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Your motivational song - "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" - Drowning Pool - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HORkT4a2MhQ

You're still an animal dbmata! It doesn't matter how much weight, it's the intensity of the fight within. Just be the best you, you can be. There's always someone lifting more and, tomorrow, they may lift no more. I am just glad to be able to lift, today. Civilize the mind ... Savage the body!

Oh, it was painful coming back! I put on 225 for the bench and rep 5 almost killed me. A week later, I got a killer exertion headache and thought I was stroking out. Then, every time I lifted, the weights felt lighter and lighter, so I just always did what I thought I could do around 10 reps. When I squatted for the first…

Those are strong numbers. I always look in awe at those with strong legs and wished I could put in those numbers. Bench is my strongest lift, which is funny to think I can push more off my chest than with my legs. Ugghh.

Repping >1000 Currently (into week 7 after 10 years off): Bench (315x8) so maybe 400? Squat (335x10) so maybe 425? Deadlift (350x10) so maybe 450? Best competition stats when I weighed 190: Max Bench: 500 Max Squat: 405 (squats were never really strong) Max Deadlift: 450 1355 I wonder if I actually worked on the deadlift…

Isn't cool?! And you'll still run and finish and be left wondering what all the fuss was about the night before.

... through exercise.

Awesome job! You obviously have some will power, and you do not achieve anything being content. Great job!

I would enter him in a fun run. My 15 year old son really enjoyed that.

There's nothing wrong with your stomach.

Awesome.

We all have that feeling at times. I had it last week bad. Well, this week is way better. So enjoy the roller coaster. The lows make the highs a little sweeter.

Peanut butter cookies.

If you choose not to push yourself (and your goal is just contentment), then Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.

Wrong goal - IMHO. If your goal is a specific lifestyle change, it is a permenant change. It becomes part of your everyday identity.

Monday - upper body Tuesday - lower body Wednesday - upper body Thursday - lower body

Eating at a deficit will sure hinder strength gains (I learned this first hand). I am now eating 200 more than my basal metabolic rate, and I am creating a calorie deficit through exercise only. This seems to be working best for me, right now. Plus, I rest on the 3rd day and just do 40 minutes of cardio. My cardio is just…

I look forward to reading how you do (if I catch your post); maybe PM me when you get the results. I rarely work in the 5 rep range and prefer the 10-12 reps; it just takes so much toll on my joints to use those lower reps. I read that if you try to add 5 lbs per week to your lifts, that might work to allow your tendons…

I would rest. Working out puts so much stress on the immune system. You won't lose much getting better; then, you can come back and enjoy it.

Honestly, the thought of 4 plates makes me really nervous. I think I will stick with 3 plates for a while and build up the reps. I have always enjoyed benching and would like to still do it in my 50s and beyond.

Thank you. No, I'm just getting back into lifting, again. Back in college I had a 500 lbs max. 6 weeks ago, I could only do 225x5, so it's coming back pretty quick. Since I am in my 40s, I only have a heavy lift day once a week and try not to over do it. I am thinking of just keeping it at 315 and seeing how many reps I…

Last night, 315x8 and 225x15, but I wasn't trying to rep out on 225. I may have had 1-2 in the tank. Not 20 though - I don't think.

Infidelity knows no bounds.

I like my food to burn calories before I eat them.

Light cardio for 40 min.

I've been afraid. I've been exhausted. I've wanted to quit more times than I remember. I just never did.