Another weakling looking to get strong

Haven't tried starting a new thread for a while, don't know what to tell ya. A while back people were having issues with it and they had to post the thread title as one word, then after the thread was started go back and edit the title to what they wanted it to be.
 
I realized, that I make a lot of log entries stating XxBW, but never keep track of my actual body weight. From now on I will keep track.

BW: 109kg

DIPS:

5xBW
5xBW+10kg
5xBW+20kg
4xBW+30kg
4xBW+30kg

BENCH:

5x70kg
5x90kg
5x90kg

SOHP:

6x50kg
4x60kg
3x60kg
3x60kg (push press)
3x50kg
3x50kg

SQUATS:
8x60kg
8x90kg
8x100kg

INCLINE BENCH:

6x50kg
6x50kg
6x50kg

Then some wrist curls.
 
BW: 110kg

BACK SQUAT:
5x60kg
5x100kg
1x150kg (+5kg pr)
0x155kg (got it about half way up)
3x125kg + 4 BW chins
3x125kg + 3 BW chins
3x125kg + 3 BW chins

FRONT SQUAT:

4x90kg
2x110kg + 3 BW chins
1x120kg (pr)
3x100kg
3x100kg

BACK SQUAT:
5x100kg
5x100kg + 3 BW chins

Then some calf raises.
 
First some OH squats and cleans as a warm up.

DEADLIFT:
4x148kg
0x207kg (tried several times, but couldn't get it)
1x182kg DOH
1x182kg DOH
1x182kg
1x182kg
1x182kg
1x182kg
1x182kg + 10 shrugs
6x162kg RDL
5x162kg + 10 shrugs
8x162kg

8x162kg really wore me out, did a couple of BORs with 88kg, but couldn't keep good form, so I just called it quits for today.
 
I think I pulled a muscle somewhere near my left shoulder blade yesterday. It felt fine at work throughout the day, but it hurts really bad now.

SQUATS:

8x60kg
6x100kg
2x130kg
2x130kg

BENCH:
6x60kg
3x110kg (pr)
5x100kg
4x100kg

SOHP:
3x60kg
3x60kg
1x70kg (pr)
1x70kg
3x60kg
3x60kg

CLOSE GRIP BENCH:

8x60kg

This really aggravated my back.

SPEED BENCH:

20x60kg
12x60kg
10x60kg

Then I decided it would probably better to go home.
 
First some OH squats and cleans as a warm up.

DEADLIFT:
4x148kg
0x207kg (tried several times, but couldn't get it)

If you're going for a heavy single, you might want to improve your warmup. Personally before hitting that weight I'd do something like this (all in lbs):

135x8, 225x5, 275x3, 315x3, 365x1, 405x1, 425x1, Then go for 455.
 
That power clean was fucking tits. Those plates are cool. Where does one get plates like that? What brand are they?

EDIT: Nevermind, I saw the post on page 2 where you made the purchase. Those plates are very interesting.
 
If you're going for a heavy single, you might want to improve your warmup. Personally before hitting that weight I'd do something like this (all in lbs):

135x8, 225x5, 275x3, 315x3, 365x1, 405x1, 425x1, Then go for 455.

Yeah, I guess you're right. I'm starting to feel that I need to spend more time on a proper warm up and proper cool down after training. I think that could have prevented me from pulling something in my back. The thins is thought, that, especially on deadlifts, I feel like I lose a lot of energy if i do a lot of pulling before I try a heavy single. It might just be something I have to build up though, so thanks for the advice.
 
That power clean was fucking tits. Those plates are cool. Where does one get plates like that? What brand are they?

EDIT: Nevermind, I saw the post on page 2 where you made the purchase. Those plates are very interesting.

I'm planning on checking out a gym where they apparently can teach me proper form on oly lifts either this friday or next week. It looks like a cool gym, so I'm definitely excited about that.

About the plates: even though I've gotten more critique on my plates than on my form here, I'm still happy with them, especially since they were pretty cheap and they get the job done just as well.
 
The new gym I checked out today was pretty awesome. There was a girl training next to me who was a national champion in weightlifting and there were three power lifters preparing for an upcoming bench meet. The coach was a cool guy who went over some technique stuff with me. I didn't bring a log but since most of the things were more technique oriented it didn't really matter. Most weight I used today was 90kg for a couple of sets of squats. I'm excited about finally learning some good technique on oly lift.
 
The new gym I checked out today was pretty awesome. There was a girl training next to me who was a national champion in weightlifting and there were three power lifters preparing for an upcoming bench meet. The coach was a cool guy who went over some technique stuff with me. I didn't bring a log but since most of the things were more technique oriented it didn't really matter. Most weight I used today was 90kg for a couple of sets of squats. I'm excited about finally learning some good technique on oly lift.

