Djeclipse's Intermediate 5x5 take 2.

[djeclipse]

6 weeks on taking pounds off of yourself and putting them on to the lifts
Great progress man! I'm sure you'll gain muscle very quickly when bulking after the strength gains on your cutting process.

I still have a lot of fat to loose, but ya, I am looking forward to being able to put some of it back on once I reach my cutting goals.

 

[Cynical Simian]

250 x 1.... kind of a PR I guess

"Kind of"...what the hell are you talking about? Congrats!

Not sure what to say on the back other than the decidedly unhelpful "you're probably the best judge since you know how it feels."

Maybe you should make a t-shirt pimping EF/the 5x5 to save yourself the trouble of talking to people about it.

 

[anotherbutters]

A t-shirt saying "squat, eat, sleep, repeat" in big letters running down the back would be cool

 

[djeclipse]

"Kind of"...what the hell are you talking about? Congrats!

Thanks, it is a nice round number

Not sure what to say on the back other than the decidedly unhelpful "you're probably the best judge since you know how it feels."

I'm not sure what to do either, it's more of a nagging pain that just won't go away. I will take the rest of the week off and hope I can get back into it by monday.

Maybe you should make a t-shirt pimping EF/the 5x5 to save yourself the trouble of talking to people about it.

A t-shirt saying "squat, eat, sleep, repeat" in big letters running down the back would be cool

Maybe,

SQUAT
PUSH
PULL
eat
sleep
REPEAT

Isolation is for chumps

I don't think it will fit though.

 

[djeclipse]

I'm back after taking 6 days off form lifting. My lower back feels a lot better, but still not 100%, i’d say like 95%.

I am down to 177.5lbs or so BW.

For a while I've been contemplating changing the rep scheme up a little and I think now is the time. I will try a 3 x 8 instead of the 5x5.

1. The weights will be lighter so my lower back will have more time to heal/ get stronger.

2. I should be out of the gym faster a it is the summer and I need my tan .

I am not sure what to do with wed though. I think I will stay away from deads for a while and was thinking of subbing in powercleans for deads. Is this ok or should I really try to keep deads in there.

With the deads I think my lower back needs at least a dayto heal and it's not really getting that with playing soccer the next day. I think that was the casue of the "injury". it sucks becaue I relaly like deads and was still making progress on them.

Anyway I will start a new journal and link it to this one as it has all my diet and progress info in it.

 

[djeclipse]

Here is the link to my new journal..

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=493969