[HellIsForHeroes]

So I've been reviewing this routine Please critique this routine!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I think I'm going to switch out the quad day with more curls.

A religion professor of mine, and also the head of the honors department at my University, once told me in all seriousness, "Adam, you have to do curls for the girls."

I knew the world was doomed from that point on.

My tale starts as a fat kid growing up and entering college. I endured a knee injury after attending an xLooking Forwardx show. Since surgery I got into lifting as a part of rehab (this forum is the reason being for that ). I've since fallen in love with it. I've lifted seriously for about a year now. I've gotten fairly strong, but I've also been really bad at keeping together any sort of program or order in my lifting.

A couple times a week I get lessons in Muay Thai from two friends who attends classes. My school schedule conflicted with me starting up taking classes personally, this semester. They just basically make me run drills for an hour. I hope that after this semester I can work my class schedule in such a manner to take classes personally.

My goals are as follows, get stronger, get leaner slowly but surely, but most importantly, to finally start having some order to my lifting.

I just got off the Smolov Jr for bench. I haven't retested for my new max yet. Before that, I did a very small deload after a strongman comp. Before that I completely the base cycle for the Smolov Squat Cycle. Before that, it was all random shit.

My stats are as follows:

20 Years Old
6'
roughly 235lbs
full time student

Best all time lifts are:

Squat: 415lbs to parallel
Deadlift: 475lbs
Bench:295lbs
Power Clean: 245lbs
Push Press: 260lbs

My next plan is after Thanksgiving to start up the Coan/Phillipi as explained here http://www.powerpage.net/coanphildead.html

I plan to replace the lat pull downs with Chins.

This coming week is my week off though.

So I'll start posting my workouts in this from now on. I expect them to be fully picked apart by all of you.

[enright3060]

About damn time - now I can verbally abuse you as you try to win our bench race with Matter.

[HellIsForHeroes]

You better watch yourself there enright because of what I'm typing next.

Tonight's impromptu workout

Parallel Wide Stance Squat
135x5
225x4
315x3
365x2
385x2
405x1

Bench (Pause)
135x5
225x1
245x1
275x1
295x1

I'm doing the pause the best I know. I told my buddy to wait until the bar comes to a complete stop and then tell me "good" or "lift" and then I proceed to press the weight up. If I did it right, then that means tonight I pause benched my previous touch and go max. Watch your pants, enright!

[enright3060]

nice workout - your bench looks solid. All three of us are pretty close to three wheels.

[HellIsForHeroes]

My only workouts of the past weekend were new PRs in eating and not vomiting.

[Saith]

Best log title since Bubble Boy's diet log.

[GroundNPound]

Thanks for the calculator, you know I saw it before I started and never noticed that extra 4 weeks in the beginning. DOH! Anyways I think that my squat is def growing quickly anyways. How were your results?

[HellIsForHeroes]

Just doing the base cycle, I went from 385lb close stance below parallel squat to a 410lb. And it was an easy 410lb squat at that. I missed 420lb that day and I've yet to try for it again since. I figure I might try the full cycle sometime next year.

[GroundNPound]

I started after a long lay off at 315 I figure I will hit 355 or better but that is all yet to be seen.

[HellIsForHeroes]

Today's workout

Bench
135x5
225x1
275x1
300x1
315x0 (I moved the weight the whole way, but it was ugly, which means I won't count it as actually making it)

I'll have video of the 300 and 315 bench shortly.

Box Squats (I wish I knew the height)
225x5
275x3
315x2x2

I filmed the last two sets of box squats for critique. That should be up soon as well.


Clean
155x8
205x3

I filmed a few of those as well. The memory on my neighbor's camera ran out in the middle of the second video of these.


This is going to be an awkward week of lifting for me. I'm going to try maxing my DL this week and starting up a Coan cycle next week. So this week I'm basically winging it all.

........ Why is youtube being a jerk to me?