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Workouts for 6 to 12 March

March 5th, 2010 No Comments

OK, so week five after my deload.  This is the last week before I go on holiday so I can’t promise I’ll be completely true to plan

Assistance: I’ll start another 2 week assistance cycle when I get back.
RE (lower): I’ve just switched over from sumo to conventional deadlifts so I’ll do another week [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 27 February to Friday 5 March

February 26th, 2010 3 Comments

OK, so week four after my deload.  This will be another interesting one… 
My goals
For what it is worth, my current goals are:

a double bodyweight pull up;
a 2.5x bodyweight conventional deadlift; and
bench 100kg (220lbs).

Progress so far and notes
OK so I already have some tweaks to the programme!  I have quickly realised that max effort dips don’t [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 20 to Friday 26 February

February 19th, 2010 No Comments

OK, so week three after my deload.  This will be the interesting one… 
My goals
For what it is worth, my current goals are:

a double bodyweight pull up;
a 2.5x bodyweight conventional deadlift; and
bench 100kg (220lbs).

Progress so far and notes
This week was largely about finding out where the right weights were on my second set of max effort [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 13 to Friday 19 February

February 12th, 2010 No Comments

OK, so week two after my deload.  This should be another fun week getting used to the numbers.  Next week will be the interesting one… 
My goals
For what it is worth, my current goals are:

a double bodyweight pull up;
a 2.5x bodyweight conventional deadlift; and
bench 100kg (220lbs).

Progress so far and notes
This week was largely about finding out [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 6 to Friday 12 February

February 5th, 2010 4 Comments

OK, so week one after my deload.  Here we go, this is where things get serious. 
My goals
For what it is worth, my current goals are:

a double bodyweight pull up;
a 2.5x bodyweight conventional deadlift; and
bench 100kg (220lbs).

Progress so far and notes
I had fun deloading…
But I also sneaked in another max deadlift attempt and (fortunately for my [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 30 January to Friday 5 February

January 29th, 2010 No Comments

This is the fifth week of workouts after Christmas and I am going to hold to my New Year’s Resolutions (how are you doing with yours by the way?) and enforce a deload period on myself.  I can’t quite bring myself to do a full week (!) but I’ll have a go at deloading quite [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 23rd to Friday 29th January

January 22nd, 2010 2 Comments

This is the fourth week of workouts after Christmas.  I changed things about last week so it’s hard to tell whether I’m getting anywhere yet.  A couple of surprises with the max effort work but nothing monumental. 
My goals
For what it is worth, my current goals are:

a double bodyweight pull up;
a 2.5x bodyweight conventional deadlift; and
bench [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 16 to Friday 22 January

January 15th, 2010 No Comments

This is the third week of workouts after Christmas.  It’s probably the workout plan I should have been doing since the New Year but never mind. 
My goals
For what it is worth, my current goals are:

a double bodyweight pull up;
a 2.5x bodyweight conventional deadlift; and
bench 100kg (220lbs).

Progress so far and notes
OK so it’s time to shift [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 9 to Friday 15 January

January 8th, 2010 No Comments

This is the second set of workouts after the Christmas break.
My goals
For what it is worth, my current goals are:

a double bodyweight pull up;
a 2.5x bodyweight conventional deadlift; and
bench 100kg (220lbs).

I am hoping to achieve these goals by Easter at the latest.
Progress so far and notes 
OK so this past week will go down in history as [...]

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Workouts for Saturday 2nd to Friday 8th January

January 1st, 2010 No Comments

Here we go again!  Another new sequence of workouts.  This is the first set of workouts after the Christmas break.
My goals
For what it is worth, my current goals are:

a double bodyweight pull up;
a 2.5x bodyweight conventional deadlift; and
bench 100kg (220lbs).

I am hoping to achieve these goals by Easter at the latest.
Progress so far and notes 
There [...]

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