Still no pics of your gym crush?

I would worry about being caught. Taking a pic would prob be obvious. I input data into a tablet during my workouts. Would be weird if I suddenly point it (or my phone) towards her while she's doing lunges or something.

Woot, a tablet is a great tool for taking photos unnoticed.
Things can quickly get akward if u happen to leave the flash on, though.

June 19th, 2012

Had some WIM going on today.

Bench:
1x5x45
1x3x135
1x2x155
3x5x175
1x10x165

Squat:
1x5x45
1x3x135
1x2x185
1x2x185
4x5x225
1x9x225
1x13x185
1x21x135

Dumbbell incline bench:
1x5x25
1x3x40
2x5x65
1x5x60
1x9x50


Everything felt good. The incline bench was tough, and I had to drop some weight in my last heavy set. I was happy to be able to put up 65 in my tired state, though. My gym crush was there, but a pic might be impossible. There are too many people around, and it would be obvious imo.

Elliptical: 15 minutes, 184 cals, 1.34 miles

This makes me want to start working out again. Although ellipticals are banned in my house but I do have a tread mill and a tonne of weights/weight bench.

Im a newb to this forum, aura what does 1x5x25 mean? sets, reps and weight?

Yep. That's right.

So 10x3x185 is ten sets of three reps of one hundred and eighty-five pounds.

You should totally do it!

I feel better than I have in... probably ever... definitely ten years.

There's a beginner's questions thread where you can ask questions and the experienced people generally give very good advice.

Read the FAQ first. There's a wealth of knowledge there.

You can always ask me any questions here as well.

Good luck, man!

thx bruh glglglgl

working out def does wonders for your lifestyle especially the change of energy

^^^^^ Absolutely. Get (back) in on the fun!

Thanks, man.

June 21st, 2012

Felt okay. Successfully kept negative thoughts from creeping in.

Deadlifts:
1x5x45
1x3x135
1x2x225
1x5x265
1x5x245
1x9x225

These felt light. I may go for a ten pound increase soon.

OHP:
1x5x45
1x3x75
1x2x100
1x5x125
1x5x100

These were tough, but I feel good about getting 125 up five times. I suck at these.

Squat:
1x5x45
1x3x135
1x2x185
10x3x210
1x13x185
1x17x155
3x13x165

Felt good. I need to adjust my sets /reps on light days. Need to go a bit heavier after the ten sets. Forgot the heavy unrack. :-/

Jump rope 2x1 minute. Way too hot to do more. I guess I could have gone inside and done more cardio, but I wasn't feeling it.

I feel like 225 bench and 300 squat are attainable by the end of next month. Not so sure about the 350 DL.

Time to eat.

Looks good man. In terms of likeliness to occur by the end of next month, I would say it's pretty close to a toss-up between a 350 DL and a 300 squat (assuming you are talking about a 1RM). Bench sort of depends on how easy a set of 5 is at 175, but that sounds doable (although a bit less likely to me than the other two).

Keep it up, though, good progress --I'm not sure I could handle all that squatting after all those DL sets. How long do you rest in between work sets?

Thanks!

I'm talking about 5RM.

According to my android app, I'm already past 300 1RM for squat, and my bench is really close to 225. My 1 RM in DL still has a way to go for 350.

I take roughly 3-5 minutes in between heavy DL sets.

I'll also take 3-5 minutes between heavy squats, OHP, and bench.

For the ten sets of three, I take one minute. It's really freakin' tough when you hit sets 6-10! The sweat really starts pouring as it's kinda like heavy-ass cardio. The reps are "dynamic effort" which basically means exploding up fast while maintaining control. This time, I did okay with the bar speed, but I don't feel like I really hit my stride until about set 7. Still getting used to them, but they're fun imo.

just found your log . our lifts and size and problem with all the fat migrating to the belly are very similar. will be following and gl

Thanks!

Yeah, it took some months of lurking here before I felt like I should start a log. Maybe you will feel the same way.

Aura --

Reading back through this thread, you are missing out on another pretty good goal to shoot for in the near term: a one plate press for your work sets. I recently achieved it and it is pretty damn satisfying -- looks like you're pretty close so go get it son.