blackcoffeeandcherrypie wrote: »

No, no app for me. I don't have that sort of phone.

With the squats, if the weight goes up twice as fast as the other lifts, does that mean you end up with a much heavier squat weight compared to the other lifts?

To a degree since you squat every time while the others are every other time, plus upper body tends to be hard to increase on for many of us, in particular the overhead press. Deadlift also can move up at a quick pace in the beginning because the recommendation is 10 increase instead of 5. However, at certain points you may choose to stay at a weight for a couple of sessions, or not get all of the reps and have to do a de-load.

But my squat is definitely higher than many of my lifts. Benching 95 is difficult while on the other hand, I didn't worry I'd fail at the 150 squat. Deadlift is the only main lift for me that is heavier than squats. No app for me either, I just use a notebook to keep track of what I lifted.

Welcome, @blackcoffeeandcherrypie
@DawnEmbers I am a bit jealous of your body weight squats. I have been lifting for a long time and was close, but haven't been able to match my body weight yet. That's my goal before the end of the year.

Last night I did:
Squat 5x50,60,70,85,95 Easy enough but I'm worried my hips are going up too fast. I really struggle with fixing that.
Bench 5x45,55,65,75,85
Row 4x5x65; 5x75
Glute bridge 3x10x145 I'm excited to do those at just over bodyweight next week.

Hey there. I haven't been on here in, like, forever. What's up canadianlbs?

But in the past two months I have rebooted SL 5 x5. Here's where I'm at today:

Squats Warmups then 5x5 at 130. The wall is coming. Hoping I can get to 150 before I stall out.
OHP warmups then 5 x 5 at 80 lbs. This IS the wall. I touch the wall. I embrace the wall. I finished but it was UGLY. Repeat.
DL Warmup then 1x5 @ 170. I need to work on my grip strength. The legs and back are willing, but the hands are weak and sad.

Managed workout B despite legs that were oh-so-sore.

It's difficult going up in the recommended increments as we're sort of stuck using fixed weight bars and they only go up in 5kg increments. There is one Olympic Bar but it's in very high demand. So I basically stuck to my original weight as I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do the squats anyway.

Squats - 10kg
Overhead Press - 10kg
Deadlift - 10kg.

The deadlift was a lot easier than I expected. No doubt it will get a lot harder, very quickly!

I have been having a bad flare of some inflammation I have in my chest and hands so I wasn't feeling great today and almost skipped my workout but I remembered that usually when I skip a workout my body ends up feeling worse so I just kept it short tonight.

Squat 5x50,60,70,70
OHP 5x45,45,55,60
Deadlift 5x95,115,130,150
I was not happy with my deadlifts after watching my video of my last set so I actually went back and videoed myself doing another rep and when I saw that looked good I did three more. I think that it may help me to stand up and reset after each rep so I am going to try that next week. I am very grateful that I lift at home and can go back and mess with things to work on my form whenever I feel like.
Happy lifting, all!!

meglo91 wrote: »

Hey there. I haven't been on here in, like, forever. What's up canadianlbs?

hey!! what's up is i suck at everything except form creep and i'm on a reboot as well. but! i have located a trainer who may be sliced bread's bigger and better brother, so just wait.

This IS the wall. I touch the wall. I embrace the wall.

heh. i pictured you in a black body suit and white mime gloves, doing . . . well you know.

Workout B:

Squat: 80lbs
OHP: 40lbs (However, I did a few reps with 45lbs [FINALLY ABLE TO], but I could tell I wouldn't be able to another set, so went back down to 40lbs, I'm confident I'll be able to do 45lbs next time.)
DL: 85lbs

Added oblique twists with 10lbs medicine ball 3x20 and 15lbs medicine ball sit-up throws 3x15.

Although I almost considered going back to bed this morning, I managed to go to the park and do my long jog. Just over 4 miles.

I'm totally the accident prone type of person. Somehow I messed up my knee while I slept. I decided I'll just do upperbody volume today as squatting bugs my knee. I got inspired with Alan Thrall's video on plateau on 5x5 that I wanted to try it out his program suggestions. Turns out, volume is hard! I was trying for 50 reps (with breaks) but that was just too crazy and 20 without removing the weight was also killer so there was a compromise.

OHP 2x5 45lbs. 1x20 65lbs. OMG these were killer! I banged out 12 with ease, had to rack it to rechalk as I was a sweaty mess, and then painfully did the rest.

Bench 2x5 45lbs. 1x20 80lbs. I probably could of gone 85 or 90lbs but I had no spot so I didn't want to risk it.

Dumbbell Rows 1x20 35lbs each arm. At this point I couldn't feel my arms so these weren't an issue. I found some kettlebells so I used those. Much better than barbell rows as this was no stress on my back or knees. I wish heavy dumbbells were cheaper to own.

Shrugs 3x10 75lbs. For fun. Now I got a killer pump in my traps for a Friday night.

Hey, look, this gal can barbell squat again! Sorta...

35x10
35x10
I was like wtf this is easy so switched the bar with the only other one I could grab, which may or may not have been another 35 in retrospect (it was fatter and sat worse/better on my back? Iunno) So the following weights might be -10
45x10 (including 5 with a looong pause at the bottom)
75x12
95x3x12
95x11
75x20 because reasons

Not happy with my form on these. Given I can,t tighten up my upper back at will, so even the chest up cue is useless, but I was bending over a LOT no matter how hard I tried to sit back/stay upright...

This was accompanied with lots of shoulder rehab/mobility work (as it turns out, too, stabilizing while I do the prescribed exercises on the left side is more painful than doing them with my hurt shoulder. Go figure...

Short story is I spent an hour in there doing just that. Rest of the rant is in the rehab thread.