Thursday, 29 September 2016

StrongLifts 5x5, Week 1, Day 2

The soreness in my legs finally abated enough after a 2 day rest for me to continue my StrongLifts program. Here are the results below:

Week A
MondayWednesdayFriday
Squat 5x5 (20kg)Squat 5x5 (22.5kg)Squat 5x5 (25 kg)
Bench press 5x5 (20kg)Overhead press 5x5 (20kg)Bench press 5x5 (22.5kg)
Barbell Row 5x5 (30kg)Deadlift 1x5 (40kg)Barbell Row 5x5 (30kg)

Week B
MondayWednesdayFriday
Squat 5x5Squat 5x5Squat 5x5
Overhead press 5x5Bench press 5x5Overhead press 5x5
Deadlift 1x5Barbell Row 5x5Deadlift 1x5

Today's workout was pretty short. This is probably due mostly to the fact that I'm only doing one set of Deadlifts instead of 5, but also I suspect that I'm not resting enough in between sets. I'll investigate more.

Anyway, felt worked out and sweaty when I finished, so the effort was definitely there. I'll be hitting up the gym on Saturday for workout #3, but I'm going to go to the local sports store before hand to purchase a weight belt (I'm quickly going to need it as the lifts go up) as well as some incremental olympic plates - I checked thoroughly today, the gym I go to doesn't have any lower than 2.5kg and even those are hard to find.

Tomorrow I'm going to test my ketone levels... I'm curious what it will look like!

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