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[fish]

1/30/4

Resistance

Warm up: C2 10 min 129 OHR

HexbarDeadLift: 5x135 4x185 3x205 2x225 5x265
BenchPress: 5x95 4x115 3x135 2x155 5x173
MilitaryPress: 5x45 4x65 3x85 2x105 5x116.5
SeatedLowCableRow: 5x90 4x110 3x140 5x156.5

Cool down: C2 5 min

Music: Carmina Burana - Carl Orff

Comment: January progress:
HexbarDeadLift: 225 to 265
BenchPress: 155 to 173
MilitaryPress: 105 to 116.5
SeatedLowCableRow: 140 to 156.5

I aim for two more weeks in the cycle.

[Pam]

Thats some progress Fish. How did you manage such big increases? Nice job fish...we'll have you powerlifting before you know it.

[fish]

Pam,

I should have labeled it “progression” rather than “progress”.

‘03 was the first year I did any systematic weight training. I did 7 months of 2 x week static resistance workouts and then spent the next 5 months playing outside. I have never had any real idea of my limits in any lift.

I re-started resistance in mid December using the two weeks to get things lubed up.

Then in January 04 I started my first ever progression toward heavier weights.

So I started at numbers I felt very comfortable with, numbers I thought were well within my capacity.

Thus, I had of room for progression.

Things are tightening up now, and are going to slow down. I hope to get another two weeks out of this cycle, call those numbers 100%, drop back to 80%, take 4 weeks to get to 100% and then get another 2 weeks of progress. The cycle after that I intend to increase the rep scheme, start using a double progression method, and lengthen the cycle.

This will be my first series of cycles, and I am less interested in numbers than in practical learning. I already have a list of questions I’m trying to answer. And I don’t want to take an injury. So it is not likely that I will be trying to get to max numbers with the HDL anytime soon. Maybe never.

It’s good to see you, Pam. Now where is Jack ?

Keep the faith,

fish