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Started Starting Strength training a little more than a month ago. Today i felt that i am getting closer to what i am capable of lifting at the moment. That felt great, now i'll be starting to make that progress!
I havn't put up any time specific goals, as i don't know what i am capable of in what time. I've decided for some weighting goals together with some part-goals;
When i'm there i'll decide on how to progress, at the moment this is what i want to lift and i'll be happy as hell when i get there!
Herrk
Age: 26 || Height: 185 cm || Weight: 69 kg
Starting Date: 04/01/12
Weight goals -- 80-85 kg
Training goals --
Current || 1st Goal || 2nd Goal
Squat 37.5 kg || 70 kg || 100 kg
Bench 25 kg || 50 kg || 80 kg
Press 20 kg || 35 kg || 50 kg
Deadlift 40 kg || 80 kg || 120 kg
Pull-up 3x5 assisted || 3x5 || 3x15
Power Cleans - just want to do them
Misc: Get used to full-time working and still have time for training, SC, reading and girlfriend.
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Just got fitocracy invite lol, dunno where it came from, logged my yesterdays workout.
Guess ill be logging my stuff from now, joined to TL group aswell, sry i am lvl4....getting your average down -.-
Go me!
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Weakness runs through my veins.
Gonna take two days off. Maybe my cold, my hurt right wrist, my instable right shoulder or my pulled muscle in my right quadriceps will be better by then. I imagine the left half of my body (where nothing ever hurts) is probably screaming at my right half for being a pussy.
What a shitty way to start the new training year. Resting is hard -.-
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On January 05 2012 06:05 decafchicken wrote:Show nested quote +On January 05 2012 05:09 Catch wrote:
This thread is making me way too hungry for this cut. We need a recipe thread too.
Whoever posted that simplyshredded article rocks on page six rocks.
I'mma need y'all to hold me accountable. 10% bodyfat by June 21st. Started monday. I'll be posting pictures here on that day, but who couldn't use some extra motivation?
Lets do this. Take pics every 1-2 weeks or month or w/e so you can track your progress.
Alright. Every two weeks. After this first three 
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On January 05 2012 07:12 Herrk wrote:
Started Starting Strength training a little more than a month ago. Today i felt that i am getting closer to what i am capable of lifting at the moment. That felt great, now i'll be starting to make that progress!
I havn't put up any time specific goals, as i don't know what i am capable of in what time. I've decided for some weighting goals together with some part-goals;
When i'm there i'll decide on how to progress, at the moment this is what i want to lift and i'll be happy as hell when i get there!
Herrk
Age: 26 || Height: 185 cm || Weight: 69 kg
Starting Date: 04/01/12
Weight goals -- 80-85 kg
Training goals --
Current || 1st Goal || 2nd Goal
Squat 37.5 kg || 70 kg || 100 kg
Bench 25 kg || 50 kg || 80 kg
Press 20 kg || 35 kg || 50 kg
Deadlift 40 kg || 80 kg || 120 kg
Pull-up 3x5 assisted || 3x5 || 3x15
Power Cleans - just want to do them
Misc: Get used to full-time working and still have time for training, SC, reading and girlfriend.
gl! if you have any questions on PCs take vids and head over to the olympic weightlifting thread
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infinity21
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On January 05 2012 03:18 decafchicken wrote:Show nested quote +On January 04 2012 17:18 infinity21 wrote:
What do you eat decaf? Can you share some recipes?
And you're fucking ripped, you don't need to cut lol Poor mans diet from yesterday: 4 eggs, 8oz home made burgers, 12oz pulled pork, Milk + protein shake Other things i typically add: bacon, tuna, cheese, rice, sweet potatoes, potatoes, chicken, ice cream (in post WO shake), and tortillas (bad decaf) Recipes: decafs bowl of awesome: Start cooking beef + bacon in pan. When theirs grease in the pan, shred potato into it to make hashbrowns. Add butter as needed for the hashbrowns as they soak up the grease. Add 4 eggs. Cook till done. Eat with rice, hot sauce, cheese, or in a tortilla, etc. Feeds 1 very hungry man or 2 normal people. ez pulled pork: 5-6 lbs of pork loin (this shit goes for like 1.8$/pound here). Add any soda/beer till the pork is covered. Cook on low for 10-12 hours. Drain and then pull apart the pork with forks. Add barbeque sauce and cook for another 1-2 hrs. Enjoy. And my go-to move is just cooking up some beef or chicken and adding eggs and rice. Flavor with hot sauce/bbq sauce. Posted some at the end of last thread Meh, used to be fucking ripped. Now, not so much: + Show Spoiler +Was more ripped this time last year. God damn beer. Could probably stand to lose 5 lbs of fat. Oh well, i don't have much need for dem aesthetics, i've got a gf already and i mostly just want to run people over Pics from this time last year: + Show Spoiler ++ Show Spoiler +Sorry these are all fucking huge, my phone takes like 8mp pics. Hopefully you have your settings to automatically resize them!
