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keep it up guys.

Long friggin day and a late workout. Lil Bear had some wisdom teeth yanked out in the am, and I found out I need to get an MRI of my brain to see if I have any "growths" lurking. Lil Bear also had a job interview. She was psyched to lift and I just wanted to sit my depressed arse on the couch and feel mopey. She dragged me off to a 9:00pm workout (we are usually early am'ers) and I am glad she did.

Lil Bear:

Squat - 90, 5x5
Press - 45, 5x5
Dead - 110, 1x5

Me:

Squat: 45, 3x5. Finally used the olympic bar
Press: 65, 5x5
Dead: 185, 1x5 (Warmups: 45, 135 x2x5, 175x1x5)

We did close grip chins with the middle rubber band but looking at the log we did not write them down apparently (I think she did 10, 7, 6 and I did 8, 6, 4)

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Thats pretty awesome for your squats man! Your strength is coming back quick.

Your wife sounds like an excellent motivator for you.

IronWorker

We have not been lazy in the gym... I've just been lazy on the computer!

Things are going well, we've switched over to Rippetoe's starting strength (the pure form) from stronglift's 5x5.

Wife:

Squat: 115lbs 3x5 - getting heavy but she is doing great
Press: 60lb 3x5
Dead: 120lbs 1x5
Clean: 55 3x5
Bench: 80 3x5
Dips: Still cannot get to parallel, can do about 6 per set without going down all the way
Chins: Can do 12 with no 2 assistance band, going to lightest band next workout.

Me:

Squat: 75lbs 3x5
Press: 80lbs 3x5
Dead: 205lbs 1x5
Clean: 85lbs 3x5, hook grip is messing me up. need to practice.
Bench: 140lbs, 3x5
Dips: 5,5,4 I'm hitting parallel every time.
Chins: 10-12 on first set, hard decline after that (around 6) with no 2 band.

We are having a blast. I'll try to update more frequently!

Here's another update...

My wife had a hard day today and could not do her 140lbs on the squat (got 4 reps) and had a hard time with 135lbs. I think it was because she was in a rotten mopey mood, but she's decided to drop down to 130lb on wed and then get a solid 135lbs on friday. She's been better at the gym, I was sick last week and slept when I was not working so I fell off the wagon a bit. Back at it today.

Today's workout:

Wife -

Squat - 1x4 (140lbs), 1x5 (135lbs), 1x4 (135lbs)
Press - 65lbs 3x5 - she's fixed a few form problems and this looked great today. I know she's been frustrated with presses because they are not going up as fast as she would like.
Dead - 145lbs 1x5

Me -

Squat - 105lbs 3x5 - My knees are sooo much better, expect to be able to squat at least 2x per week from here on out.
Press - 95lbs 3x5
Dead - 235lbs 1x5

I'll update the other lifts on wednesday.

overhead presses don't progress as fast as other stuff tell her to keep her head up

Its true. Usually though the overall % of growth is the same it just seems slow because its a smaller relative number.

Yeah. We switched today to a 2.5lb increment with fractional plates. We can add as little as 0.5lbs a workout with those to keep the linear progress.

Alrighty then... update

Last two workouts...

Wife:

Squat Wed: 3x5 @ 130lbs, she felt weak. Decided to deload and work on form (knees wanting to come together - we can fix this)
Squat Fri: 3x5 @ 115lbs, good.
Bench: 3x5@95lbs
Press: 3x5@67.5lbs - we are using our fractional plates on this lift and going up 2.5lbs for her
Dead: 1x5@150lb - looked great!
Clean: 3x5 @70lbs

Me:

Squat wed: 3x5 @115lbs
Squat fri: 3x5@125lbs - did a few good mornings at the top. need to fix monday.
Bench: 3x5@150lbs - still very easy
Press: 3x5@100lbs. I soooooooooooo want 135!
Dead: 1x5@245lbs. This was a bit harder than I expected. But I'll get my 300 soon enough
Clean: 3x5@90lbs. I actually hit myself in the nose with the bar :/ on the first rep of set 1. No real damage!

Here is an idea for you guys. Get Power to the People, read that. Then look at Starting Strength and this stronglifts....and split the difference .

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.

P2TP looks like an interesting book. Anything with reviews that mixed has to at least be entertaining!

I think we'll stick with Rippetoe SS for now. My knees seem to be holding up - actually feeling better, now my ass and legs just hurt!