Writing this up quite late, starting to slack a bit but can still remember my workout.
Workout #7 – Evening workout
Warm up
3×5 body weight squats, 1×5 20kg squat, squat stretches, shoulder dislocations, supermans.
Work set
32.5kg 3×5 squat
25kg 3×5 bench
52.5kg 1×5 deadlift
Squat strecthes in the warm up are getting easier and I know don’t have to have my [...]

Workout #5 – Evening workout
5×5 bodyweight squats, 3×10 second squat stretches, 3×10 shoulder dislocations – still widest grip, 5×10 second supermans.
Work set
27.5kg 3×5 squat
22.5kg 3×5 bench
47.5kg 1×5 deadlift
Squats seem good and getting the bar on my back easier since I sort of fixed the wrist problem.  I think I slipped up a bit and was [...]

On to week 2 and starting to get more used to the weights and looking forward to lifting more.  I decided that I am going to do Rippetoe’s Starting Strength program instead of my originally intended Stronglifts 5×5.  I think the starting strength program seems more simple and efficient and is more targeted at what [...]

Well on Thursday 23 July 2009 I decided to do my first ever weight training workout with a barbell.  This is my first ever post on this blog but I won’t go into detail about myself in this post and my reasons for training as i’ll save that for an about page. In summary, i’m [...]