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Right, I’m going to start up a log again

To cut a long story short, my story so far: I joined here as an anorexic looking guy entering my mid twenties, I started out looking to gain size and strength at any cost. I succeeded at that but the cost was getting pretty fat at 235lbs. I then thought I needed to get leaner, which I did and dropped below 200lbs. Since then and for about 12 months I’ve yo-yo’d in weight a lot as I was torn between aesthetic and strength training goals which was basically wasted time as I didn’t achieve what I should have done. I’m currently at 207lbs

About a month ago I decided to focus purely on strength; that means very little consideration for physical appearance and the numbers are king

I haven’t actually finalised a training schedule as yet but I’ll post it when I do, it’s basically going to focus heavily around a few key lifts, one being focused on heavily in each session.

Some rough ball park numbers for targets to be hit by the end of the year at the latest:
Squat: 500lbs
Clean & Press: 220lbs
Bench: 330lbs
Deadlift: 400lbs (I know I hit this mark about 2 years ago but had many hamstring injuries since)

My current maxes for these
Squat: 462
Clean & Press: 165
Bench: 286
Deadlift: approx 350 (can’t deadlift heavy right now to test because of ham pull)

The clean and press is the one I want most of all, for a start even BigT is OH pressing more than me although I think he might be being a ****y and not cleaning it first ;)

My diet is also awful, if anyone fancies a pet project and creating something for me then please feel free. I’m terrible with diet and always end up being lazy and eating whatever is easiest. Calorie intake is probably going to be at approx 5,000 a day though

So enough yapping, it’s time to get on and actually start posting some stuff on here and getting those lift numbers up
 
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Glad to see your finally posting a f**king journal again! Are we going to stick with this one? :p

Some big targets there, your squatting has always made me jealous :D

I used to only do clean & pushpress! If you look in my journal a while back i got 198x1 ;)

Just to not look a p*ssy i might even start cleaning the weight again! Good luck mate.
 
I basically did a day of squatting today, I went to the closest gym to me which only has a smith machine, next week I’ll try and make the extra distance over to the gym with the squat rack.

Lunges
8x121 (waiting for smith machine to become free)

Smith Machine squats
5x220
3x286
3x352
3x396
10x352
2x440
2x462
10x352

Leg press calf raises
2x12@ 251 (single leg)
2x30@ 251 (both legs)

Crunches (feet up against wall)
3xas many as I could

It wasn’t a particularly adventurous session but I haven’t gone heavy in a while and wanted to see what was in me. My hamstring has a pull in it from deadlifting last week so every rep was a little painful once I hit parallel. Once the hamstring is better though I’m going to try pushing up nearer 470
 
BigTomW said:
Glad to see your finally posting a f**king journal again! Are we going to stick with this one? :p

Some big targets there, your squatting has always made me jealous :D

I used to only do clean & pushpress! If you look in my journal a while back i got 198x1 ;)

Just to not look a p*ssy i might even start cleaning the weight again! Good luck mate.
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Haha, I might stick with it, it depends on whether I get any decent posts and not a load of people asking why I eat so much, lift when ill/injured, train so frequently blah, blah, blah

Do you have guest passes for your gym oop norf? I might have to take a trip up there on teh £1 coach tickets and have a session and booze up. The 198 clean and press sounds cool
 
Typhon said:
Haha, I might stick with it, it depends on whether I get any decent posts and not a load of people asking why I eat so much, lift when ill/injured, train so frequently blah, blah, blah

Do you have guest passes for your gym oop norf? I might have to take a trip up there on teh £1 coach tickets and have a session and booze up. The 198 clean and press sounds cool
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Doesn't matter what people say mate, just do your thing!!!

Don't have guest passes but a single session is £4.75. Would be good to have a sesh sometime then get on the piss after :D
 
A little idea of yesterday’s training. I was focusing on the clean and press so warmed up with a few reps at 132, then 154 (previous pb) and then moved up to 2x165, I attempted that again but only made the one rep. I think I might just be able to manage 176 for one rep next week but might try 171 instead and take the progression slowly as I know if I fail on 176 it’ll be unlikely that I manage 171 on the follow-up.

I then did 5x5 on single arm DB power snatches at 83lbs. I like using these two lifts together as the Mens Health crew all crowded round the benches haven’t got a bloody clue as they’ve never seen a lift that didn’t involve lying or sitting down before and they all look on confused.

