AH909s Stronglifts 5x5 journal

[DanZy]

Um yeah mate you do have to lift big to get big...within reason of course

 

[AH909]

Um yeah mate you do have to lift big to get big...within reason of course

What I meant is I used to always try to do as much weight as I could even if that meant I only could only get two or three reps. I would also try to lift for like 2 hours a day 5 days a week. Both of those will do nothing but overwork your muscles and they wont grow.

 

[AH909]

Week 4, Workout 2, A day

Squat - 165

Bench - 110

Rows - 90

 

[AH909]

Week 4, Workout 3, B day

Squat - 170

Press - 80

Deads - 185

 

[AH909]

Week 5, Workout 1, A day

Squat - 175

Bench - 115

Rows - 95

 

[JohnChops]

Interesting. Your doing just 3 hard compound exercises per day 5x5. How's your progress I'm curious , body composition wise

 

[AH909]

Week 5, Workout 2, B day

Squat - 180

Press - 85

Dead - 195

Ive gained like 5 pounds or so since I started but im not sure how much of it is fat or muscle cause I started eating like a plow. Im starting to get in the higher weights now so I should start seeing more progress.

 

[AH909]

Week 5, Workout 2, A day

Squat - 185

Bench - 120

Rows - 100

 

[AH909]

Week 6, Workout 1, B day

Squat - 190

Overhead - 90

Dead - 205

 

[apocolipto]

Your well on your way dude

 

[AH909]

Week 6, Workout 2, A day

Squat - 195

Bench - 125 (accidentally did 115)

Rows - 105

I forget to put the extra fives on the end of the bar when I was benching so i accidentally did 115 instead of 125. I do 125 my next bench day.

 

[AH909]

Week 6, Workout 3, B day

Squat - 200

Overhead - 95

Dead - 215

Pull ups - 3 x max

Gonna start adding pull ups to my workout because when football gets done in a couple weeks im gonna start working out with my recruiter for the Marines. I can do 12 when I do palms facing in but i could only do like 5 or 6 wide grip and palms facing out. My upper body is probably my weakest spot. I also started using a mixed grip on deads instead of regular.

 

[AH909]

Week 7, Workout 1, A day

Squat - 205

Bench - 125

Rows - 110

 

[AH909]

I've come down with a pretty bad cold these last couple of days so I'm gonna get some rest instead of working out. Hopefully will get back in it on Friday.

 

[Quiksilver]

good stuff keep it up

 

[AH909]

Didnt go yesterday because I was still feeling a little groggy from my cold. Feeling better today tho and will get back going on monday.

 

[AH909]

Week 8, Workout 1, B day

Squat - 210

Press - 100

Dead - 225

Pull Ups

Felt good to get back in there after being sick last week. Squats were a b*tch because i went right after school and my legs were still sore from my swimming class where we did a lot of kicking exercises.

 

[AH909]

Havent been on in a while so im updating two days

Week 8, Workout 2, A day

Squat - 215

Bench - 130

Rows - 115


Week 8, Workout 3, A day

Squat - 215

Press - 105

Dead- 235

 

[Krueg]

Nice job on progression! Keep up the hard work.

 

[AH909]

Took two weeks off to help my body get used to the workouts I do with my recruiter for the Marines. Maxed out last night and i got 185x2 on bench and 225x8 on squat. Felt good knowing my weights have been going up. Im gonna start up again tommorow except im gonna do 3x5 on squat as the program recommends. Ill still do 5x5 on everything else and ill lower the weights and work back up.