Old Man Strong

Cause it's FRIDAY!

And I hit a peanut butter in my squat today!

Woohoo!

Monday 11/12/2018

Holiday Monday so the gym was packed. Also Monday is international chest day so there was a long line up for the two bench press benches that my gym has. Squats went well, and I worked up to 3 sets of 5 at 205lbs. It felt a lot easier than Friday.

I waited for about 20 minutes to get a bench or at least work in with someone. No luck as there were already multiple groups working on the benches. I just gave up and hit the Hammer Smith machine. Not what was programmed for the day, but I did my best.

Next was deadlift and I did hit a set of 5 at 265lbs. I'm happy with my squat and deadlift progress so far. Just need to get my bench up!

Wednesday 11/14/2018

Hit 3 sets of 5 at 205lbs again this day. It felt even easier do feel pretty good that I can move the weight up to 210lbs next week.

Today was press day. My press sucks. But I'm working on it. I'll just leave it at that.

Also, I giant settled my press, lat pulldown and back extensions. I was running late and just wanted to get the reps in before I had to get back to work.

Friday 11/16/2018

Definitely not feeling it today

But I powered through and PR'd my squat. Here are the details:

Squat: 45#10 95#5 115#5 135#5 155#3 175#3 185#3 205#5x3 (PR)

Bench Press 45#15 95#5 115#5 135#5 145#5x3

Barbell Rows 60#10 100#5x2 120#5x3

(notations above are Lbs#RepsxSets)

I was feeling pretty wasted by the time I got to bench press, so I wimped out and backed off 10lbs from what I was programmed to do. I'll recover and get the weight back up next time I hit bench press.

I've been hitting deadlifts pretty hard lately, so wanted to throw in some heavy rows to switch things up. Normally, in the Starting Strength linear progression program, I would be doing power cleans here. But since I can't do power cleans I substituted heavy BB rows instead.

TLDR

Linear Progression continues.

Happy that I PR'd my squat.