Will give that a try, thanks decaf
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Snatched 2x60,80,90,100 and then 5 singles at 110kg without missing (missed 6th and stopped there). wheee hurray for consitency. Although to be fair one of those snatches was very not legit...left side went forward, pressed it out, brought it back, then stood up. Impressive, but bad lol. Clean and jerked up to 130 doing a lot of clean work around 110 cause i'm not staying close enough to the bar on the catch. Finished up with back squat singles, managed to get 3 at 175kg.
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Woot got 285lbx5 deadlift today but had to switch to mixed grip after 1st rep. Holy shit I had no idea how much stronger it made my grip :o My technique was actually more off today because of the increased grip. I think I was used to the bar slipping a bit when it was above my knees. Mixed grip feels so much stronger, I think I'll jump to 295x5 next time
Was doing some rack deadlifts (more like 3cm dl) for grip training until my hand started bleeding. Feels good man.
Press is still weak as fuck but I'm sure it will get better.
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Since my mobility has been lacking a little I've decided (mostly out of curiosity and fun) to do all of the Mobility WODs.
One / day for as long as they last.
Also managed to get my GF on the challenge aswell, which is nice since severely lacks mobility.
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I sense alterior motives sjarl 
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lol I see what you did there =P
oh and screw taking three weeks break. DOMS in my legs are DESTROYING me. walking like an old grandma.
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i'm having a hard time trying to get in a routine for working out/eating. finding time to work out can be difficult sometimes (work like 11-12 hours a day, and i'm trying to get 8 hours of sleep a night). eating right is difficult too (i have almost 0 control over what i eat, and no access to a kitchen, not even a working fridge. i only got a microwave).
ordered eshlow's book, hopefully this will help me out a lot as i don't really have access to any weights besides a few kettelbells t.t
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Fuck, it's July 5th, and I slacking on my bodyweight exercises. I did legs yesterday:
6x Rear Lunge, 6 second pause at bottom,
superset 6x Toyota's
20 Bodyweight Squat, ass to grass
6x Front Lunge, 6 second pause at bottom,
superset 6x Side Lunges
20 Bodyweight Squat, ass to grass
20/3 Bodyweight Calf Raise
100 total double unders.
Not feeling too good today. My stomach was killing me, and I had a killer headache. Now I can't even sleep. I know rest is essential, but I feel like a lazy P.O.S. everyday I don't do some form of exercise, so I might be hitting the floor right now.
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On January 05 2012 15:10 Jitsu wrote:
Fuck, it's July 5th, and I slacking on my bodyweight exercises. I did legs yesterday:
6x Rear Lunge, 6 second pause at bottom,
superset 6x Toyota's
20 Bodyweight Squat, ass to grass
6x Front Lunge, 6 second pause at bottom,
superset 6x Side Lunges
20 Bodyweight Squat, ass to grass
20/3 Bodyweight Calf Raise
100 total double unders.
Not feeling too good today. My stomach was killing me, and I had a killer headache. Now I can't even sleep. I know rest is essential, but I feel like a lazy P.O.S. everyday I don't do some form of exercise, so I might be hitting the floor right now.
Replace random lunges and shit with heavy ATG squats. WTF are front/rear lunges doing that ATG squats won't??
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God damn today's newspaper had an article about nuts and said nothing about their omega3:omega6 ratios. It praised them for having "good" soft fats and said to avoid coconuts as "90% of their fat is hard saturated fat which is to be avoided." T_T
Eshlow's book arrived a while ago, and as a result all my previous training will be reset, and I'll switch to full rom concentrics. Also I'll have to pay more attention to form as I noticed my l-sit sucks because my hips go way too far back. Unfortunately I won't be able to start training fully any time soon, so in the mean time I'll work on mobility and do some testing/maintaining with tuck l-sit, pppushups, pistols etc. On the positive side: 1) I placed my order for vit d and fishoil, 2) My wrists are a LOT better than they were at the start of the summer, 3) I now know more about training and nutrition.
Thank you TL&HF, and eshlow especially, for 2011! Happy 2012!
And Necosarius, on what level are you with planche atm? I don't mean to underestimate you, but looking at your weight that goal seems pretty damn hard. I hope you'll make it though!
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Hey guys!! Damn long time since I've popped in here. To be perfectly honest I haven't been lifting since July for a number of reasons; most of them due to bad habits  Anyway, glad to see everyone still going strong! I figure around New Year's the new thread gets going but I had no idea TLHF is its own forum now!! Great job everyone!
So here's my New Year's post I guess. My resolution (besides physical fitness blah blah) will be to stay active in this great community.
I did a lot of traveling over the summer for work as well as play. Early fall was filled with looking for steadier work and hoping I got a lead on a firefighter job. Sometime in October I got a call from my uncle in Pennsylvania asking if I could lend him a hand in running his hockey business.
So I've been living in PA since October and have been EXTREMELY busy. My time has been almost 100% consumed by hockey related matters. Work, play, conversations, TV, everything hockey. It's been awesome, I have the best job in the world hands down. But man I haven't actually gone to a gym in forever and it's killing me! My job still requires a lot of traveling and the schedule is brutal. Any spare moment I get I need to fill with looking for colleges out here to finish up my degree.
