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8/20/07: 30 min stationary bike

Workout A:

I have started to get some lower back pain, and have previously injured my lower back and am generally pretty injury prone so I'm not going to take any chances. Going to scale back on the weight and really make sure that I am confident in my form every time I increase the weight before continuing. It's easy to let my ego get in the way and keep on adding weight every workout but it's not worth an injury. Anyway:

Squat:

1x5 @ 45
1x5 @ 95
1x3 @ 135

3x5 @ 155

I feel like my weight is coming forward off of my heels as I add weight, gonna drop down to 135 or 145 on Wednesday and focus on keeping my weight back

Bench:

1x5 @ 45
1x5 @ 95
1x3 @ 105

2x5, 1x4 @ 120

Deadlift:

1x5 @ 95
1x5 @ 135
1x5 @ 155

1x5 @ 165

Talked a bit about my form issues on the deadlift earlier, but watching the vid shemp posted has really helped, and I'm feeling good about my form now. Will look to steadily increase the weight on these

[PoppinFresh]

So my back got worse after Monday's workout, and I decided no more squats/deadlifts/pendlay rows until it was feeling better. I took Wednesday off and thought I might be good to go yesterday(silly me), but that didn't work out. Did some upper-body work and hopefully I'll be able to get back to doing everything on Monday.

8/24/07:

Bench Press:

1x5 @ 45
1x5 @ 95
1x3 @ 115

1x5 @ 125, 2x4 @ 125

Military Press:

1x5 @ 45
1x2 @ 65

2x5 @ 70, 1x4 @ 70

Pullups:

3x3x2 @ bodyweight. Then did 3 negatives

Dips:

Tried a set of these but I'm too weak to do full reps

Tricep pressdowns:

3x10 @ 50

Barbell curls:

3x9 @ 45

[PoppinFresh]

8/27/07:

Back feeling better again (pls pls stay this way!!), so back to regular workouts

Workout B:

Squats:

1x5 @ 95
1x5 @ 135

3x5 @ 155

Form is feeling better, but weight is still moving forward a bit on a couple of the reps. I will probably keep the weight here again on Wed. and try and bump it up if everything goes well on Fri

Military Press:

1x5 @ 45
1x3 @ 65

3x5 @ 70

Pendlay Rows:

1x5 @ 45
1x5 @ 65

3x5 @ 85

Pullups:

3x3 @ bodyweight
3 negatives

ROM is getting a bit better on these

Also, for the first time in as long as I can remember I was able to bend over and touch my toes during my stretching today. Not an accomplishment for a normal person, but it's good progress from where I started

[PoppinFresh]

8/29/07:

Workout A:

Squats:

1x5 @ 45
1x5 @ 95
1x3 @ 135

3x5 @ 155

Feeling confident in these again, weight goes up on Friday

Bench:

1x7 @ 45
1x5 @ 95
1x3 @ 115

1x5, 2x4 @ 125

Bah, sucks not to have made any progress on these, I think I will be able to do 3x5 on Monday though

Deadlift:

1x5 @ 95
1x5 @ 135
1x3 @ 155

1x5 @ 175

Tempted to go higher, but I'm going to take it slowly. Most likely will hit 185 on Monday

Also made a decision today that I am officially cutting. I haven't been weighing myself recently, but I think I'm in the 167-170 range (started at 167). Not a lot of weight for my height, but I still am fairly flabby. Reasons for cutting first instead of bulking:

1) over the next 3 months I will be spending 3 weeks between Borgata and Foxwoods, and another 2-3 weeks in India, with no access to a barbell most likely.

2) Keeping my bf% down will be good for my endurance goals as well as easier on my joints

3) Still getting comfortable with my form, I will probably be able to push myself harder in the future and it would seem to be better to bulk then

So, plan is a 3 month cut where I drop ~10 lbs. I'm a little worried about how thin I'm going to look after this, but I'll live with it. Any feedback appreciated

[PoppinFresh]

8/31/07:

Workout B:

Squat:

1x5 @ 45
1x5 @ 95
1x3 @ 135

3x5 @ 160

Military Press:

1x5 @ 45
1x3 @ 65

1x5, 2x4 @ 75

Pendlay Rows:

1x5 @ 45
1x5 @ 65
1x3 @ 85

3x5 @ 95

Pullups:

3x3x2 @ bodyweight
2 negatives

Didn't do too well on these today, thinking it's probably because I upped the weight on my rows

Decline sit-ups:

3x10 @ bodyweight

Tricep Pressdowns:

3x12 @ 50

Barbell Curls:

3x10 @ 45

Also, cutting sucks, it doesn't seem to hard to get a few hundred calorie deficit over what I was doing before but I'm constantly hungry and it just feels so wrong not to feed my hungry muscles. I'm probably just going to try and stay really active and make sure to eat super-clean so I don't have to cut back on quantity of food

[PoppinFresh]

Bought and used this blender for the first time today: http://www.everythingkitchens.com/vitamix-vitaprep.html

OH. MY. GOD. I never thought I would say this about a blender, but this thing is so incredible I would describe it as life-changing. If you make a lot of your own shakes and aren't completely happy with your blender I would definitely recommend one

[thirddan]

holy [censored] dude...thats an expensive blender...

[PoppinFresh]

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Seriously worth it if you can afford it/will use it a lot though

[Big Poppa Smurf]

WTF 375 FOR A BLENDER?