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Originally Posted by loco
Log it or GTFO with that fake deadlift. I can't even get 315 off the ground, how is some random going to hoist 415 like that.
As an aspiring Loco award recipient I have decided to start a log here. I'll be deadlifting for the first time in a month tomorrow, and if it feels good I'll try to get a video of a heavy single. If not tomorrow, I'll get some videos up in the next week or two.
Background:
I graduated highschool as a fatty in 2009 weighing in at around 215 with a surprisingly low amount of lean body mass. I carried my fat pretty well and was unaware of much of a fatty I actually was until I got down to 160 and still didn't have abs. I went from 215 to 185 in my first summer semester of college just by not having access to a full sized refrigerator. I started training in January 2010 with a super bro split (chest tris/back bis/shoulders) and continued to lose weight while building some upper body strength. Over the summer I didn't have access to a gym and did have access to a full sized refrigerator and went from 175 back to 185 while losing some of my new found upper body mass. Some time over the summer I discovered bodybuilding.com and had the brilliant revelation that I should be training legs.
Sophomore year of college I wasted my time with a 5 day bodybuilding split where I hit each body part once a week. I often skipped rest days and typically ended up hitting each body part 5 times a month. I ended the year at 175 with a 200 pound squat, 265 deadlift, and a 165 pound bench (1RMs).
Over that summer I actually got a gym membership and promptly started a SS type program (Stronglifts 5x5) and actually started to make progress. I reset both my squat and bench really low after discovering my form was garbage. By the end of the summer my form was pretty solid and I was starting to make solid strength gains.
Junior year I screwed around with all types of programs, usually mutilating them and adding tons of worthless volume. I eventually settled into something resembling Layne Norton's PHAT and made some decent progress. Around December 2011 I weighed 161 with a squat of 200x5, 325x1 deadlift, and 180x1 bench. I still didn't have abs and I was pretty pissed off about it. I suffered a few stupid injuries in the beginning of 2012 so I reset the weights and spent a lot of time on mobility/prehab/rehab.
Luckily I was able to stay up at school over the summer and made some pretty sweet progress leading into this year. In early June I hit a 400 deadlift but realized once again that my form was turrible. Since then I've barely done any conventional deadlifts, except to hit PRs or 405, 410, and 415 with a month or two between them. I focused on my hip strength during this time, doing a lot of deficit deadlifts and recently I started pulling sumo. I pulled 415 sumo on my second last workout of 2012, and finally benched 225 the following day. I've been neglecting back squats for a while but (barely) hit a 280 PR sometime in November.
Over the holiday break I did a lot of reading on different programs and watched a bunch of old Westside Barbell videos and will now be doing some bastardized form of Westside training that I programmed myself. I'll definitely be overreaching but I think I can avoid overtraining and I'll add in an additional day of rest if necessary.
The current split will be:
1. Dynamic Effort Bench
2. Main Effort Lower body (alternating squat and deadlift)
3. conditioning/abs/kettlebell work
4. Main Effort Bench
5. Dynamic Effort lower body (both speed squats and speed pulls)
6. conditioning/abs/kettlebell work
Days 3 and 6 can be used for anything, and if necessary it'll be strictly for mobility work. If I need a day off, I'll take a day off, but for the most part I'll be in the gym everyday.
My goals with this split is to add some pounds to my total, improve conditioning, and maybe achieve abs (but probably not). If this is program is a complete fail due to overtraining, I will abort my mission of achieving abs and either strictly follow a westside template or go through some cycles of 5/3/1.