On the plus side, I have been given plenty of opportunities for "exercise" at least. Right now I play hockey a minimum of two days a week, and soon I will be getting even more ice time. I did actually manage to find a gym a few weeks ago and squatted a few times and it felt great. But I haven't been able to get there with any consistency and I fear that this small gym will be crowded as hell due to the New Year's rush. My uncle seems excited though. He wants me to help him get my cousin motivated into lifting so he can better train for hockey.
So that's a synopsis of the last half of my 2011 year. Now for the physical New Year's resolution. Ideally I would love to get back on SS but with the amount of hockey I'm currently playing I doubt that squatting 3 times a week on top of that would be wise. Maybe it'd be different if I wasn't starting lifting in the middle of me playing a lot of hockey for the season, but that's the situation I'm in. I need your guys help. Will doing the SS core lifts only twice a week get me anywhere? Is there a hybrid program with slightly less leg volume? I hate asking that cus squats are the best best BEST thing for hockey but I feel I have to ease myself back into it. It's hard to hit the ground running when you have to skate later on that same day. I hated doing that shit when I was in high school and I aint no spring chicken anymore.
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Ask martin st. louis last time he took off a squat session cause of hockey. Granted, he gets paid to be an athlete. But still. Guy has the legs of a god and still plays ~90 hockey games a year. You don't have to jump into a workout like his but don't bitch out on your squats cause you 'have to skate later that day'. I used to do a sprint program with some semi-pro hockey players in the off season and they would do warm ups, agilities, sprints, lifts with me AND THEN up-hill skating (some cool skate/treadmill machine they had) 3x a week PLUS their hockey practice. I spend all rugby season in fucking pain because i squat/oly lift while doing rugby practice. Why? Cause it gives you an advantage. Now theirs no fucking reason to do any of this extra shit if you're a beginner but if you're a seasoned athlete/lifter then at a certain point you need to push it. I have no idea where you are at in your training but if the situation dictates then you don't HAVE to follow the "SS -> other program" heirarchy even if it is usually ideal, do what you can and do what you have to.
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On January 05 2012 17:25 MajinMojo wrote:Hey guys!! Damn long time since I've popped in here. To be perfectly honest I haven't been lifting since July for a number of reasons; most of them due to bad habits Anyway, glad to see everyone still going strong! I figure around New Year's the new thread gets going but I had no idea TLHF is its own forum now!! Great job everyone! So here's my New Year's post I guess. My resolution (besides physical fitness blah blah) will be to stay active in this great community. I did a lot of traveling over the summer for work as well as play. Early fall was filled with looking for steadier work and hoping I got a lead on a firefighter job. Sometime in October I got a call from my uncle in Pennsylvania asking if I could lend him a hand in running his hockey business. So I've been living in PA since October and have been EXTREMELY busy. My time has been almost 100% consumed by hockey related matters. Work, play, conversations, TV, everything hockey. It's been awesome, I have the best job in the world hands down. But man I haven't actually gone to a gym in forever and it's killing me! My job still requires a lot of traveling and the schedule is brutal. Any spare moment I get I need to fill with looking for colleges out here to finish up my degree. On the plus side, I have been given plenty of opportunities for "exercise" at least. Right now I play hockey a minimum of two days a week, and soon I will be getting even more ice time. I did actually manage to find a gym a few weeks ago and squatted a few times and it felt great. But I haven't been able to get there with any consistency and I fear that this small gym will be crowded as hell due to the New Year's rush. My uncle seems excited though. He wants me to help him get my cousin motivated into lifting so he can better train for hockey. So that's a synopsis of the last half of my 2011 year. Now for the physical New Year's resolution. Ideally I would love to get back on SS but with the amount of hockey I'm currently playing I doubt that squatting 3 times a week on top of that would be wise. Maybe it'd be different if I wasn't starting lifting in the middle of me playing a lot of hockey for the season, but that's the situation I'm in. I need your guys help. Will doing the SS core lifts only twice a week get me anywhere? Is there a hybrid program with slightly less leg volume? I hate asking that cus squats are the best best BEST thing for hockey but I feel I have to ease myself back into it. It's hard to hit the ground running when you have to skate later on that same day. I hated doing that shit when I was in high school and I aint no spring chicken anymore.
welcome back!
I agree with decaf: no reason not to squat even if you play hockey. the human body is amazing at adapting to stress, and it will adapt to a higher training regime if you let it. maybe start out easy with 2-3 easy squat sessions and see if you survive it. after that you can continuously make your workouts harder until you maybe even reach full SS workouts! although dont expect to progress like on SS if you play hockey a lot.
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Yeah, kinda sounds like I'm bitching out. But like I said ideally I would love to just do SS straight 3 days a week on top of hockey. But I will probably have to ease myself into it as you guys say. I guess I'll just expect to be dead for about two weeks.
Two weeks ago I bumped into John LeClair a former NHLer who was about to skate in the Winter Classic alumni game for the Flyers. He's still a tank of a human being.
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On January 05 2012 12:31 decafchicken wrote:I sense alterior motives sjarl
lol obviously
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