mj, my wife buys enough candy to feed half the town. I’m not willing to take the chance of any of it being bad so I’ve forced myself to test each bag. So far so good.
Oh, this is good stuff. This could be a whole new thread “The shit our wives buy for food and how we handle it”. Last night the wife bought two giant Sicilian pizzas with everything on them. Probably 20,000 not so healthy calories sitting on the kitchen counter. I remembered how I would eat a whole pizza routinely in college, but I stopped at 1x3, 1x4, 1x5 pieces, no hollering needed. Doc
[quote]Dr.PowerClean wrote:
Oh, this is good stuff. This could be a whole new thread “The shit our wives buy for food and how we handle it”. Last night the wife bought two giant Sicilian pizzas with everything on them. Probably 20,000 not so healthy calories sitting on the kitchen counter. I remembered how I would eat a whole pizza routinely in college, but I stopped at 1x3, 1x4, 1x5 pieces, no hollering needed. Doc[/quote]
Ok, that made me smile, not to mention the post above about not taking any risks and testing all the candy.
I need to remember that next time I face a pizza or when we go out to buy the candy for the kids.
You guys inspire me in more ways than one.
i found where she hid the candy. I am a very bad boy. The upside, is, deadlifts at lunch!
10/26/09 5/3/1 Deadlift (1) cycle 5
255x 5
285x 3
320x 8
2a accessory deadlift supersetted with decline situps
225x 10/10/10/10/10
2b decline situps
bw x 15/13/9/10/10
shrugs
325 x 20/20
time: 2 hours from when i left the office to when i got back, so prolly 70-80 minutes in the gym
fatness: embarassingly higher
money set equivalent: 405. 19lbs higher than last week, 3 lbs shy of PR
I am getting stronger. this is proof that I am cheating on my diet more than i am staying on it, especially the fact that I got all 5 sets of 10 on BBB deads. getting stronger makes it harder to lose weight, knowing that I will stop getting stronger for awhile. oh well, be nice to live for a couple extra years…
for the OCD among us, the shrugs were done 5 reps per breath. so i pick up the bar, do 5 reps, breathe, 5 reps, breathe, 5 reps, breathe, 5 reps, drop bar and cry. I have to do this because my traps are not big. i would like it if people didn’t have to ask if I lift, they could tell my monstrous YOKE. someday…???
so, very happy about the lifting, very sad about the not dieting. i know how I am, so I am not really going to take the diet seriously until after halloween (although i will try to show some occasional restraint). fat kids love candy like cats like torturing rodents. circle of life and all that shit.
too bad I can’t stop being a lardass without stopping eating candy.
Enlargen Harder,
john
nice work.
I heard yokes are on sale this halloween…did you read the yoke article?
they have candy out at eery craft service table at work
its a pain.
we cant have it in the house or I will eat the entire snack sized bag.
10/27/09 5/3/1 bench (1) cycle 5
190x 5
215x 3
240x 8 PR
2a accessory bench supersetted with kroc rowz
185x 10/10/8/8/9/4/1
2b kroc rowz
105x 10/10/10/10/10
Face Pullz
120x 10/10
time: 51 min
fatness: 291
money set equiv: 304 +4lb PR
First Bench PR since may 12. its the eating plus the lower weights and higher reps. Rep #8 was one ugly mofo, but my ass stayed on the bench, so it counts. still, nice to have one. I plan on getting one for squat on Thursday, too, then it is sweet deload.
did something a little different today. I was able to move up weight on the accessory bench, and I decided that even if I couldn’t get 5x 10, I would do extra sets to get a total of 50 reps. I will do this on all accessories from now on.
An overall lesson for people about to start 5/3/1: if you use an actual 1RM to calculate your training maxes, use 80% instead of 90%. If you use a rep max, use 90%. This would have been better for me, and the fact that I finally did it on cycle 5 has paid off. wish I had started this low to begin with. Remember, start low!!
Train Harder,
john
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
10/27/09 5/3/1 bench (1) cycle 5
190x 5
215x 3
240x 8 PR
2a accessory bench supersetted with kroc rowz
185x 10/10/8/8/9/4/1
2b kroc rowz
105x 10/10/10/10/10
Face Pullz
120x 10/10
time: 51 min
fatness: 291
money set equiv: 304 +4lb PR
First Bench PR since may 12. its the eating plus the lower weights and higher reps. Rep #8 was one ugly mofo, but my ass stayed on the bench, so it counts. still, nice to have one. I plan on getting one for squat on Thursday, too, then it is sweet deload.
did something a little different today. I was able to move up weight on the accessory bench, and I decided that even if I couldn’t get 5x 10, I would do extra sets to get a total of 50 reps. I will do this on all accessories from now on.
