Age: 22 years old
Weight: 189 lbs
Height: 6 ft
BF%: Who knows?
Experience: Beginner
I graduated from college June, 2009 and am going to be working full-time in the area. Hadn’t touched a barbell till a few months back, was overweight, and decided to make a change. There was little time to experiment in the weight room and I just did circuits of bench presses, lunges, dips, pullups, deadlifts, and shoulder presses. I realize that it was an inefficient way to pack on the muscle, but it helped me get in better shape (read: lose lard).
Going to be using 5/3/1 four days a week. I am curious to see what happens with chicken/beef/veggies/milk etc, so no supplements any time soon, with the exception of fish oil perhaps. So keep that in mind if you have any recommendations, unless I update this log otherwise.
Speaking of which, I will post up stats (based on my circuit of a couple months back) once I pull my logbook out of the shipping boxes. This log will serve as a way to get feedback from whoever wants to post, not as extra motivation.
Any reason why the only leg accessory work you’re doing is leg extensions and sldl’s? Being newer to strength training I don’t see how those will hold up in the long run as assistance excercise.
Furthermore, there’s a large disparity between the accessory work for upper body vs. lower body in terms of load and frequency. You have two pulling excercises (one horizontal/one vertical) each upperbody day and 1 pushing excercise. This is not bad. BUT you only have a few sets of leg extensions and sldl’s for the entire week to count as your lower body accessory?
[quote]ravell wrote:
Any reason why the only leg accessory work you’re doing is leg extensions and sldl’s? Being newer to strength training I don’t see how those will hold up in the long run as assistance excercise.
Furthermore, there’s a large disparity between the accessory work for upper body vs. lower body in terms of load and frequency. You have two pulling excercises (one horizontal/one vertical) each upperbody day and 1 pushing excercise. This is not bad. BUT you only have a few sets of leg extensions and sldl’s for the entire week to count as your lower body accessory? [/quote]
I am following one of C_C’s templates for 5/3/1—I’ll ask him to take a look and chime in on this. I bike to and from work around 15 miles every day so I’m currently keeping volume of leg workouts perhaps lower than I should, until I establish a better workload capacity. I am also trying to be in and out of the gym within 45’ whenever I go, so adding more exercises at this point is not part of my plan, unless someone has suggestions to superset them and minimize time spent in-gym. Let me know if you have any ideas.