Had a BBQ chicken sandwich and a double order of fries for lunch today.... god I love cheat meals. Felt like I ate too much all afternoon, but by the time I made it to the gym apparently all the calories gave me some extra energy.

Squat
1x10x45
1x5x135
1x3x225
1x2x265
1x5x290
1x1x295

Before I got to the gym and during the warm up reps I was not sure at all that I was going to be able to pull it off. Got it out pretty easy though. Felt good. Depth could be like a few more inches I guess.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG5pIAl5JL8

Bench
1x10x45
1x5x95
1x3x135
1x2x155
1x5x175

Not bad, went up alright. Could have done another set after this, probably for 4 reps though.

Deadlift
1x8x135
1x3x225
1x5x275
1x1x315

Felt pretty good. Double overhand w/ chalk on the 5rm. Grip got worse on each rep. I bought straps but not sure if/when I want to start using them. The 1rm after my work set was just for the hell of it. Tried to pull it overhand and it didn't budge. Pulled it with a mixed grip pretty easy. Felt a twinge of pain for 1-2 mins after standing up in/near my infraspinatus on the supine side of the grip.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvsE-0SYxA

Curlz
1x8x30
7/6/5x60

Why not?

PWO weight 180.6lbs

FU volume day.

Squat
1x10x45
1x5x135
1x2x225
5x5x240

Heavy. Energy low... tried to eat "a lot" today. Lack of sleep maybe??

Press
1x10x45
1x5x65
1x3x95
5x5x110

Slow.

Row
1x10x45
1x5x95
1x3x115
5x5x135

Pretty worn out from the other 2 lifts, but this was not bad.

Was supposed to WO yesterday, but got woken up very early and was too tired. Went today, and will go for volume day on Tuesday. I hope that's enough time to recover.

Post WO weight: 178.8

Squat
1x10x45
1x5x135
1x3x225
1x2x275
1x5x295

Came up on my toes on at least one rep. Plus my depth is questionable. Did not feel as good as 290 did last week. Oh well... 300 next week

Video: Youtube

Press
1x10x45
1x3x95
1x2x115
1x3x135

Ugh. Got a video for the first time, and of course its the day where I fail miserably. I push pressed up my first rep, so I don't count it as a strict press rep. I do this pretty often. Is that ok/standard? I pause at the top normally and have a hard time starting from a dead stop at the bottom.

Video: Youtube

Deadlift
1x8x135
1x2x225
1x5x285
1x3x285

All double overhand. Used chalk for my work set, and used straps for the 3 bonus reps. First time ever using straps, felt kind of weird. Will have to work on getting them into a good position. No Video.

Barbell Curls
1x7x45
7/6/5 x 55
Did them in the squat rack

hmm. i'd probably redo 295 because of the depth and the fact that it was still hard.

can't tell for sure but your press grip looks too wide, elbows aren't forward enough so the bar sits somewhat low on your chest. i don't really like the thought of push pressing the first rep because you'll never train the bottom portion without the stretch reflex. although that's exactly like the bench press so i have no real basis for saying it. if you continue doing it like this you should at least try to perfect your push press form. rack the bar on your shoulders, drive through your heels.

When I press, I have been holding the bar on my sternum like right below my clavicles with my elbows down. I tried doing it from the "rack" position and it felt awkward. I will work on that though. I will watch the SS video on press again.

I think doing 295 again and focusing on hitting a good depth is not a bad idea. Thanks for the comments.

no i'm not saying to press from that position, but to push press from there if you're going to continue push pressing the first rep anyway. but when you get to pressing, your elbows should be more forward which would raise the bar up a little.

Volume day weeeee

Bench Press
1x10x45
1x5x95
5x5x145

Shoulder was hurting a bit w/e

Squat
1x10x45
1x5x135
1x2x225
5x5x245

Not bad. Not easy, but I guess that's the point...

Pendlay Row
1x10x45
1x5x115
5x5x140

Easy.

Dips
3x5

Recovery day.

Squat
1x10x45
1x10x135
1x5x185
1x3x235
1x5x135

Incline Bench
1x10x45
1x10x95
2x5x135

Chin-Ups
3x5x+0

Back Hypers
3x10x+25

Ok so tried a little experiment today. Let me be the first to say it failed. Trying to lift intensity day the day after recovery day is fueled by false hopes. I got 9.5 hours of sleep last night. Ate a big breakfast and a big lunch. Was feeling great, figured I would go lift the world. The bar thought otherwise...

