My 5x5 SF Journal

[anotherbutters]

Anyway upsetting day honestly. I've been stuck at these lifts for the past 6 months and it's really starting to frustrate the hell out of me.

One of the reasons for the ramping is that you get stronger by having progressively harder workouts that provide an ever-increasing stimulus, even if the weights are sub-maximal. It took me ages to figure that out. Without the ramping, you end up performing the same maximal weights week after week, providing an unchanging stimulus, wondering why you're not getting any stronger. That's why you aim to hit your PRs in week 4.

With the rows, you might want to drop the weight right back as they're new to you in that position. Try stretching your hamstrings. Can you touch your toes?

dj, welcome back, you reprobate

 

[WannaBeBig72]

I'm not an expert on rows so maybe someone else can answer your questions better.

You are going to have some movement of the uper body as it's almost imposable to stay 100% 90deg.

When I start the lift I try to focus on pulling my shoulder blades back and together (easier said then done).

It's OK to set one exercise back and continue with the other 2? Things won't get too out of sync (not that this really makes sense).

 

[djeclipse]

dj, welcome back, you reprobate

Thank you sir..... um, I think....

 

[anotherbutters]

If you're starting out, then yes. They'll all be hard soon enough Just try to keep things moving as long as possible, even if it means making smaller jumps later.

 

[WannaBeBig72]

One of the reasons for the ramping is that you get stronger by having progressively harder workouts that provide an ever-increasing stimulus, even if the weights are sub-maximal. It took me ages to figure that out. Without the ramping, you end up performing the same maximal weights week after week, providing an unchanging stimulus, wondering why you're not getting any stronger. That's why you aim to hit your PRs in week 4.

With the rows, you might want to drop the weight right back as they're new to you in that position. Try stretching your hamstrings. Can you touch your toes?

dj, welcome back, you reprobate

I'm going to set my rows back and continue along with my the rest of my lifts. I'm nervous about failing next Monday but we'll see. My legs were shakey from the squats so kind of felt it alot while bending over. I'm hoping the lighter weights with my rows really helps with my form.

 

[djeclipse]

It's OK to set one exercise back and continue with the other 2? Things won't get too out of sync (not that this really makes sense).

Yes it is ok to d this.. infact if you look at my journal, well before it was deleted you would see that I reset a few of my lufts and then continued to make gains later on.

 

[WannaBeBig72]

Yes it is ok to d this.. infact if you look at my journal, well before it was deleted you would see that I reset a few of my lufts and then continued to make gains later on.

Yeah I noticed that about your journal. What was up with that? Why was it deleted?

 

[djeclipse]

Yeah I noticed that about your journal. What was up with that? Why was it deleted?

I was bad, you (and who ever else could have learned form my experiences with the program) are punshed for it, lol...

 

[WannaBeBig72]

Tuesday Week2
30 minutes of cardio on the eliptical.
3 sets of incline sit ups 20x20x20

Just needed to work up a sweat today.

 

[WannaBeBig72]

Wednesday Week 2

Squat
105 x 5
125 x 5
155 x 5
155 x 5


Military
75 x 5
95 x 5
110 x 5
125 x 5


Deadlift
95 x 5
115 x 5
135 x 5
155 x 5

LatPulldown
140 x 4 x 5

Everything went good today. I hit my current 5 rep maxes in Military and Deads and with both exercises I felt like I could do 2 more. Not sure what I'm going to do about the weight progressions next week (the Excel spreadsheet says I should go up to 128 in Military). I guess I'll need to go to Home Depot to build some micro-weights. I decided to throw in LatPulldowns. Should I be ramping up weights in these like the other lifts (and go for PRs)?

I have another kind of stupid question. For deadlifts I'm not sure how to count reps. I think I've been doing 6 reps as I don't count the lift up from the floor. So it goes.

up off the floor
down up
down up
down up
down up
down up
down to the floor


I guess that's 6 right? I know these questions are kind of nit-picking and in the whole scheme of things probably don't really matter...