Kuytrider's Training Log: Dipping my Rippetoe into powerlifting!

[Kuytrider]

Week 3 Day 2

Squat:
60x5
82.5x5x3:
Light squat day

Deadlift:
70x5
90x5
105x5
Not a problem, felt more explosive too

OHP:
30x5
40x5
52.5x5x3
Used minimal lower body movement and got the sucker up

Pull Ups:
B/W: 6, 4
Equalled PR in set 1 and think 7 or 8 is around the corner. Better reps too.

Weighted Push Ups:
+20KG: 2 x 12PR though it's an exercise I have only started recently.
Bloody hard!

Olympic Barbell Curls for girls:
35x8x3
Don't like working biceps but once a week as assistance is fine. This was not easy.

Abs Work:
Decline Sit Ups with 5kg: 3x10
Side Bends with 30kg dumbbell: 3 x 10 this was supersetted with Declines
Serratus Crunch with 7kg dumbbells: 3 x 12

Solid all in all.

[BendtheBar]

Solid all in all.

Looks very solid. I love seeing basic but intense workouts like this. Great job.

[Kuytrider]

Originally Posted by BendtheBar

Looks very solid. I love seeing basic but intense workouts like this. Great job.

I have been making the classic noob mistake for far too long which is to try to do too many things and change too many things at once. I want strength, so this is the right choice I feel.

Don't want to be too 'bulky' though
That friend of mine also suggested I was too bulky at a mighty 200 pounds and 5ft 11

[BendtheBar]

Originally Posted by Kuytrider

I have been making the classic noob mistake for far too long which is to try to do too many things and change too many things at once. I want strength, so this is the right choice I feel.

Don't want to be too 'bulky' though
That friend of mine also suggested I was too bulky at a mighty 200 pounds and 5ft 11

There was once a time when 200 pounds seemed massive to me. I was 150 in high school and couldn't imagine being that big.

[Kuytrider]

Originally Posted by BendtheBar

There was once a time when 200 pounds seemed massive to me. I was 150 in high school and couldn't imagine being that big.

To be honest, I can't see myself ever being beyond 220 (193 now with 209 my heaviest ever). But you know, if 230 involved lifting 500 squat and DL, I wouldn't cry

[big_swede]

Its hard to have the goal of strength and also having the goal of not being to bulky or gaining weight, there comes a time when one has to decide wich one is most important.

Good workout there, #s are solid!!

[Fazc]

Originally Posted by BendtheBar

There was once a time when 200 pounds seemed massive to me. I was 150 in high school and couldn't imagine being that big.

It's true.

I've gone back and forth over and under 200lbs for the majority of my lifting time. Each time I'm a leaner 200lber, at the moment i'm relatively lean. My stomach is flat and hard and I fit into 32inch pants and jeans. Back in the day if I got upto 200lbs I'd just be fat, with 36-38inch pants and that really didn't look great.

However 200lb with a nice trim waist looks very good.

[bruteforce]

No such thing as too bulky! Seriously though, nice work in here, those pullups are coming along quick.

[BendtheBar]

Originally Posted by Fazc

It's true.

I've gone back and forth over and under 200lbs for the majority of my lifting time. Each time I'm a leaner 200lber, at the moment i'm relatively lean. My stomach is flat and hard and I fit into 32inch pants and jeans. Back in the day if I got upto 200lbs I'd just be fat, with 36-38inch pants and that really didn't look great.

However 200lb with a nice trim waist looks very good.

I would love to be there. When I was 150 I had this view that 200 pounds would equal a large beer belly.

I hope I didn't come off as minimizing how large a lean and muscular 200 is. That wasn't my intention if I sounded this way.

[Fazc]

Originally Posted by BendtheBar

I hope I didn't come off as minimizing how large a lean and muscular 200 is. That wasn't my intention if I sounded this way.

No, no not at all. I think we both agree on realistic expectations.

Frankly I'm considering the 220's myself at some point