Midsummas's Log

[midsummas]

To the people that read the above post, I am by no means condoning the use of alcohol or drugs, I think I am one of the most responsible people I know, so don't do what I did. The most ironic thing was, that the next day at my training session, one of the topics my coach talked about was Drugs & Alcohol. What I don't understand is how do elite athletes do it. I know several young "Stars" that play basketball and Australian League Football at national level and state level that regularly partake in binge drinking and drug use every weekend. How do they keep on performing, I feel, like i'm literally broken after doing something like that. It's very strange.

[midsummas]

Thursday
10 min warmup consisiting sledgehammers and skipping
Squat 1x5 40kg, 1x5 80kg, 5x5 107.5kg
Overhead Press 1x5 25kg, 5x5 40kg
Dead lift 1x5 40kg, 5x5 130kg
Pull-Up 3 sets 4,4,4

These were the hardest sets I have ever done. My body is feeling good again, other than the pain from actually doing the workout. The Deadlifts were Killers. I almost didnt make 5x5, but I sucked it in and gutsd it out. YEAH!

[danmarmu]

Midsumma,

The stronglifts 5x5 program calls for 1x5 on the deadlifts, not 5x5. The reasoning is that deadlifts work a lot of the same muscle groups as the squat so once you get to heavier weight, it will tax your body too much. In other words it will be real easy to lose form and hurt yourself.

Keep up the good work.

[midsummas]

Sunday
5 Min Skipping Intervals, 5 min Sledgehammers
Squat 1x5 40kg, 1x5 80kg, 5x5 110kg
Bench 1x5 40kg, 2x5 67.5kg, 1x5 65kg, 1x5 60kg, 1x5 40kgs
Barbell Row 1x5 40kg, 5x5 62.5kg
Dips BW 3 sets 9,7,4

Danmarmu was right, I still had not recovered from the dead lifts from Tuesday and 2 basketball games in a row last night, where I constantly put my body on the line and I was feeling the effects of a hard week. Could have been stress as well as work is not going as well as I planned with my promotion and uni getting close to exams as well.

I failed on the bench big time, I think I need a wider grip, so I am going to restart at 40kgs on the bench with the wider grip as my bench pole supports seem to be a bit too small and makes my hand placement at shoulder width, which makes it almost a close grip bench for me. Hopefully this will solve one of my weakest links.

[midsummas]

Sunday
20 min Bball Warmup
Squat 1x5 40kg, 1x5 80kg, 5x5 112.5kg
Overhead Press 1x5 25kg, 5x5 42.5kg
Dead lift 1x5 42.5kg, 1x5 82.5kg, 1x5 102.5kg, 1x5 122.5kg, 1x5 142.5kg
Chin-up 3 sets 6,5,5
Reverse Crunch 3x10 no weight.

Ok have listened to Danmarmu and not done a full set of 5x5's on the deadlift at the max weight I can do, instead working my way up to the weight I want to be at for that session. I don't feel as worn out as my last deadlift session, but this could be because I have had enough sleep this time round. I know it looks like I'm still doing a 5x5 on the deadlift, but I am not doing it with max weights, just working up to the main weight.

[midsummas]

Tuesday
20min BBall
Squat 1x5 40kg, 1x5 80kg, 5x5 115kg
Bench 1x5 40kg, 5x5 42.5kgs
Barbell Row 1x5 40kg, 5x5 65kg
Dips BW 3 sets 10,7,5
Reverse Crunch 3x10 No Weight

[oi_joe]

wow good lifting,

with the deadlift warm up, you don't need to do 5 reps for each weight, one rep is enough, you might find you have abit more in you with a smaller warm up, so you may be able to deadlift more