Hey, new guy here! I thought it would be a good idea to post a log here just to have a record of what I do. Maybe it will also give me some incentive to eat more cleanly if I post my diet.
I normally train shoulders and bench on Mondays and Thursdays. I bench press, shoulder press(with a bar predominantly), do skullcrushers/pushdowns, side/front raises, and I will occasionally work on one armed push presses.
On Tuesdays and Fridays I do legs/back. Mondays consists of back squat, rows, pulldowns, snatch pulls/muscle snatches (i like these for my traps), and direct arm work. Fridays I front squat, either pull for speed from a 4 inch box or do pulls from right below the knee which is about 17 1/2 inches for me. I also do rows, pulldowns, and snatch movements.
My pressing movements have progressed pretty well. I have hit a 330 bench and a 260 lbs military press which is not impressive by any means but i'm content. My issues are my deadlifting and squatting.
I have had some road blocks the last few years, as most of us do, and progress on these movements have ebbed and peaked. I had to drop pulling heavy on a weekly basis and completely rework my squat.
My problems may also have to do with the fact that I do manual labor for a living. I'm still in the process of conditioning my back for the workload that I feel I need to make progress. Hopefully I can return to lifting relatively heavy doubles and triples by next June. As of last week my deadlift was at 430 lbs, and my athletic squat was 290 lbs. Big dispartity, i know.
As far as goals I would like to have a double bw squat and deadlift. A 1.5bw bench and a standing press well over 300 lbs.
I'm 6'1'' 315 lbs 24 years old. I'm a little hesitant about testing 1rm too often especially when it comes to deadlifting and squatting but I will try to do it every 3 months or so. I love this website and the serious nature of it, thanks for having me!
Welcome aboard Frank, look
Welcome aboard Frank, look forward to following your progress in this log. Your goals seem realistic and acheivable, best of luck!
Thanks!
Thanks for the welcome, Yukon. This week is going to be a deload week of sorts for me. I went pretty hard the last six weeks.
Todays workout:
pushups bw*20, one arm pushdown 45 lbs*7, 25 lb front/side delt raise*6 all supersetted did this four times.
The pushups felt great I rarely get this sore in the chest.
Tomorrow I plan on working up to a heavy double or triple in the squat and have some fun with the snatch lift.
Lets get physical!
OK so i'm going to use the next four weeks to really overload my muscles and try to stimulate some growth. We'll see how that turns out. My training will be far different from what i usually do as far as movements and rep/sets schemes.
11/03/08 Monday
rack press elbows about 90 degrees 305lbs*3 4 sets
bench press 200lbs*10 three sets
dumbbell shoulder press 40*7, 40*7, 50*7, 50*7, 60*5, 60*5, 70*5
two minutes rest between sets workout took about 50 minutes Felt great after the workout the sets of 10 were harder than I thought though im guessing the rack presses have something to do with that
Bothersome brothers!
Squats to a box slightly above parallel
195*3, 205*3, 215*3, 225*3, 235*3
chest supported rows 60 lb dumbbells 4 sets of 10 reps 80 lb dumbbells 1 set of 5 (ugly)
muscle snatch from the hang
clean grip, thumbs on rings grip, collar to collar grip
95*3, 105*3, 115*3 did each grip for each weight My traps were on fire!
I didn't get to work on my grip like I wanted to. My brothers showed up and decided to put on a display of their muscularity in front of the mirror. We rarely hang out so I didn't mind too much. We actually went to play some ball which was a nice departure from the norm.
Gewichte heben
I wasn't sure what weight I could do on bench for sets of 7 but I settled on 235 which was pretty close.
bench press 235*7 3 sets, 235*6 1 set
dumbbell shoulder press 45*7 2 set, 55*7 2 sets, 65*5 2 sets, 80*5 1 set
Yup..
short but tough day...
shoulder press 225*3 3 sets I'm hoping to get to five sets in a few weeks
bench press 245*5 4 sets