G5.0 vs. Gravity: The Neurotic Ramblings of a Man on a Mission

[Island Son]

Thanks for the support. It is actually a TON better today - at this rate it'll be gone entirely very soon. Great news, because it was pretty painful yesterday.

It seems to be an erector, near the bottom, right next to my spine. I was hobbling quite a bit yesterday but today my movement has hardly been affected. We'll see what happens at the gym tomorrow (no deads or anything, but hell, the way it feels now I wouldn't even post about it).

I had that a couple months ago. Took me a week, but you recover fast. Keep stretching!

 

[Guinness5.0]

Week 6
MONDAY
Phase 2 -- Custom DF Program

ATF Oly Squat
warmups, 315x5x3

-Easy, but not as easy as it should have been. I haven't done Oly's for reps in a while, so I imagine I'll be up to speed in short order. I hope to get 405x5x3 by week four of this little run.

Incline BB Press
warmups, 225x5x3

-Easy. I remember back in college that I was THRILLED when I was able to get 225 on incline for a single. How far I've come... I haven't done incline barbell for so long that I have no relevant maxes to gauge, so I'll just add weight weekly and see what happens.

Chins
BWx8, x5

-Maybe this'll be the run where I finally add weight to these

I lifted with a guy from my new job - a manager actually. He used to be into the BB thing (and has some AAS experience) and we got to talking about training. He seemed pretty interested in what I had to say about frequency and focusing on the compound lifts. The cool thing about this gym is that there's a basement area with a stereo on which patrons can play their own CDs, so I can have a training partener and still listen to MY lifting music .

 

[blut wump]

Sounds like a cool setup. It can be grand to have an enthusiastic and compatible training partner. How's the new job going?

 

[Guinness5.0]

How's the new job going?

So far so good. It's pretty boring since it's all training and reading at the moment, but once I get going it should be a lot more interesting. It's a sales job and I LOVE selling shit, so I'm sure that I'll like it once things get going. There are some earners in this office, and I feel that I have enough talent to be among them in short oder

 

[blut wump]

So far so good. It's pretty boring since it's all training and reading at the moment, but once I get going it should be a lot more interesting. It's a sales job and I LOVE selling shit, so I'm sure that I'll like it once things get going. There are some earners in this office, and I feel that I have enough talent to be among them in short oder

Cool, it's fun work if you enjoy it. I used to sell life assurance a long time ago and there were two or three guys in the office who could talk the proverbial hind legs off a donkey. It can be tough at first working on commission but once it gets moving it can be sweet.

 

[Guinness5.0]

Forgot to mention:

For now I'm thinking that I'll do mondays like today, then

W - DE box squat for 8 doubles, weighted dips for 5's, and a row of some sort for 5's

F - not as sure about this day, but I want to do deads. I don't know if i should - I may be better served by heavy GMs during the volume portion and deads in the intensity phase. Then I'll do front squats and OHP.

So there is a Heavy/Medium/Light movement each day, and a H/M/L movement for squat/press/pull over the course of the week. I'm calling the GMs a pull despite the fact that it really doesn't fit there perfectly, but it's my program and I can do what I want

I'm using dips as my heavy press. I would like to have some serious weight hanging off the belt for reps by week four. I've used as much as 100 pounds for 5 reps on 'tricep' (torso upright) dips, so I'd like to beat that by a fair margin this time.

 

[Cynical Simian]

Congrats all around. Sounds like everything's working out well with the new job, gym and training parter.

Oh, and for someone who's still in college and working his way up to 225 on bench, that comment about the progress you've made was very encouraging. Good stuff.

Just saw the post about the layout while I was typing this. I was going to ask this question: "did you decide to go with chins instead of rows because they're easier on the joints and/or to keep your erectors a bit fresher for deads?" But now I see that you've included them on Wed. I'll be interested to see what Illuminati has to say about GMs vs. deads choice on Fridays.

 

[Jim Ouini]

I lifted with a guy from my new job - a manager actually.

Brown-noser.

Seriously though, nice to have you back and things are going well.

F - not as sure about this day, but I want to do deads. I don't know if i should - I may be better served by heavy GMs during the volume portion and deads in the intensity phase. Then I'll do front squats and OHP.

That's gonna be the plan when I run 5 x 5 again - last time I included deads in volume phase it burned me out too fast.

 

[Guinness5.0]

I was going to ask this question: "did you decide to go with chins instead of rows because they're easier on the joints and/or to keep your erectors a bit fresher for deads?" But now I see that you've included them on Wed. .

I was thinking about this and I'm probably going to move the rows to mon and the chins to weds for that exact reason. I was trying to keep the h/m/l theme, but two light movements on weds (DE squats and chins) and two mediums on mon (incline and rows) is not gonna ruin me

 

[blut wump]

Brown-noser.

Seriously though, nice to have you back and things are going well.



That's gonna be the plan when I run 5 x 5 again - last time I included deads in volume phase it burned me out too fast.

Didn't you run them with box-squats, though? Box-squats and deads took too much out of me when I ran them together. I find that front-squats and GMs make a great combination.