Yea I can understand that
And I didn’t take it that you were being discouraging I’m glad you’re able to tell me all this useful info
Welcome back, I also hope to bench 400 some day. May the race begin!!!
save your money.
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My experience of meet lifting was similar!
Learned a lot from the experience and a lot about myelf
Meet lifting is a different beast altogether from lifting in the safe environment of your home gym, some thrive in it others like me not so much, you never know until you try it!
Good luck with all your goals, we are all still learning and adapting!
@BOTSLAYER thank you for the welcome. And yes let the race begin!!! Even if I don’t get to 400 I’d still like to have a 1RM of 300
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@mclembo I still want to go to a few meets because there’s always cool things to learn in new places so I totally agree.
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Haha
I like keep a 1 to 1 ratio of positive to negative posts.
I do like strong women, bring me a jungle woman with a huge muscular butt anyday.
Sexist really?
@jasmincar I’ll give you that one. Good response.
Forgot to log my past 3 workouts to here’s the first.
LOG # 10
Big 3 training.
Nothing but strength training this session. I used a five day pass, because the women’s gym I go to doesn’t have certain equipment that i like to use. But anyways here goes:
•Free weight squats with 300 lbs.
3 sets of 5
•Supersetted with leg presses @ 600lbs for 3 sets of 6
• Bench press at 110 lbs for 7 sets of 2.
• Deadlifts @ 230lbs for 3 sets of 3.
Accessory work:
•Chest press machine:
5 sets of 5 @ 120 pounds
•Lat pulldowns @ 100 lbs , 5 sets of 5
•Incline DB chest press at 40 lbs each arm until failure.
•Ab crunch machine @75 pounds for 30 reps.LOG # 11
•Active rest day. Nothing spectacular just 20 mins of HIIT using swimming.
• rotated between keeping my legs still and only using arms, and vice versa.
LOG # 12
Working on Big lifts again, however I didn’t eat as much as I should have so things were feeling a bit heavier than usual so I lightened the load on my upper body work. AND I just found out that you’re actually supposed to include the weight of the bar that you have. And I’m sitting here thinking to myself how much of a dunce I must be. I just figured the bar was a given and it didn’t really need to be counted, but it makes sense that you’d also be squatting how much the bar weighs too, unless it magically weighed nothing. However now I have to recalculate all my PRs but I’ll do that later. Anyways here’s the next session.
Squat: 315 lbs for 5x5
Deadlifts: 245lbs for 3 sets of 3, 275 lbs @2 sets of 2
Bench: 130 for 3 sets of 2
Ab machine: 30 reps at 100 lbs.
DB chest press with 60s for 4 sets of 6
DB rows with 60s for 3 sets of 5
Leg press @ 600 lbs for 4 sets of 8
Was tired so it doesn't seem like a lot but it took me about an hour or so to complete because I was struggling to get the weight up, but I pushed through. I'm super tired and I had class today which means I'm gonna be super groggy in the morning. 😤LOG # 13
squat: 300lbs@ 5x5
deads: 200 lbs @4x4
bench: 135@ 5x5
skull crushers: @ 40lbs 3 sets of 12
leg extensions: 100lbs 5x5
glute back kicks: 70 lbs for 7 reps, 60 lbs for 7 reps, 50 pounds for 12 reps, 45 pounds for 10 reps
Machine dips: 125lbs for 7 reps, 100 pounds for 6 reps, 90 pounds for 10 reps
machine chest press: 85 pounds 4x4
hanging leg raises: 30 reps
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LOG # 14
squat: 315lbs 4x3
deadlifts: 275lbs 2x3, 245 lbs 5x5
bench: 1RM 185lbs, 135lbs 3x3
leg extensions 100 lbs 3 sets of 12
DB shoulder press 90 lbs 3x5
machine pulldowns 90 lbs 4 sets of 6
single arm DB rows @ 50 lbs each arm
hanging leg raises focusing on hip area for 30 reps
machine crunches @ 100 pounds 3x5
leg curl machine @ 60 lbs. 3x5
Alright so sorry I haven’t been posting my workouts as usual. Just been busy however not much has been changing. I’ve been doing the same things as logs 13 and 14, and just perfecting my movements while adding a little bit of weight slowly (mainly in increments of 10). Ive been doing more pullups just because it really targets my forearms and ive been meaning to bring that area up on my body as well. So that’s it for now
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LOG 15
squats: 315lbs 5x5
deadlifts: 200lbs 5x5
DB single arm rows with 50s 5x5
hanging leg raises- 30 reps
assisted pull ups 5x5
LOG 16
squats: 315lbs 5x5, 300 lbs 5x4, 200lbs 10 reps
deadlifts: 200 lbs 5x5, 250lbs 2 reps, 180 lbs, 10 reps
bench: 135lbs 5x5
hanging leg raises: 30 reps
assisted pull ups: 5x5
*** I realized I’m slowly morphing my workouts into a 5x5 program. Which is nice because I can see its giving me awesome strength gains, I’m not sure why I didn’t just start out doing this program when I first started lifting, but better late than never.
