Shades Jr (howelad)- Linear/Single Factor 5x5 Progess

[howelad]

He was actually just working out for the day up there, and he joined me on my 5x5. He said he would try to 5x5 with me, which is awesome.

 

[Shades McCool]

Good work on hanging in there with the big dude. Keep up the big work and we will see how much you weigh when I come to town for your birthday.

 

[oso0690]

Good job Howelad I want to see how much you progress on the 5x5 and I bet you felt pretty good to be just as strong as someone weighing 100 more pounds than you

 

[BiggT]

Today is a training day, right? Post up, then add the post-workout meal in the cafeteria......you actually got me in the mood for KFC, but I am in the northeast, I have an excuse, lol, what is a Southern boy in AL doing at a KFC when you're probably surrounded by the real deal?

 

[howelad]

Oh today is definitely training day. I can not wait to post up the numbers I KNOW I am going to pump today.

Even though this is the south, we dont have fried chicken vendors on the side of the street. I wish we did though.

 

[howelad]

So I had another great workout today..

Reps Weight
Squat
5- 127
5- 159
5- 191
5- 223
3- 261
8- 191

Bench
5- 104
5- 130
5- 156
5- 182
3- 214
8- 156

Row
5- 76
5- 96
5- 115
5- 134
3- 157
8- 115


Started off on my squats as always, and they were still a little sore from monday's lift. Everything was goign great until the set of 3, where i thought it got pretty tough. My back was giving out and i still had a set of 8 to go. But i blasted through it and got it without a problem.

I still love the look on the NBA's "Nothing but arm's" guys faces when i do ATF squats. It's priceless.

So bench was just the same, and i did my nosebreakers as my aux lift.

Bent row actually felt easier than the last time i did it on saturday, which made me feel good.


But the biggest surprise of the day was when i weighed myself before my lift.

I weighed 179!!! thats easily the most I have ever weighed in my life, and 4 more prounds than on mondays lift. It really pumped me up for the workout.

After my lift I ran to the fiji house to eat some ribs, but sadly, they were all gone. So I just went to little ceasers and got a $5 pizza and some breadsticks, which i destoryed when I got home.

Another great day, and I actually already have people telling me that they notcie that I am getting bigger, which just makes me want to try even harder!!

 

[BiggT]

Sounds like your body wants to grow....are you off until Sat now? For following along purposes, I guess you're doing Sat-Mon-Wed.

 

[howelad]

Yeah it really seems like it wants to bigger, and im going to let it. And yes, I am doing a Sat-Mon-Wed workout. Because I really know i won't get that great of a lift on fridays after a long day at work.

 

[BiggT]

did you lose your access to the training table when you stopped playing ball? That is just infinite access to whatever you want to eat.