Thursday, June 30, 2011

Shanker Random Ass Training Update

Slightly ironic that I post this on eve of coming back to Boston for a week, but I've got time to kill. First a little background on my situation. I've been in NY for about 7 weeks now and have yet to move in to my actual permanent apartment. I say this primarily because it implies that I haven't had a kitchen for 7 weeks and have had to lift at this place called Club H (yes, there are greco-roman statues, colored lights and club music, but they have a power rack and platform, so I can't be picky. Also, sadly, I'm 99% sure I'm the only person there who routinely moves anything more than 3 plates, so they pretty much let me do whatever the fuck I want.) Eating out all the time + no cardio - prowler = fatass Shanker. I'm probably anywhere from 188-192, to put that in perspective when I left I was about 182. Actually I've embraced this 7 week period for exactly this purpose...adding mass, since as soon as I'm able to cook again I'll get too anal and obsessive that putting on weight will become the pain in the ass it's always been. Burgers (usually 4/day), pies (no, not slices, we're talking whole pies), etc... It's been fun.

The following is a testament to lifting consistency. I've had some REALLY shitty days. I'm talking days when deadlifting 445 or squatting 315 felt heavy to the point where I could barely hit my allotted lifts. I don't travel well, and the first 2 weeks down here were really tough, physically speaking. I was stiff as a board and weak as hell. But I got my lifts in and before long we had the following highlights. Keep in mind this is over the course of basically 1.5 cycles of 5/3/1 after a 90% reset, which I implemented my first week down here.

All of the following are rep PR's:
Squat:
315x8
335x6

Bench Press:
230x7
240x6

Deadlift
450x8
475x6

Military (I just started these again after not doing them for about 5 months, so they really suck)
140x5

Since this has been a reset of 5/3/1, I'm dealing with suboptimal circumstances and I was basically looking at this from a mass gaining perspective, I put all my assistance work in the 6-12 rep range. For instance on squat day I'll do 3 sets of 245x8 then 3 sets of 275x6 in addition to my 5/3/1 sets. Same with dips/incline on bench day and deadlifts on DL day. It seems to be working...or I just got really fucking fat. We'll see.

1 comment:

  1. I can testify to the latter, having had to help him undo his belt on its usual hole.

    :P

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