Day 117

Today I worked out with Sean for the first time and it went really well. I was able to help him on what he needed work on and he was there to help me with my form with squats. Unfortunately I didn't realize how much harded doing a squat was outside of a Smith Machine, when I was now using the Squat rack. I was only able to go up to 135 lbs because its that much more unstable and you are actually having to control that motion entirely instead of relying on a machine.

So I didn't really keep track of what I did. We just messed around with my form and a bunch of different weights and reps. Hopefully by Friday I will be able to do my standard 3 sets, 5 reps and also hit up the bench press and chin ups. It was a good day to get everything fixed and have Sean there to help me out. I had a lot of fun doing that with him.

Day 115

Had a pretty good workout! Nothing out of the ordinary, did the usual of:

Squats:
135 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Bench Press:
60 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Overhead Press:
60 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Chin-ups:
3 X My Max

Not a bad workout! But I have to get away from using the Smith Machine and start using a squat rack :( which will make things harder.

Day 112

Instead of working out today, I went and snowboarded the entire day at Copper Mtn. It was great because we did 11 runs, several of which were challenging bump runs, and I got a good workout in. Even though I didn't lift, it still worked all of my muscles enough for me to be happy about missing a lifting day. 10:45 am to 3 pm of skiing is a good amount of time to workout. I got some great cardio in and my legs got a good burn being in that seated position.

Day 110

Got another good workout in. It was kind of difficult due to the fact that I don't think I had enough to eat during the day or enough to drink either. So that was kind of a bummer and it made the silly squat much more challenging than it needed to be. But finals are finished and the stress is starting to die down, so that possibly had to do with it as well.

Here's the workout:

Squats:
125 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Deads:
60 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Bench Press:
60 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Overhead Press:
60 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

A pretty sucky workout, but I'm glad its out of the way :)

Day 108

Still moving up in Starting Strength as I'm supposed to be doing. It's been a rough week with finals happening the last several days.On Tuesday I'm finally done though!! Can't wait to be done. :) Well here's the work out for the day...

Squats:
115 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Bench Press:
55 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Overhead Press:
55 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Chin Ups:
3 sets X my max

Not a bad work out, but stress is really getting bad. Gonna find an alternative stress reliever :)

Day 105

So working out has to be the most fantastic thing ever. I bought a dress today took a picture of it to send to Meeeeechelle and she freaked cause my ass was huge. Looking at it now, its looking big but how amazing is that! I'm working on my thighs and butt and it appears things are working for me :) It has me really happy with what I've got going on, and only 3+ months into lifting too!

Well heres what I did for this workout. Everything moved up in weight as it should, except due to lack of energy thanks to finals, I didn't do chin ups.

Squats:
105 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Bench Press:
50 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Overhead Press:
50 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Finals are here so my energy has been at a low thanks to the draining that school and studying have on me. I'm just excited for Wednesday to get here already!!

Day 103

Moving up in weight yet again...day after day after day after day. Ha ha! This workout goes so much faster than what I was doing before and it is easier at the moment. I'm not too sure how long that will last, but it will make me move up in weight rapidly and its increasing my appetite for many, many things.

Squats:
95 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Dead Lift:
55 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Bench Press:
45 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Overhead Press:
45 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

The dead lift weight is a total joke, but its been years since I've done a it. I'm starting so low to play it safe, because I'd hate to hurt myself doing something stupid. Other than that, a good workout and relief I'm not doing chin ups! Ha!

Day 101

After some suggestive tips from good ol' Seanny, I moved down in weight for my squats so that the increases wont be so hard early on. I started off with only 85, which isn't a huge decrease but its somewhere to start! Heres what I did:

Squats:
85 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Bench Press:
40 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Overhead Press:
40 lbs--3 sets, 5 reps

Chin Ups
3 sets of my max ranging from 4 to 6...so pathetic.

Chin ups are still not my friend but I'm not sore in my arms all that much, mainly the hips :( Oh well it "hurts so good" I guess

Day 97

So I went up in weight for this workout. Increased by 5 or 10 lb increments as I've been instructed to do, but crazy workout man Sean says i need to lower my lifts even more so its pointless to even list what I did. It was the first day of deadlifts though. They weren't all that bad, but its definitely been a while. :)