11/2/17

Press: 2x5x95, 1x8x95

DL: 1x11x225

11/5

Bench: 2x5x137.5, 1x10x137.5

Squat: 2x5x210, 1x11x210

My fiance is going to be working out with me doing gslp so I'll be keeping a log of her progress in this thread also.

Bench: 2x5x60, 1x11x60

Squat: 2x5x45, 1x10x45

11/10/17

Press: 2x5x97.5, 1x8x97.5

Squat: 2x5x215, 1x12x215

Deanna

Press: 2x5x45, 1x10x45 (I think this bar is 15)

Squat: 2x5x50, 1x13x50

11/14/17

Bench: 2x5x140, 1x11x140

DL: 1x13x230

Deanna:

Bench: 2x5x65, 1x7x65

DL: lots of singles, showing her proper form. I think 135 is doable but form needs work

11/19/17

Press: 2x5x100, 1x9x100....2x5x50, 1x8x50

Squat: 2x5x220, 1x11x220....2x5x60, 1x13x60

11/24/17

Bench: 2x5x145, 1x10x145

Squat: 2x5x225

11/26/17

Press: 2x5x102.5, 1x7x102.5

DL: 1x13x240

Chins: 8, 7 (bw)

Deanna:

Press: 2x5x52.5, 1x9x52.5

Squat: 2x5x70, 1x13x70

12/15/17

Bench: 2x5x140, 1x12x140

Squat: 2x5x220, 1x10x220

I need some advices fellas.

Instead of doing compound barbell lifts I've recently started doing daily push up & pull ups. Im using a couple apps that track my progress and make the workouts incrementally more difficult. Additionally I'm doing HIIT 2-3x a week.

I have no real reason for this except this type of workout routine is more fun for me as opposed to barbell lifts and thus I'm more motivated.

My question is this: is it suboptimal to train both push ups and pull ups daily? Should I rotate them daily? I'm doing 5 sets of 25-30% of max, with 90 sec rest intervals in between, which equates to 60 push ups and about 15-20 pull ups as of my last workouts.

1 Set maxes:

Push ups: 35
Pull ups: 8

When I was gymless, I bought this book called Jailhouse Strong. It's full of body weight workouts.

Off the top of my head, the highest frequency one was 12 workouts/ week, on an a/b/c bodypart split. For what it's worth, the full-body ones were usually 3-4 days. However they involved WAY more volume than 60 push-ups and 20 pull-ups. Still, I don't think your method is that great for the long run. But I'd bet it'll be fine up to, say, 250 push-ups and 50 pullups in less than 7 sets.

When I had a blue-collar job the guys used to have a 200 push-ups/day challenge. I did that for awhile without any problems (so 5-6 days a week), but I don't think I ever really improved after getting it done in 5-8 sets. Didn't weight train at the time. I think once you can do 50+ pull-ups in a session, you're probably going to get some burn-out doing them daily. Or at least elbow problems.

I've never been good at figuring out how to overload bw stuff. Highly recommend the Jailhouse Strong book. Lots of good progressions.