Mobley's Journal

Re:Mobley's Journal (brihead301)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:36:42 GMT

good. get to it!!

Re:Mobley's Journal (dmobley01)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:20:11 GMT

man i've been working on gaining. iv'e put on about 8 pounds in about 1 1/2 months. eating is the hardest thing i have to do concerning weight lifting. but i'm trying.

my form was breaking down on the squats. but when i did 225 it felt much better. when the weight got around 260 i felt a lot more lower back muscle tightness (pump). so i was probably doing more of a good morning. i'm focusing on that now though.

really i just got to force myself to eat more like you say. hmm, maybe i'll go make myself a peanut butter, butter, oatmeal and maple surup melt. wait was there bacon in that too?

Re:Mobley's Journal (brihead301)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:59:12 GMT

You're having trouble on the squat right where I started having trouble. If you haven't reset already, a reset would be a good idea (I see you chose to do 10 lb. increases, that's good).

I'd say that your main problem is that you need to eat more though. Resets will help a little bit because you simply need to recover from some fatigue build-up, but gaining weight will most definately do the trick in getting you up to the next level.

Once you have hit a respectable body weight, and you have experimented with a few resets and stalls, you may be ready to move on to intermediate programming. Just make sure that you've milked your novice training for all you can first.

Re:Mobley's Journal (dmobley01)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:47:31 GMT

update:

Squat - 270 3x5 (failed on 275)
Bench - 170 3x5 (failed on 175)
Deadlift - 305 1x5
Power Clean - 140 3x5 (failed on 145)
OH Press - 90 3x5 (stared using push press to continue. currently at 105 3x5)

reset some lifts until all my lifts fail:
squat - 225 3x5 w/ 10lb increase
deadlift - continuing progression
bench - DB 55's
Power Cleans - 135 3x5 (i think the fail at 145 was caused form not strength. we'll see.)
OH Press - continuing progression with push press

Re:Mobley's Journal (dmobley01)

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:18:02 GMT

Ok so i've slacked off a lot on my journel. so i'm just going to post my last two A and B workouts.

A:
squat - 255 3x5
bench - 165 3x5 (i'm so weak on bench)
deadlift - 285 1x5

B:
squat - 260 3x5 (pretty tough for me)
OH Press - 85 3x5
Power Clean - 140 3x5 (form not the best on these. not sure the cause. we'll see how they go next time.)

Re: RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:11:49 GMT

Wednesday 9/25/08 - (SS ROUTINE)

Weight = 167.2 (son of a...)

Squat - 3x225 (widen the stance a bit and it seemed to help the hip pain.)

Standing OH Press - 3x5 75 (not to bad)

Power Clean - 3x5 125 (these felt pretty good.)

Re: RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:29:39 GMT

Monday 9/22/08 - (SS ROUTINE)

weight (in the morning) = 167.4

Squat - 3x220 (still have the pain. not sure what to do. don't want to stop because i was off for so long.)

Bench - 3x5 145

Deadlift - 1x5 240 (felt great.)

Re: RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:19:45 GMT

Friday 9/19/08 - (SS ROUTINE)

Squat - 3x215 (feeling much better than before.)

Standing OH Press - 3x5 70 (not to bad)

Power Clean - 3x5 120 (these felt pretty good.)

I think i'm finally getting back into shape a bit. I'm at least not getting to tired by the end like when i started. espeacially at these lower weights.

Re: RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:15:45 GMT

Wednesday 9/17/08 - (SS ROUTINE)

Squat - 3x210 (still have a little pain in hip but nothing horrible)

Bench - 3x5 140 (really dropped the weight here. focused on getting a good bench and i'm feeling it today actually)

Deadlift - 1x5 235 (felt pretty good.)

Re: RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:01:08 GMT

Monday 9/16/08 - (SS ROUTINE)

Squat - 3x205 (have a pain in the right side of my hip. not sure whats that all about but i can work through it.)

Standing OH Press - 3x5 65

Power Clean - 1x5 115 (last set didn't go very well.)

I guess I wasn't as back as i thought, but i think i am now. I was not feeling very well after and during power cleans. I had a couple rough days/nights over the weekend so i will chalk it up to that. It's time to get back in the routine though.

Re: RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:33:08 GMT

Tuesday - (SS ROUTINE)

Squat - 3x205 (started lite to get back in the game. I am a little sore though.)

Bench - 3x5 155 (I think i may have lost some on bench because this was actually kind of hard for me.)

Deadlift - 1x5 245 (felt good)

well i'm back and ready to go again. I had a ton of fun overseas, but i'm ready to get back in my routine again too.

Re: RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:16:14 GMT

Saturday - (SS ROUTINE)

Squat - 3x5 235 (Felt great. either the low bar allows you to have a more powerful squat or my strength has went up because these are feeling pretty easy.)

DB Bench - 3x5 70's (as i expected these were pretty hard for me, but i got them all.)

Deadlift - 1x5 280 (yike! this was rough for me but i got through them with good form. close to 5 rep max i think.)

unfortunatly, I think this is going to be my last training day for a while. I only have 3 days left before i leave and over the weekend i got a nice little cut on my foot. Inorder for me not to agravate that anymore, i've decided to skip my last workout. I also got a nast sunburn on the back which would not make squatting very simple.

I'll be back and hitting the weights hard again the first of september though.

Re: RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:38:06 GMT

Wednesday - (SS ROUTINE)

Squat - 3x5 230 (Man i was still sore in the glutes and top of my hammys from monday when i did these. I think this time around felt even better than the last besides i had to the bar a little too low on my first set. but i fixed it and it was great.)

OH Press - 3x5 95 (failed on number 4 on the last set. going to drop down in weight a bit and go from there.)

Power Cleans - 3x5 135 (these were exhuasting but felt good. going to move up to 140 next time. form seems to be better except when i get tired and don't get a good jump in there.)

overall this routine is rough. the squat/deadlift or sqaut/power clean combination is deadly.

RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:47:10 GMT

Monday - (SS ROUTINE)

Squat - 3x5 225 (Finally did low back squats and i got to say they were great. I got used to the feeling on my warm up sets and was golden on my working sets. I'm feeling it today too.)

DB Bench - 3x5 65's (still pretty easy. wondering if 70's will be more of a challenge.)

Deadlift - 1x5 275 (I was exhuasted after these. It felt pretty good though.)

I only have 9 more days to train until a 2 week break, so i got to make them count.

RE: Mobley's Journel (dmobley01)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:24:29 GMT

Thursday - MAXING

Squat - 290x1 (I only planned on going up 10 pounds from my last max i had and thats what i did. My form has developed a bit sine my last one and 290 was probably all I could have got. I was worried for a monent I was going to fail but got it up.)

DB bench - 60's 3x5 (decided i was going to use dumb bells for a while just to mix it up. 60's was not much for me to find out but i wasn't sure when i started. i'll up them next time probably to 70's)

Power Cleans - 135 3x5 (WOOT! these things kicked my ass but felt awesome. my form "felt" good on all but about 1. I'm sticking to 135 for another 3x5 probably though. start progressing after that.)