t want to be worn out for 285 bench on monday really set on hitting that.
Will be maxing out squat sometime soon Starting to work construction in 2 weeks so I want to see if I can continue to gain strength while working my ass of 5 days a week.
[quote]Big nation wrote:
Squat ATG (really atg almost as low as possible)
315x5 2 rep pr
275x5x3
Zerker squats
185x3x4
Hit my pr but took a tole on me plus didn’t want to be worn out for 285 bench on monday really set on hitting that.
Will be maxing out squat sometime soon Starting to work construction in 2 weeks so I want to see if I can continue to gain strength while working my ass of 5 days a week.
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Good luck on that bench.
And make sure while doing construction, your eating sleeping and drinking as much as you can.
[quote]BlackLabel wrote:
Big nation wrote:
Squat ATG (really atg almost as low as possible)
315x5 2 rep pr
275x5x3
Zerker squats
185x3x4
Hit my pr but took a tole on me plus didn’t want to be worn out for 285 bench on monday really set on hitting that.
Will be maxing out squat sometime soon Starting to work construction in 2 weeks so I want to see if I can continue to gain strength while working my ass of 5 days a week.
Good luck on that bench.
And make sure while doing construction, your eating sleeping and drinking as much as you can.[/quote]
Thanks man I am really set on hitting this bench tomorow, I am hopeing that I will be able to work around the construction such as cutting back to 4 lifting days a week and going to sleep as early as I possibly can.
Flat Barbell bench
285xmiss
275x1 PR + 25
225x4
185x10
Thinking of turning up the reps to try and gain some muscle ive been working 5 reps or below for too long.
Power Clean
135x3
185x1
205x1
225x1 PR +20 I think I could get up 250 with better form I just have no one to teach it.
Overhead Presses
135x6x4
Sledgehammer training 3 one minute rounds need to hit some cardio.
Thinking of trying to build something to do dips with and about ordering jesup straight bar and hex deadlift because I broke my made in china bar.
Deadlft
405x2 PR x1
395x1x3
Rack pulls 1 inch below knees
395x4x5 PR because don’t do rack pulls much
Chin ups 10 in 1 min
Dumbell bench
85’s x5x5
1 arm overhead dumbell press
60x5x5
Supersetted cheat curls
BB rows
165x6x5
Supersetted
Pushups
BW 15 12 10
Hopefully getting a good bar tomorow
Shitty squat workout got pissed and just left did 8 mins of straight sledge.
Push press
135x3
185x1
225xfail
205x1
powerclean
205x2x2
205x1x3
Lat pulldown
Dumbell Bench
85’sx6x4
Box Squat Parallel (no belt)
275x2x10 (tryed something diffrent hopeing it will help me grow some more.)
Power cleans
Don’t really remember these hottest day of summer so far
Sprints from seated postion
Starting work at 6:30 am Thursday hopefully it dosen’t take to much energy and I can still workout hard.