Start of the new year!

**beN123** · 06-01-2010 02:48 PM

Sup people!

Been on the forums for a fair while now but have yet to make a journal. As its the start of a new year I though now would be a good time to start one up and see how things go.

I've recently started 5x5, built my way up to weights that im starting to find heavy, but not quite there yet.

Im currently weighing just over 60kg at around 6foot. Aims are to just get as strong as possible, if I get bigger then great but its not my main concern. Always been good at long distance running and endurance rather than sprinting and explosiveness, so should be good to see how long it takes to get stronger.

Aims:
1.5BW squat
2x bodyweight deadlift
1xbodyweight bench- bench is by far the weakest lift so this is what I want to reach more than anything.
No real time limits, as long as I keep adding 2.5kg each session im happy.

Todays sesh:

Started with bench cause someone was on the rack.
15x bar
10x20
5x 35
5x 35
5x 35
5x 35
5x 35

Squat:
10x bar
5x 30
3x 40
5x50
5x50
5x50
5x50
5x50

Paused squats
5x40
5x40
5x40

Close grip bench
5x30
5x30
5x30

Hang Cleans - never done these so practicing technique...
5xbar
5xbar
5xbar

Upright rows
5x30
5x30
5x30
5x30
5x30

First session back after my IBS attack, lost some strength but not as much as expected so quite pleased.

**beN123** · 08-01-2010 02:16 PM

8/1/10

Didnt really feel upto the gym today as I woke up late and was out of schedual, but went anyway ofcourse.

Squat
bar x lots
30x8
40x5
52.5x5
52.5x5
52.5x5
52.5x5
52.5x5

Been waiting for so long wthere wasnt much time to do military press, so skipped and went to deads.

Deads
bar x lots
50x5
60x3
92.5x1
90x2

God knows what happened here, my illness hasnt shown untill here, where ive lost a good 5 reps on 92.5, next sesh will more than make up for this, seriously dissapointed. My transition to paelo eating no doubt has some effect as well.

Negative pullups
x8
x6
x5

Pretty awfull session, everything felt harder than it should of and we were waiting for ages to start because our gym sucks ass.

**beN123** · 11-01-2010 10:58 PM

11/1/10

Squats
bar x lots
30x8
40x5
55x5x5

Bench
bar x lots
25x8
30x5
37.5x5x5

BOR (wide grip to chest)
bar x lots
30x5x3

Paused squats (3 second pause, ATG)
40x5
50x5x3

Nice session, squats were easy, paused were quite fast. Bench was hard, technique definately needs improving as some reps were fairly easy, other were nearly failure

. Managed to get all the sets though so im happy.

**beN123** · 13-01-2010 03:01 PM

13/1/10

Bodyweight was just under 60kg upon waking.

Squats
bar x lots
30x8
40x5
57.5x5x5
80x1 (massive pb)
Felt strong so went for 80 out of the blue, first attempt failed because of poor form but 2nd attempt went up easy, could of had another 2 if I pushed hard.

OH Press
bar x lots
25x 5
30x5x5

Deadlift
50x8
90x5
100x1(massive pb again)
Went for this for the same reason as squat, quite hard.

Negative pullups
x8
x5
x2 - absolutely spent by now.

Been on 5x5 for about 3 weeks consistently and am pleased with the progress, hopefully more to come.

**comanight2** · 13-01-2010 03:07 PM

your weighing in at 60 kilos at 6ft? flippin eck son! time for you to gomad!

**beN123** · 13-01-2010 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by comanight2

your weighing in at 60 kilos at 6ft? flippin eck son! time for you to gomad!

Indeed, how ever I wouldn't call myself extremely skinny compared to your average kid my age, but definately not very big lol. My aim is to be light so im actually very happy at this weight.

**comanight2** · 13-01-2010 05:00 PM

ahhh, its a great build for endurance stuff !

I'd make sure you get enough food in though, or youll end up doing all that work for no reward

**beN123** · 13-01-2010 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by comanight2

ahhh, its a great build for endurance stuff !

I'd make sure you get enough food in though, or youll end up doing all that work for no reward

If you mean by size gains then im not too fussed, currently eating when im hungry until im full, 150g protein and the rest fats. Carbs come from veg and fruit, reason for this is get IBS now and then and have seen a lot of recommendations from people here on the high fat diet, strength is increasing nicely.

Once I get strong enough I might swap but for now im loving 5x5 and will be sticking with it for quite a while I think.

**beN123** · 15-01-2010 01:54 PM

15/1/10
Weight 60kg

Squats
bar x lots
40x8
60x5x5

Bench
bar x lots
30x5
35x3
40x5x5

BOR(wide grip to chest)
bar x lots
30x3x5

Hardest session of my life, was at kinetika gym today so no squat rack which was abit of a confidence issue, bar was also hitting against a couple spots at the top of my back. Managed to get through all my sets.

Bench I knew would be hard, managed to JUST get all the sets with my spot helping my very slightly on the last set. I was going light headed by the last few.

Canceled my membership with the kinetika gym, so not long before I can have a rack with every session which is great.

**beN123** · 18-01-2010 01:23 PM

18/1/10

Weight: 60kg

Squats
bar x lots
40x8
50x5
62.5x5x5 Quite easy

Working set
YouTube - MOV00648.3GP

Working set, different view.
YouTube - MOV00649.3GP
Press
bar x lots
30x8
32.5x5x5 Hard

Deadlifts
60x5
92.5x5 Hard

Warmup
YouTube - MOV00650.3GP
Form here looks alot bettter than my heavy lift lol.

YouTube - MOV00652.3GP

Looks like my back is rounding abit, and also that im pulling with my back alot instead of hams.

Anyone elses view is much appreciated