lifting

I think I’m done with documenting workouts here. I put in a solid year going through Dave Tate’s strong(e)r program and it was mostly good. I feel like I gained a lot of strength in Phase II but Phase III burned me out and I feel like I lost a lot of power.

I’m going to be doing a much similar workout for the near future. Focusing on primary lifts: press, bench, deadlift, squat. It’ll be pretty similar to Jim Wendler’s 5|3|1 program and I’ll be working to increase strength more than anything. Fewer, heavier lifts with a deload cycle for recovery.

Next week I’ll be on vacation and I’m looking forward to the time off to recover and refocus. The last couple months burned me out and I stopped enjoying going to the gym. That’s the one thing in life that has been there for the last five years that I’ve always looked forward to, so for me it’s a good sign that I need to change things up.

Saw a guy at the gym this morning walk in and load up with knee wraps and a belt and knock out a 315 squat with no warm up. It looked like the wraps were preventing a full, deep squat but I can’t imagine doing that w/out any warm up. My body is far too old for that and I would be in more pain than normal. I’m going to continue on unassisted lifting with full range of motion and try to just keep increasing the load.

March 24, 2010 | Filed Under lifting 

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