Calories wise, I’m still keeping everything at roughly 3,000 calories.
Been eating shit food lately because ive been in a rush everywhere and haven’t sat down and planned my meals to actually cook at home so that’s something I need to work on.
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LOG 17
squats: 300lbs, 5x5, 250, 2 sets of 6, 135 10 reps
bench: 135lbs 4 reps (free weights), 170 lbs 5x5 (smith machine)
deads: 265lbs 4 reps, 230lbs 5x5
calf extensions: 110lbs, 5x5
hanging leg raises: 10 reps
crunch machine: 5x5
DB standing chest press w/ 35’s @ 3 sets 5 reps
assisted pullups w/ lightest resistance possible 3 sets 5 reps
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LOG # 18
squat 300lbs 5x5
deads: 275lbs 5x5
bench: 160lbs 5x5
hanging leg raises: 30 reps
machine ab crunch: 20 reps
DB rows w/ 35’s: 2 sets of 3
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LOG # 19
This day, was focused around more pump work and hypertrophy sets. My usual big lifts, were lightened up, and I threw maybe 10 more reps in than I usually do. And this training session focused more on making myself sweat harder, and increasing my heart rate.
Squats: 135 lbs 10 straight reps, 160, 10 straight reps, 200lbs 5x5
Glute blaster thingy: 3 sets of 10 on each side
abductor machine: 5x5 with 100 lbs.
hanging leg raises: straight set of 15
planks: 1 min. 30 seconds
pull ups: 2 reps without assistance bands, 5x5 with assistance bands
skull crushers with 50lbs, straight set to failure
DB chest press: with 40’s 5x5
deadlifts: 135 lbs straight set of 10, 160 lbs. 5x5
I’m super sore today, pretty much everywhere, however I’ve noticed that when I cycle a hypertrophy/pump day every 3 weeks or 4 weeks or so, it really helps with my big lifts, and I find it easier on my cardio days as well. However the downside I’m noticing, is that I’m beginning to become hungry all the time, which often leads to bloating because I’m eating more, so I’m going to have to play around with how I can liquefy some of the foods I eat, because half of the time the bloating makes working out very uncomfy and I feel as though I might throw up.
However on a positive side, when I couple my new intraworkout nutrition with a serious pump day, I can revocer a bit faster, versus when I didn’t practice pre or intra workout nutrition.
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LOG # 20
YAY! I finally reached 20 log posts lol.
So yesterday’s training session was awesome and horrid at the same time.
I wanted to see how my PR’s were going, and to see if I could hit a new one. I did which was awesome, but in the act of doing so, I severely agitated my sciatic nerve in my left hip. I should’ve saved this for another day, when my energy was higher than usual which is usually towards the end of the week, but I brushed it off.
My new Squat PR is 375 for 2 reps with perfect form
And my new deadlift PR is 295 for one rep with perfect form
My bench is still lagging at 160, but oh well.
now, where I fucked up, was that my hip was already kind of nagging me on the ride to gym, and then when I hit parallel, I completely irritated it. Then I proceeded to deadlift heavy which didn’t make anything any better, and now I’m kind of mad at myself for ignoring signs my body usually tells me. On any other day I always listen to my body, but last night I’m not sure what got in the way. probably a bit of pride, which I’m going to have to smash into bits during tomorrow’s’ training session. And come as humbled as a kid who got his ass whooped after school.
Other than that, its been the same old same old
Oh! and yesterdays training mainly consisted on working the big lifts as usual, the only thing I did different was switch and work up to the heavier sets, and I walked for 10 mins on the treadmill after. Didn’t care to do ab work because I was kind of in pain afterwards.
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