New journal time to keep me motivated. After my torn pectoralis back in March, I stopped almost all things weightlifting wise in order to heal. So three months went by before I decided that my goals changed from bodybuilding to powerlifting. Read everything and then some related to power, every Dave Tate article, and every forum I could think of. My opinion was that it was too much to take in and my reading comprehension apparently sucks. So instead of fucking my training up, I went the personal trainer route and hired Reynolds. Made sense seeing as I loved Dual Factor training, Olympic squats, and standing OHP’s.
As most people know, I'm getting personally trained by Matt Reynolds with a Modified Westside template according to
my needs. The purpose of my journal is
NOT to give away what we are doing, but to provide me some extra motivation to get the job done. Plus I know some people would cut and paste what I'm doing and like a monkey fucking a football, they’d screw up their training.
If people really want to know, pay the fucking $100 cheap bastards! So I'm not posting exact weights and exercises, just the ME lifts and occasionally my DE exercises as well as my thoughts on how things are progressing and shit like that. I see a lot of other people do the same thing like at IA where they give updates, results, and other bullshit without going into exact protocols and details.
Short Term Goals:
Bench: 405 (again)
Squat: 425
Deadlift: 475-500
- Very realistic goals since I'm already relatively close. My bench is back up to around the 375 range, I just A2G squatted 375 raw, and my deadlift is at 455 w/out a belt. After I reach my short term, I'll up the stakes. I don't want to post any long term goals because I don't want to get ahead of myself. By the time I reach my short term goals, hopefully I should have at least a benching shirt, hopefully a suit as well. I just don't see any benefit over my short term numbers staying raw...Way too unsafe, and I'm mainly referring to bench. Reminds me of a good Dave Tate article I read about him saying not benching in a shirt is stupid.
If anyone has questions or comments, I encourage everyone to chime in! I really don’t want my journal as uniform as my others were. Nutrition, cardio, how ugly your mom is… If anyone’s interested in strength training, post away.
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