Squat
1x10x45
1x5x135
1x3x225
1x2x275
1x3x300
1x1x300

Bench
1x10x45
1x5x95
1x3x135
1x2x155
1x2x180

Deadlift
1x8x135
1x3x225
1x3x295
1x1x295

BB Curls
1x10x45
3x5x65

Now I see why bro's do these. Can bang out 3 sets even when my body feels like ****.

BB Shrugs
1x5x135
2x5x225

First time ever doing them, just wanted to see what it felt like. Probably won't do them again.




So, of course I was rather demoralized after this WO. Not sure how much of the failure is due to not taking a day in between recovery and intensity, and how much of it is due to the fact that I just can't keep progressing while eating 1k cals under maintenance.

Post WO weight 175.8

The missing day probably didn't help, but consistently eating 1k below maintenance and expecting progress on your lifts seems like a pipe dream to me.

Hey mate... Any chance you've still got that TM spreadsheet posted somewhere... The original link doesn't seem to work..

Gimme 1 or 2 days, I'll post my new version. I meant to finish it about a month ago, but got side tracked and forgot about it.

Cool nps. Don't worry about it if you're not actually using it. I just thought you were using now.

Actually nvm, I just found a copy that I saved ages ago.

Well I'm just adding a button that will take your current numbers and copy them back to the beginning so you can continue using the sheet after you go thru all the weeks.

HalfSlant's Texas Method Spreadsheet v1.1 available here: LINK

You will need to enable macros to use the buttons. I did not do extensive testing, please let me know if anything is not working, or if it is confusing to use.

I realize this may not be very useful after the first few weeks, once you get the hang of TM, but it was fun to make.

You're sick.

One quick suggestion... and you're going to hate yourself for missing this...

In the HTMSS sheet, you change the exercise name to be whatever you set it to on the Itro sheet in the weekly workout boxes... but not in the top "Starting Weight" and "Current Weight" boxes.

Oh, and one thing I changed in your original one was to make everything round to the nearest 2.5 instead of 5 because i am working in kgs... but even working in lbs, it might be nice to have that configurable...

Also, you are right here, but it really is a birrion usefulls at the start, so ty.

Hmmm, good point about rounding to 2.5. Damn metric system!

Having a WIM crisis. Volume day grinding me into dark times.....

Squat
1x10x45
1x5x135
1x3x225
5x5x250

Woof.

Press
1x10x45
1x5x95
5/5/5/4x115

Wrist started hurting quite a bit. Probably was not keeping it straight enough.

Pendlay rows
1x10x45
1x5x95
5x5x145

Starting to get a lil heavy, no problems though.



Ok so here's my problem. I want to look like a bodybuilder (to some extent), and I do not play sports or have any other real athletic goals. Am I doing it wrong? I am currently eating more than 1000 cals below mainenance, (26 out of the last 30 days). While slowly progressing on TM. I've lost ~10lbs so far, which is good I guess. Its just getting F heavy. Oh well guess I'm just being a puss. I would really like to lift 1000lbs S/B/D total, just to do it. So I guess I'll keep at it for now, maybe get back on SS and eat more after the summer.

Oh, I just noticed one other thing about your spreadsheet.

If you are going to make it so that you can round your numbers to 2.5 (for kgs), you'll have to alter the rounding/conditions on the deadlift warm-up sets to 60 instead of 135.

For the cutting part, you'll probably be forced to reduce volume/accept stalling pretty soon.

For the bodybuilding part, you'll probably want to adjust the program some imo, add more accessory stuff. This is not my forte though, but something I'm interested in as well - my goals are like 70/30 aesthetics/strength (although I don't want a true bodybuilder body).

Recovery day... ez pz.

Box Squat
1x10x45
1x5x135
1x3x185
3x3x195

Push Press
1x10x45
1x5x65
3x3x95
1x135

Used the pad ala G4S. Curse you inflexible wrists! They still hurt actually... might need to get wraps. Pretty pathetic since the weight is so low. Maybe I'm just holding the bar incorrectly.

Chin-Ups
5/7/5

I like pull ups better.

Back Hypers
3x10x+25

Might add some more weight next time.