Figured I'd add myself to this list, I actually started Stronglifts5x5 independent of TL. Starting light because I don't have much experience lifting weights + doing compound exercises.
nemY Age: 24 || Height: 5'8 || Weight: 155lbs Starting Date: 02/14/11 || Goal Date: I don't know... 6 months from now? I want to keep lifting for the rest of my life, but in order to keep in line with my weight goals, I'll say 6 months from now. 20 lbs in 6 months seems reasonable right? Weight goals -- 175lbs Training goals -- Squats: 225lbs. Bench: 195lbs Press/DL/Rows? Unsure of, but significant growth from where I started Nutrition goals -- GET HUGE Misc goals -- Get a job, start life, get accepted in and start grad school.
Right now my lifts are: Squats: 5x5x135 Bench: 5x5x110 Press: 5x5x70 BB Rows: 5x5x100 (but this is the exercise i feel the stupidest doing form wise) DL: 1x5x165
They aren't huge, but I'm progressing steadily along, 5lbs each workout and 10lbs on DL. Right now I have a few concerns on my form for some exercises (mainly rows and squats), but tomorrow I get to meet with a physical trainer for some help/insight. I'm excited because this guy is an ex-powerlifter/bodybuiler and hits me as a "man's man" when it comes to working out.
For the record I'm already up to 166lbs (sup GOMAD), but I know that I'll be losing some of this weight in a few months when I get off the milk train.
On February 28 2011 07:31 nemY wrote: Figured I'd add myself to this list, I actually started Stronglifts5x5 independent of TL. Starting light because I don't have much experience lifting weights + doing compound exercises.
nemY Age: 24 || Height: 5'8 || Weight: 155lbs Starting Date: 02/14/11 || Goal Date: I don't know... 6 months from now? I want to keep lifting for the rest of my life, but in order to keep in line with my weight goals, I'll say 6 months from now. 20 lbs in 6 months seems reasonable right? Weight goals -- 175lbs Training goals -- Squats: 225lbs. Bench: 195lbs Press/DL/Rows? Unsure of, but significant growth from where I started Nutrition goals -- GET HUGE Misc goals -- Get a job, start life, get accepted in and start grad school.
Right now my lifts are: Squats: 5x5x135 Bench: 5x5x110 Press: 5x5x70 BB Rows: 5x5x100 (but this is the exercise i feel the stupidest doing form wise) DL: 1x5x165
They aren't huge, but I'm progressing steadily along, 5lbs each workout and 10lbs on DL. Right now I have a few concerns on my form for some exercises (mainly rows and squats), but tomorrow I get to meet with a physical trainer for some help/insight. I'm excited because this guy is an ex-powerlifter/bodybuiler and hits me as a "man's man" when it comes to working out.
For the record I'm already up to 166lbs (sup GOMAD), but I know that I'll be losing some of this weight in a few months when I get off the milk train.
Welcome aboard. 20lbs in 6 months is easily doable. Just stick to the 3 basic principles: eating, sleeping and lifting.
You could always videotape yourself doing various lifts and have us comment on it
I did 20 pounds in 3 months when I started lifting and eating right - but that's coming from being significantly underweight. In fact, I'm still small for my height, but I'm having trouble keeping enough food in the fridge to keep putting on pounds. I''ve stalled out since putting on those first 20, only adding another 10 in the 3 months since. If there's any lift you don't feel comfortable with, absolutely take video. Even if you just watch it yourself, rather than uploading it and having us check your form, it's still the most useful tool ever just to get another perspective on what you're doing. Can't stress enough how much this helps.
Finally feeling fully recovered from my last squat workout. Time to go blast out some deads and squats and basically wreck my self so I can't walk tomorrow. Looking forward to it.
On February 27 2011 08:11 decafchicken wrote: WHERE YOU BEEN MALINOR?
Had my first work-out after half a year yesterday. It will take some months to catch up to you guys again. I guess you have to crush other dudes numbers in the meantime.
Doing Squats yesterday, my hamstrings and adductors actually got sore during my first work-set and today I can't walk. Shoulder seemed ok, but I have to take any upper-body work pretty slow. So basically lots of squatting and dealifting. Cleans are out of the question at the moment, so I cannot challenge you on the C&J front
There's a possibility I'll be heading down to rutgers at the end of March, if I can find a way to get there. You'll have to get me into that gym so I can see some awesome oly lifting in real life Dimsum.
Hey guys. I lost shape and started smoking 6 years ago. Time to roll up the fucken sleeves.
Alex Age: 24 || Height: 6 || Weight: 245lbs Starting Date: 02/25/11 First Goal Date: March 26th Weight goals -- 235 lbs Training goals -- Jogging every night. 4 nights so far, skipped yesterday :S I haven't measured the distance yet, but its kicking my ass, especially lungs. fucken horrible. Nothing else just yet, but I'm taking suggestions. I don't have a gym membership. Nutrition goals -- Eat right. Lots of fruit, minimal processed meats and carbs. Misc goals -- Getting a Kawasaki Ninja from my uncle, I want to look good. The next goal is for June 24th my birthday. I need to look real good.