Moved on to some shrugs, bent over rows and lateral raises. Next session is going to focus far more on pulling though as I’ve got the lats of a girl and need to build my back up, especially as heavy deads are going to be out of the question for a while
 
I was planning on trying to write a training plan last night but had to go food shooping instead, I then fell alseep for a couple of hours in front of the TV so still haven't got round to doing it.

At least I have tons of food
 
I forgot to write down what I did today, and the weights used, it went something like

Pull ups
2x10
1x6

Single arm cable rows
4x10@ 165

4x10 on some back fly machine thingy

BB Bicep curls
4x10 @ 77 (I know it’s a bit of a ****y weight but my bi’s were very tired from pulling)

And there was something else I did too but can’t remember what it was now, I do remember watch a woman bouncing around in a cardio class while I did them though.

I’ll have to get that plan sorted so I can make my log more structured
 
So why do you train when you're injured and sick, don't you know you can get overtrained?
Why do you train so often? Don't you know each muscle needs at LEAST 48 hours to recover?
Also, why do you eat so much? And why do you eat so much fat? Don't you know fat is bad for you? You should keep your fat intake below 25% of your calories, and no more than 300mg of cholesterol! Not to mention the saturated fat.. OH MY GAWD THE SATURATED FAT!!!

seriously though, you've got some good numbers. YOu're a strong dude. KEep it up!
 
Karky said:
So why do you train when you're injured and sick, don't you know you can get overtrained?
Why do you train so often? Don't you know each muscle needs at LEAST 48 hours to recover?
Also, why do you eat so much? And why do you eat so much fat? Don't you know fat is bad for you? You should keep your fat intake below 25% of your calories, and no more than 300mg of cholesterol! Not to mention the saturated fat.. OH MY GAWD THE SATURATED FAT!!!
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Yeah! And Smith Machine squats? Are you kidding me! WTF!

lol, Keep up the great work and keep us posted!
 
JohnnySolo said:
Yeah! And Smith Machine squats? Are you kidding me! WTF!
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If your bodys comfortable doing them then they're better than not squatting all imo! ;)

Is the only reason you couldn't do BB squats because there was no squat rack at that gym rich?

2x10 in pullups, nice....
 
BigTomW said:
If your bodys comfortable doing them then they're better than not squatting all imo! ;)

Is the only reason you couldn't do BB squats because there was no squat rack at that gym rich?

2x10 in pullups, nice....
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I think he was just mucking about ;)

But yeah, the SM squats are when I'm too lazy or have too little time to go a little bit further to the gym with the squat rack
 
I weighed in at 210lbs last night, i did feel bloated before I stepped on the scales though so maybe I'm carrying a little too much water. I'll take every lb though, I'm getting a bit pissed off at being too small
 
I still have that hamstring issue but it’s a lot better, I still didn’t want to push it too far directly though so did some light Deads and Romanian deads, both at 220lbs at 10 reps

After that I did some foam roller work on my legs to try and improve healing and then went onto a lot of core work with high rep crunches (legs resting high up a wall) and leg raises

I know this was all pretty light weight stuff but I just couldn’t get motivated, work sucks right now, my industry is suffering badly from the recession and it’s August which is dead at the best of times. The fact I work on new business sales most of the time just rubs salt in the wound

I finished off with some sprint work as I think I need to get my aerobic capacity up in order to get the most out of my lifting sessions
 
Karky said:
So why do you train when you're injured and sick, don't you know you can get overtrained?
Why do you train so often? Don't you know each muscle needs at LEAST 48 hours to recover?
Also, why do you eat so much? And why do you eat so much fat? Don't you know fat is bad for you? You should keep your fat intake below 25% of your calories, and no more than 300mg of cholesterol! Not to mention the saturated fat.. OH MY GAWD THE SATURATED FAT!!!

seriously though, you've got some good numbers. YOu're a strong dude. KEep it up!
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LOL!

and yer newly married! why not log the cardio for us
 
Typhon said:
I would if I were getting any!

I think I described the wedding night 'cardio' to Tom somewhere on here but since then it's been more of a solo effort :)
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oh boooo

well make sure and switch hands, keeps yer forearm and bicept development balanced.

hugs :D
 
flyinfree said:
oh boooo

well make sure and switch hands, keeps yer forearm and bicept development balanced.

hugs :D
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Haha, I got bicep tendonitis once from giving her some manual relief but never any problem with myself :D
 
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