by Scott on 10 March, 2010
I managed to get my 2nd workout in after restarting again on Sunday and it does feel good to be back and committed to this. Sometimes it’s really hard to fit the workout in the evening because of so many distractions, by the time you get round it’s late and you then lose the motivation.
Squat
67.5kg 5×3
Press
23kg 5×3
Squat was good but since starting again I really need to check my depth because on a couple of reps I went deeper than other ones which made me think that the rest must have been too high. Will try and get the video camera back out to check as well as looking for other form issues.
I really hate the press because I just find it so difficult to get right. I just cannt get into the habbit of keeping the bar close to my face and throwing forward when it gets just past my head. Then I really struggle to fully stretch out at the top, mainly because of flexibiliy issues.
Supposed to start adding chins/pull ups to this routine but there is a ladder rack right in front of the bars that I need to take down but can’t be bothered.
by Scott on 8 March, 2010
I know my last update was way back in October but I have not completely given up with the strength training. I know I didn’t have any regular readers but would like to change that and at least keep this updated mainly for my own benefit because since I stopped updating the blog, my motivation to work out really dropped which shows the importance of a training log.
So the winter hit the UK and getting the motivation to go in to a zero degree garage when you’ve started to stall on all your lifts is extremely tough and I was weak and took the easy road.I started skipping a few workouts and/or just putting a half hearted effort into the lifts.
My last workout of 2009 was on 16 December and I had hit 85KG on the squat but with a fail on the last set. Press was 27.5kg which I just could not break. I failed 45kg on the bench and hit the couldn’t get it off the ground for deadlift at 85kg. I had missed quite a few deadlifts basically because I was a pussy so I should have been much higher than that.
So then I went on holiday for 2 weeks over Christmas and the Uk suffered one of the worst winters in history with weeks below freezing. Obviously I was planning on getting straight back into training but the weather was crazy and from there 2 weeks break turned into 12 weeks.
I tried a workout on 14th February but yet again I turned into a pussy when I could not cope with the soreness and skipped many more workouts until today.
So i’m turning over a new leaf, getting serious again and have set myself a 10 week plan before I go to America for 4 weeks on 24th May.
Today’s workout
Squat
65kg 5×3
Bench
30kg 5×3
Deadlift
70kg 5×1
The workout was good and felt my form was overall decent. My joins sounded a bit cranky squatting but they soon went away after the warm up. Need to check my deadlift form on video as felt I might have cheated a bit and did not get a full chest raise.
So those are my lifts at the moment which were all doable but not super easy so it was a good workout. My goal is to get to 100kg squat and my body weight up to 75kg/165lbs maybe higher depending on my body fat %.
I’ve bought a body fat caliper so i’ll be tracking that from now on. My diet has always been the weakest part and since stopping from working out, my milk intake has dropped slightly. I’m cheating and not getting up for breakfast, instead eating a yoghurt at work instead of it being my evening snack. And of course with not working I havn’t been eating double cheeseburgers and not many tuna sandwiches.