Good for you. I'm jealous, actually. This forum is my only "coach" on form/technique. And from what the owner & manager of my gym told me, there's only one other guy in town that trains like I do.
 
I know exactly what you mean, it's been the same for me up until now. I actually came out of that gym thinking it was the coolest gym I've been to. If not for the fact that there were practically no machines there, it would be for the fact that there were only 2 mirrors in the entire fucking place. No wonder there wasn't a single curl monkey there. No way I'm going to walk into my old gym at any given time, let alone 7pm on a Friday night, and not find any curl monkeys.

I'm really looking forward to focusing on oly lifting for at least a while now and just to work out in an environment like this, with people watching my form and people actually lifting a lot more weight than I am.
 
Today I didn't feel all that great so I took it kind of easy while training.

I warmed up with some OH squats with just the bar and with 42kg. Do I suck at these, I'm gonna have to really work on them for my oly lifting. After that I did some power cleans with 42kg, 67kg and 87kg.

DEADLIFT:

4x113kg
3x148kg
2x173kg

Up until here all done DOH. Then I tried 193kg with DOH grip, but it slipped away about halfway up. So I switched to mixed grip for all 193kg reps.

1x193kg
1x193kg
1x193kg

DOH again:
1x173kg
1x173kg

POWER SHRUGS:
10x173kg
8x173kg
10x148kg

I then proceeded to do a couple of deadlifts with 148kg and some rows with 88kg. Then I called it quits for today. Well excited about going to my new gym again tomorrow.
 
I know exactly what you mean, it's been the same for me up until now. I actually came out of that gym thinking it was the coolest gym I've been to. If not for the fact that there were practically no machines there, it would be for the fact that there were only 2 mirrors in the entire fucking place. No wonder there wasn't a single curl monkey there. No way I'm going to walk into my old gym at any given time, let alone 7pm on a Friday night, and not find any curl monkeys.

I'm really looking forward to focusing on oly lifting for at least a while now and just to work out in an environment like this, with people watching my form and people actually lifting a lot more weight than I am.

I had a similar experience recently, only I can't go to that gym regularly cause it's 250 miles or so away. I did get a punch pass there though so whenever I go to visit I can work out there. There are pictures of it in my log.
 
Yeah I saw those pictures in your log, looks like a great gym man, too bad it's so far away. This new gym is a bit further away than my current one, but a half hour drive is well worth it if you ask me. Of course, that's nothing like 250 miles.

Unfortunately no oly training today, because the coach wasn't there today at the only time I could make it to the gym. Too bad, but we're gonna discuss a good schedule Friday to make sure stuff like this won't happen too often.

Of course, I still did some lifting.

BW: 112kg

SQUAT:

6x60kg (Front squat, because there was someone in the rack)
5x60kg
5x100kg
3x130kg
3x130kg
3x130kg

SOHP:
6x40kg
4x60kg
1x80kg (Push press)
1x90kg (Push press)
3x60kg
3x60kg
3x60kg
3x60kg
3x60kg
3x60kg
3x60kg
3x60kg

HANG SNATCH:
5x40kg
5x40kg
5x50kg
5x50kg
3x55kg
3x55kg
3x55kg
3x55kg

DIPS:
6xBW
12xBW
12xBW

Sucks that I forgot my dipping belt.
 
Oly training was awesome today. It was me and 3 other weight lifters. Of course for me, the focus was still mainly on form. Still got a good workout out of it though. Still didn't bring a log, so this is mostly from memory and since I spent about 2 hours training, I'm not really sure on how many sets I did with what weight. But it was something like this:

HANG SNATCH:
5x40kg
5x45kg
5x50kg
5x55kg
3x60kg
3x60kg
3x60kg
2x65kg

HANG CLEAN:

5x50kg
5x50kg
5x60kg
5x70kg
5x70kg
3x80kg
3x80kg
2x80kg

SQUAT:
5x50kg
5x50kg
5x70kg
5x90kg
5x110kg
3x120kg
3x120kg
2x120kg
2x120kg
2x120kg

I feel like my form on the oly lifts has really improved already, and the coach said that I was doing pretty good. Of course I'm still a long way from having perfect form on the full lifts, but I already feel like I;m progressing. Which feels great.
 
Today I first did some snatches and cleans to warm up. Don't know exactly how many.

DEADLIFT:
4x88kg (snatch grip)
4x102kg (snatch grip)
4x127kg (snatch grip)
4x148kg (snatch grip)
3x162kg (DOH)
2x187kg
1x187kg
1x187kg
1x187kg
1x187kg
1x187kg
4x162kg
3x148kg (3 DOH singles which I held in locked out position for as long as I could)

DB ROW (per arm):
6x40kg
5x50kg
8x50kg

Pretty short workout, but I didn't have a whole lot of energy. Besides that, my left hand hurt pretty bad from repeatedly trying to bend the red nail last Sunday. (Without any success)
 
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