She looks a lot more like Ann Heche than Dunst.

Kirsten Dunst

Alright another total **** day today. God must be punishing me for trolling Thremp's log with inane nonsense (though I AM "allowed" to post there)

Light squat
Warmup
220x5x2 Alright wtf is going on, ankle/outer calf is still hurting even under light loads and now the right one too. Going to try a different pair of shoes and be sure not to bounce off of calves at the bottom. I will invest in some proper weightlifting shoes I think, especially if it spares me the horrendous ankle pain I'm getting.

Press
Warmup
122.5x5x2
122.5x4 repeat weight, more pains in tricep, elbow, and shoulder joint.

Deadlift
135x5
185x4
225x3
275x2
295x1
342.5x3 Just damn tired and joints aching everywhere. I know I'm strong enough to do this, just wasn't in the cards today.

If things don't get better on Friday I think my body is telling to to slow the **** down and I'll reset all of my lifts and deload. Going to repeat 270sq and do chins instead of cleans on Friday. The last few workouts have been frustrating.

Skipped accessories again, I know, shocking.

Correct, that is Kirsten Dunst. Would hit.

Alright, I was hoping it was something minor, but it's definitely achilles tendinitis from using a terrible shoe. I got used to lifting barefoot but a few weeks ago the BIIIITTTCCCHHHHH staff members at my gym decided to make a new rule where shoes must be worn. My heels were leaving the ground a bit using a ****ty running shoe and I'm pretty sure that's what put the stress on the tendon. The pains coincided perfectly for when I started squatting with shoes.

I couldn't even sleep last night because my ankles and calves hurt so damn much. It really felt like it was getting better until then, guess not. I guess I'm only going to train press/bench/chin for a few weeks. But that just feels broish and gay, I may as well not train if I'm not going to squat.


http://www.maxbarbell.com/collection...g-shoes-silver

anyone know if these are good?

The most non-bro thing that anyone could really say. Tough as nails. Gives me a partial boner. Kristen Dunst will kill it though, don't worry.

YEsterday I benched 197.5x5x3 and did some chinups and db rows. It was about as exciting as it sounds. I was only able to do 8 dead hang chins because I have gained a lot of weight since the last time I was doing chins regularly. I never realized how ridiculously easy bro workouts are until doing ss for a while. I felt like I hadn't even trained afterward.

I'm going to be moving in with my parents in 3 weeks for 3 months of summer break, which kinda sucks. But it also means I will be training at this place:http://www.phoenixweightliftingclub.com/ and getting coaching. I should be recovered by then. I want to focus more on olympic lifts but I'd still like to train my low bar squat, dl, and bench. I think that one program justin posted on 70sbig looks good, but I'll probably see what the coach has to say about programming.

Ankles are feeling a lot better. I'm going to shoot for either next monday or wednesday for my return. I've been using a baseball bat as if it were a foam roller on my outer calves which seems to be helping.

Well fuuucccckkkk. I haven't squat heavy since April 12th, this was a very long and ****-sexual layoff. I blame it entirely on the gym staff for forbidding me from lifting weights barefoot, and not on my own refusal to invest in proper footwear earlier or poor form in improper footwear. But alas:



Squats
warmup
245x5 way too heavy, very draining, felt a little bit of ankle pain, didn't think I would make the next two sets, and didn't want to mess up ankles again. t
225x5
225x5
no ankle pain the last two sets, I think I'm pretty close to being healed.

Bench
warmup
180x5x3 ezpz

Power clean
warmup
145x3 holy **** this was hard
135x3x4 ok still way harder than it should have been

I dunno how long it's going to take me to regain my strength. My squat strength typically comes back after a 3-4 sessions after a full week layoff. Deadlift strength has taken me a lot longer to get back in the past. Going to go for 10lb jumps and squat 3x/week until I'm back at 265 or so.

bw also dropped from 203 to 196. I know there's probably science junk going on with water and glycogen here, but it was just depressing to step on the scale and be an adolescent male once again.

Oh yeah, I did see a doctor last week. It was anterior tibial tendinitis, not achilles. She said it mostly affects the soft tissue around the tendon and isn't very severe, told me to continue doing self-massage, keep it elevated and ice it. Did those things, got better.

Squat
45x5
95x5
135x4
165x3
195x2
210x1
235x5
235x5
235x5

Way too easy, should have jumped 10 or 20lbs. Still a little ankle pain so maybe good because I don't want to aggravate it. Gym closed early today for finals week, dl/bench tomorrow.

Bench press
wu
185x5
195x5
195x3

the 195 was an accident, I was working in with a guy doing 195 and forgot to take off the 5s. Oh well, 195x5 after an extended layoff is pretty good.

Daedlieft with running shoes

135x5
185x5
225x2
275x1
300x6 double overhand clean grip
Normally I take my shoes off right before my workset and pull, then put them back on before the attendant notices. They're on to me and I had to just pull with shoes, felt awful. This was my last deadlift session at this terrible hellhole for the next 3 and a half months. Really looking forward to being able to use chalk, go barefoot, and not have to drop my dls as though a baby were sleeping in the room.

Some farmers walks and foam rolling

Taking tomorrow off. Thursday squat press power clean.

From a different thread, but I thought I would ask you in your own thread. Do you actually feel sore from deadlifting the next day or would you actually need to do the actual deadlift to know it wouldn't work if you did it every other day?

It depends. When I pulled 337.5x5 a few weeks back I knew I was going to be plenty sore the day or 2 and I was right. I would not have been able to dl the next session and usually have a slightly harder time squatting if I didn't pay attention to recovery/foam roll enough. Having deadlifted only 300x6 today, I can already tell I'm not going to be sore and could probably dl next session or even tomorrow if I pleased.

If you're planning on increasing your deadlift frequency, you probably won't be able to go for a full 5rm each time and I would guess that your squats would suffer too. I think I remember reading that Smolov Junior can be applied to DLs if you don't squat while doing it.

Clean and push-"""Jerk"""
135 for like 20 singles. Predictably atrocious form. About half the time I was pretty much push pressing, but a couple weren't too bad.

Standing incline bench press but without a bench
115x5
115x5
115x4 leaned too far back and didn't get under the bar.

Squats (no belt with me today)
95x5x2
135x5
165x4
195x2
225x1
245x1
265x1
285x1


Played around a bit with high bar squats as well. Felt really weird, haven't done them in months.

Chins 7, 5 looooooolll go fat boy go fat boy go!

Sort of lackadaisical day overall, don't really feel as though I accomplished much. I'll be getting oly coaching starting next week some time and school is now over for the year.