An overall lesson for people about to start 5/3/1: if you use an actual 1RM to calculate your training maxes, use 80% instead of 90%. If you use a rep max, use 90%. This would have been better for me, and the fact that I finally did it on cycle 5 has paid off. wish I had started this low to begin with. Remember, start low!!
Train Harder,
john[/quote]
I’m finding much the same phenomenon on the Hepburn program. I think it might be true for any program where you have accumulation of volume: start at a lower weight than you think you ought to. Then the volume can work for you - increasing work capacity incrementally and permitting greater intensity later- rather than beating you up.
I may have to reset my squat and deadlift downward again.
[quote]DaCharmingAlbino wrote:
mjnewland wrote:
10/27/09 5/3/1 bench (1) cycle 5
190x 5
215x 3
240x 8 PR
2a accessory bench supersetted with kroc rowz
185x 10/10/8/8/9/4/1
2b kroc rowz
105x 10/10/10/10/10
Face Pullz
120x 10/10
time: 51 min
fatness: 291
money set equiv: 304 +4lb PR
First Bench PR since may 12. its the eating plus the lower weights and higher reps. Rep #8 was one ugly mofo, but my ass stayed on the bench, so it counts. still, nice to have one. I plan on getting one for squat on Thursday, too, then it is sweet deload.
did something a little different today. I was able to move up weight on the accessory bench, and I decided that even if I couldn’t get 5x 10, I would do extra sets to get a total of 50 reps. I will do this on all accessories from now on.
An overall lesson for people about to start 5/3/1: if you use an actual 1RM to calculate your training maxes, use 80% instead of 90%. If you use a rep max, use 90%. This would have been better for me, and the fact that I finally did it on cycle 5 has paid off. wish I had started this low to begin with. Remember, start low!!
Train Harder,
john
I’m finding much the same phenomenon on the Hepburn program. I think it might be true for any program where you have accumulation of volume: start at a lower weight than you think you ought to. Then the volume can work for you - increasing work capacity incrementally and permitting greater intensity later- rather than beating you up.
I may have to reset my squat and deadlift downward again.[/quote]
My only advice would be do it sooner rather than later. I wish I had reset my training maxes in cycle 2 instead of 5. I hope that 3 months wasn’t wasted (prolly not), but I know I could have had more progress.
And speaking for myself, coming off Dave Tates old westside for beginners template, my capacity was crap when i started 5/3/1.
experiments with questionable outcomes will hopefully fuel the learning curve of the younger brothers. or not, if they are like I was…
started this morning off with the barbell complex at 97 lbs. i am not sure if I won, but I survived. I’ll do another set at this weight and move up. i hope.
I notice that the transition from hang clean to front squat sucks. Racking the bar for front squats is really hard for me. I think I will blame it (this morning) on poor flexibility, instead of just being a pussy.
Feel the Burn
Staple your Nutsack
I have the same trouble moving from the hang clean to front squat. I end up holding the bar mid throat for the front squats. I can’t rack it across my shoulders. You have all my respect doing a complex first thing in the morning.
another video from the staple your nutsack guys
10/29/09 5/3/1 Squats (1) Cycle 5
245x 5
280x 3
310x 10
IK deads supersetted with pulldown abz
bw x 12/12/12/12/12
PD Abz
130x 13/13/12/12/10/5
time: 60 min
fatness: 292 (headed back up)
money set 1 rep equiv: 413 (5lb PR)
Another PR. Felt great. I had at least 2 more reps left in me, but my knee was starting to feel a little funky.
Feel guilty about not dieting, but I don’t feel guilty about getting stronger.
Well, that pretty much ends Cycle 5. deload time. Since the deload is so easy, I am considering just doing it mon,tues,wed,thurs, so that I can hit it again the following week. It would still be a full week of not lifting much, just not my regular days.
I will be starting back on Atkins at the start of deload week, so we will see how things go. I am going to increase training weights the appropriate way, and even dieting I should be pretty good on reps still.
It feels good to not feel weak!
train harder,
john
Great benching. And I wouldn’t feel guilty about getting stronger either. 
Congrats on the bench PR!
My wife is sick of hiding food. I told her to give up, if I really want it I will find it.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Great benching. And I wouldn’t feel guilty about getting stronger either. :)[/quote]
My bad. joke of jokes. this was a squat session mislabeled as bench. I suck
[quote]soldog wrote:
Congrats on the bench PR![/quote]
My bad. joke of jokes. this was a squat session mislabeled as bench. I suck
Good looking work mj.
If you start the Atkins my advice would be to ramp your cals down for the first few days of deloading. Going from Halloween candy to under 30gr of carbs a day quickly could make you feel like poo.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Good looking work mj.
If you start the Atkins my advice would be to ramp your cals down for the first few days of deloading. Going from Halloween candy to under 30gr of carbs a day quickly could make you feel like poo.[/quote]
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