It's April - how are your fitness resolutions coming along?

[Warik]

Well Q1 2007 is over. Have you all been keeping your fitness resolutions or did you give up months ago? Tell your story. Here's mine:

Started my lifting program weighing 178lbs at 11.3% bodyfat. My goal was to reach 195lbs at 10% bodyfat. I also wanted to increase my strength big time. Just finished 11 weeks of training yesterday (skipped a week due to all-over body pain/soreness after my first snowboarding trip ever). Here are my results:

Weight: 190lbs (+12 lbs)
Bodyfat %: 11.3% (+0%!)
Lean Weight: 168.53lbs (+10.64lbs)
Fat weight: 21.47lbs (+1.36lbs)

Squat: 350 for 5 reps (+75lbs)
Bench: 240 for 5 reps (+55lbs)
Deadlift: 310 for 5 reps (+50lbs)
Military Press: 145 for 5 reps (+30lbs)
Barbell Row: 200 for 5 reps (+45lbs)

Very happy with my results overall except now my pants barely fit and I'll have to buy new ones. Planning to put on another 5lbs and then start doing cardio (probably H.I.I.T.) to trim down to 10%. I'm hoping to get there by summer time.

How'd everybody else do?

[kerowo]

Since Christmas I'm down 20 lbs and went from riding my bike on the trainer for 45 minutes to doing 22 miles on the bike paths at close to 15 miles an hour. I'm about 2-3 weeks ahead of my goal for June.

[kyleb]

Mods, can you move this to the playground? Warik PM'd me and asked me.

[Snupoker]

Started at 203 and about 20% body fat. (I'm 5'10)

Down to 185 and ran a half marathon in February.

Looking to get to 170 by middle of June.

[theblackkeys]

Is that normal to have squat numbers higher than deadlifts?

What kind of squats do you do? Ass to grass? Parallel?

[edfurlong]

I tried to go to the gym tonight for the first time in a really long time, but they were closed.

24 hour fitness my fat ass.

[Thremp]

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Is that normal to have squat numbers higher than deadlifts?

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No, its not normal.

[IronFly]

I was on pace for my goals, but then I tore my ACL a month ago. I haven't worked out or had the heart to weigh myself since then. <sigh>

[DeMaci]

Having a higher squat than deadlift is not normal at all.

[Warik]

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Is that normal to have squat numbers higher than deadlifts?

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No, it is not; however, I have/had a bulging lumbar disc and have been very cautious about increasing my deadlift weight. I injured it in October of 2005 and didn't lift for 3 months. Before that I was squatting 305 for 6 reps and deadlifting 365 for 4. When I started lifting again in January of 2006 my deadlift was a massive 30 (yes, thirty) pounds. I built it up to 260lbs over the course of last year, then brought it from 260lbs to 310lbs on the Bill Starr Intermediate 5x5 program.

Although a strong lower back is important for heavy squats and plays a huge role, the role is not as huge as for heavy deadlifts. That, in addition to the fact that my legs are disproportionately huge in comparison to the rest of my body is why I squat more than I deadlift.

My deadlift will eventually catch up. Or not. I'm not particularly concerned with any number other than the one on the scale.

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What kind of squats do you do? Ass to grass? Parallel?

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It's not a squat unless my hamstrings touch my calves.