Here's the work I got cut out for me (spoiler unfortunate beer gut): + Show Spoiler +
edit: I've been quitting sporadically and now its more than a week and I'm fucken confident as hell. smokes are shit and they tarred up my lungs. I'm just hoping I can recover well enough to be effective on the street and in the gym.
On February 27 2011 22:04 RosaParksStoleMySeat wrote: Hmm, energies your lat strength seems waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of your chest/legs. Excluding legs (where you destroy me), we're at about the same strength with me having a slightly stronger bench IIRC, but I only do 7 pull ups with 15kg on my waist.
I think body weight is a huge part of pull ups. While we do see 310 pound guys who do 25 pull ups, everybody knows that on the pull up test in junior high the 5'3 95 pound kid rocked out 15 reps while the tall guys barely managed two. In terms of trained athletes, thinner guys generally outperform heavier guys with pull ups for obvious reasons.
Anyway, nice job.
Although my chest and shoulders are a reasonable size, unfortunately I don't feel that I will ever be able to get those numbers up as I dislocated my shoulder almost 2 years ago and it has never been the same.
You're right, my lifts aren't really balanced, it's kinda embarrassing unloading like 130kg off the bar after squats, loading up 2x10kg plates and struggling on a few sets of OP.
On February 28 2011 15:14 alexpnd wrote: Hey guys. I lost shape and started smoking 6 years ago. Time to roll up the fucken sleeves.
Alex Age: 24 || Height: 6 || Weight: 245lbs Starting Date: 02/25/11 First Goal Date: March 26th Weight goals -- 235 lbs Training goals -- Jogging every night. 4 nights so far, skipped yesterday :S I haven't measured the distance yet, but its kicking my ass, especially lungs. fucken horrible. Nothing else just yet, but I'm taking suggestions. I don't have a gym membership. Nutrition goals -- Eat right. Lots of fruit, minimal processed meats and carbs. Misc goals -- Getting a Kawasaki Ninja from my uncle, I want to look good. The next goal is for June 24th my birthday. I need to look real good.
Here's the work I got cut out for me (spoiler unfortunate beer gut): + Show Spoiler +
edit: I've been quitting sporadically and now its more than a week and I'm fucken confident as hell. smokes are shit and they tarred up my lungs. I'm just hoping I can recover well enough to be effective on the street and in the gym.
doing cardio 7 nights a week might be overdoing it tbh mate. any specific reason you are doing cardio instead of weightlifting? also, fruits are kinda dodgy if you want to lose fat. eat more veggies and meat and stay away from processed foods and grains.
On February 27 2011 21:17 unknown.sam wrote: @sjarl: i still don't buy the argument. decaf and energies are significantly heavier than i am and they can both do a lot more pull ups than me. not to mention their +weight being a greater percentage of their bw than mine as well.
i understand where you're coming from, but i think your argument really only applies to those persons who have a lot more fat than muscle, which is the reason why they are so heavy in the first place.
@energies: well yeah high reps means muscular endurance, but i doubt you'd be able to find a handful of people who could do +15kg for 5 reps at your bodyweight.
Probably because they are a whole lot stronger than you.
exactly, that was the whole point of my post. pull ups require a lot more strength than people are willing to admit.
Fuck. Just failed squats @ 75kg for the third time, time to deload. I failed my Bench press, overhead press and dead lifts last time I did them too . I think once I deload my squats everything should sort itself out because these squats are fucking killing me and making every workout soooo draining, with less effort in squats I'll have more energy for the rest of my workout. On the plus side I can now hang power clean correctly so 40kg actually felt easier than 37.5kg. And I made my 8.75kg chinups 3x5 despite a sore left arm which I hope comes good before I next have to OHP =/
I was kinda pissed that I had to deload, but now that I think about it, I feel like it's a blessing. It's soooo crushing to fail every 5x5 twice before I make it JUST to the next level of weight. Hopefully this'll push me through the plateau I seem to have hit
Clean so awesome though! Those shoes are almost as sexy as your snatching ^_^
Lol, that looked so easy. Like riddiculously easy.
@alexpnd: Keep jogging but you might want to have an off day once in a while and incoporate heavy lifting. That will lean you out.
Don't worry about your lungs, it will be hell first when they are cleaning all the shit out of your system, but after a while you will start to feel better and better (not to mention you'll get better endurance aswell).
Out of curiosity, how did you start your training? Did you walk in to an oly lifting club and started throw weights right away or was you put on a program or something? Did you do any training before you started oly lifting?
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