Week two of the Texas method.
Squat: 117.5kg 5×5
Bench Press: 77.5kg 5×5
Deadlift: 150kg 1×5 – been really working on making sure the first part of the lift comes from my quads, improving.
Pull-ups: 2xNegativesx5 trying to get these up.
A good session, despite feeling like I have a minor cold.
Today was the first recovery day in my new training programme built around the Texas Method. I was surprised to find I was still sore following Monday’s volume day, after all whilst I’d done two more sets of five I’d also dropped the weight used.
Squat: 100kg 2×5
Overhead Press: 56.25kg 3×5 – made up some of [...]
I’ve decided to change over from the Starting Strength routine to a version the Texas Method. Perhaps if I wasn’t also running three times a week I could have eeked out more from the novice routine but I’ve got several trail races and a half marathon to run this year.
So the new routine has Monday [...]
I’m going to be switching my own training routine to a version of the Texas Method with an emphasis on powerlifting. The essence of the Texas method is three days per week. The first day is a volume day, the second a recovery day and the final day an intensity day.
So here’s a version for [...]
The UK is still covered in snow, which my son loves. So today I found myself training in the garage with the door open whilst my wife and son played in the snow on the drive. Beats the hell out of looking at yourself in a mirror if you’re stuck in a globo-gym I can [...]
Reading a forum the other day I saw someone asking about buying larger diameter plates for the deadlift. He wanted them in order to raise the starting height of the bar so it’d be eaiser to add additional standard sized olympic plates.
Fair enough it’s one way of making the loading easier and we’ve probably all [...]
The UK is covered in snow at the moment. Locally we’ve had around 10-15cm of snow 2 nights ago followed by temperatures of around -8C last night. As a result the snow has stayed and Wiltshire is white!
Fortunately the snow is very powdery so despite the roads being tretcherous the local paths aren’t too bad [...]
Feeling knackered after the Christmas holidays still and training on a different day as a result of fatigue.
Squat: 110kg 3×5 – backed off on these to rest my back.
Bench Press 82.5kg 5,5,3 – damn nearly managed all three sets of 82.5kg, I really need to get some fractional plates sorted and microload this lift.
Powerclean: 30kg [...]