Weight Lifting Workouts: Starting Strength (my week 7)

Week 7 Update Video!

with video Included below!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMEseDPZRk

Hello my friends! Its been around a week since my last post! I’m sorry I haven’t been more active but I’ve been busy with work and getting off late, you know.. the usual excuse :P, its true though! I did record some of my exercises today and along with my fishing expedition(which was fail because we caught no fish! 🙁 ). Either way though I had a good day and got to spend time with my girlfriend along with a  good workout in! I didn’t post about Session # 17, either way that went alright but you already should know about my stall on the press exercise. If not check out my last post  before this!

Here are the stats today for Starting Strength Session #18. Only the working sets are posted.

Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength Session # 18

Squat(Hack Technique) 165lbs
1 set of 5 reps @ 165lbs
2 sets of 5 reps @ 150lbs

Okay, so I’m sure your looking at those numbers and going…. huh? Well thats right, I’m getting close to way above my max weight. Which means these reps are getting insanely hard to do, I’m about 145-148 lbs now, so these are rather difficult. The 150lbs were not so bad but the 165lb set was tough & my form was bad on those, so I lowered the weight to 150 to get good form. I’m probably going to increase 5lbs on this exercise per week or maybe 2.5 lbs. Gradually build back up to 165lbs so I can have good form!

Overhead Press 
Supposed to be: 5/5/5 @ 120lbs
My reps: 3/3/3 @ 115lbs

So, if you watched my last video or read my blog post from last week. You would know that I stalled on this exercise at 115lbs. I told myself I would do 3 more workouts at this weight (115lbs), and aim for 5/5/5 but I said 3/3/3 would be better for the next 3 workouts with this. Today I was able to complete 3/3/3 instead of my usual on this which is like 4/1/0, well last week’s was at least. Anyway this exercise is always hard but I felt good being able to do it correctly with good form @ this weight even though the reps were less than 5 each. Going to keep this set/reps for the next 2 workouts.

Power Clean
Supposed to be 5 sets of 3 reps @ 125lbs
My Reps: 5 sets of 3 reps @ 105lbs

I tried doing the first rep of 125lbs and I wasn’t able to get the bar to my chin, I felt uncomfortable with that weight and instantly knew I wouldn’t be able to complete the required sets. So I lowered down to 105lbs and did 5 sets of 3 reps. Was tough towards the end but I have this new thing going on. Basically I HAVE to do the correct amount of reps for that set or its a failed set and i lower the weight. Meaning if I need to do 3 reps @ 125lbs and I cant do 1 or I do 1, rest, 1, rest, 1 rest. That is a failed set and i reset down about 10% weight for the next 2 workouts. We’ll see how it goes!

total calories: 3504

This is some of what I ate
This is exactly what I ate
Fat(g) Carbs(g) Prot(g) KCals
102.28 466.89 181.46 3504

 

Calorie Percent:  100%

 

Still not done eating yet today so I should be able to hit 100% for sure!\

[UPDATED] 10PM- I hit my calorie mark for today! Yay!

Talk to you soon!

-Lloyd Sterling

thenuwavefitness.com

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