working on a new routine

[Andalite]

Stick to dumbbell rows. Dont do barbell rows....not as awesome as dumbbell rows.

 

[JDid23]

Oh okay have you thought of doing barbell rows? I never did them tell I started the 5x5 but I am loving them now...I had a lrage strength imbalance between bench and rows, and the rows shot my deadlift up(just got 350x5 yesterday) BTW, your deadlift and squats is catching up to EM!!!!! HAHA

Yeah... I used to do BB Rows and loved them as well, but my left arm is so ahead of my right arm (see pics if you want to know just how much) and it would always do more of the work so i switched to DB.

I know about the dead/squat too I think that since i've become more consistent on my form on squat (only 1 workout lol, but felt great) i am going to be progressing 5 pounds per workout. For deads, i'll hopefully be able to keep progressing as well!

 

[ExtraMile]

Oh okay have you thought of doing barbell rows? I never did them tell I started the 5x5 but I am loving them now...

I prefer barbell rows too. I only do dumbell rows for core, grip and because they make me feel badass using the heaviest dumbells, they also finish of my bi's after chins.

BTW, your deadlift and squats is catching up to EM!!!!! HAHA

bullshit, my back is 100% now and no way am I lettin this newbie beat me

lol

 

[the.gladiator1987]

Stick to db's until the imbalance gets better. I honestly think deadlifts pullups and bb rows are all you need for back seems to work for me. My logic is at the end of the day how much weight did you move, and the exercises with the most weight would be deads, bb rows, pullups. But like EM said db rows have their place, i actually need to work on them for my grip.

 

[JDid23]

yo glad haven't seen u in a while I agree with you, but since my left arm is doing most of the work i switched.

tomorrow- going for 125x3 clean and push press (using 45s hopefully in 2 more weeks from 2morrow!!)... Front squat going for 135x3, maybe 22 chinups, skull crushers more reps same weight, and SLDL i am going to completely lower the weight and do more sets.

also for light squat i am going to do 155x5x2... medium set will be 170x4x3 on thursday and i do these first thing before the rest of my workout.

 

[JDid23]

today's workout litteraly took about an hour and 45 minutes and it shouldn't have. I've never seen the shit this crowded.. everyone using the dam rack.

Squat- (light day)
95x5
115x3
135x2
155x5x2

Clean and Push Press
45x5
95x3
105x3
115x3
120x1
125x2
130x1 1/2- PR

Front Squat
45x5
95x3
115x3
125x5- PR
130x4- PR
135x3- PR

Chinups
17 total
6
4
4
3

Skull Crushers
EZ Bar + 20x8
EZ Bar +25x10- PR
EZ Bar +30x8- PR

SLDL
45x10
65x8
95x8
115x8- PR

Comments: no time for abs or finishing chinups.. The gym was packed as helll! Squats were easy as expected, clean and push press some guy who played football at PIT helped me with my form on the clean (was doing more of a hang clean) and wow it was crazy how much easier the clean was. Push press was harder though. Front Squats were great, chinups were eh, skull's were solid and SLDLs i want to focus more on the stretch than the weight.

2 questions;

since i learned to clean properly (as opposed to hang clean) i just fucking loved cleaning today. Would it matter if i took away the press and just did power cleans? Also, SLDLs are getting so annoying- would doing bulgarian split squats be okay instead?

 

[ExtraMile]

Wow you are only 109lbs off my squat!!! Lol

our front squat is kinda close though last time I did them I did 110 for 3 sets of 5...

 

[the.gladiator1987]

hey bro just do power cleans fuck clean and press lol

 

[JDid23]

Wow you are only 109lbs off my squat!!! Lol

our front squat is kinda close though last time I did them I did 110 for 3 sets of 5...

lol

1. i don't do box squats, i go ATG
2. today was light day.
3. your front squat is 25 pounds away regardless of reps, and i could also have done more reps
4.
5. please don't respond to the first 4 comments (or this) because i don't want to have pointless posts about "competition"


Gladiator- yeah i am definitely loving the clean part of it!! Since this guy helped me with my form, the 130 felt like the bar! Not going to get overconfident though. I'll see where next workout takes me.

 

[Tblock1]

today's workout litteraly took about an hour and 45 minutes and it shouldn't have. I've never seen the shit this crowded.. everyone using the dam rack.

Squat- (light day)
95x5
115x3
135x2
155x5x2

Clean and Push Press
45x5
95x3
105x3
115x3
120x1
125x2
130x1 1/2- PR

Front Squat
45x5
95x3
115x3
125x5- PR
130x4- PR
135x3- PR

Chinups
17 total
6
4
4
3

Skull Crushers
EZ Bar + 20x8
EZ Bar +25x10- PR
EZ Bar +30x8- PR

SLDL
45x10
65x8
95x8
115x8- PR

Comments: no time for abs or finishing chinups.. The gym was packed as helll! Squats were easy as expected, clean and push press some guy who played football at PIT helped me with my form on the clean (was doing more of a hang clean) and wow it was crazy how much easier the clean was. Push press was harder though. Front Squats were great, chinups were eh, skull's were solid and SLDLs i want to focus more on the stretch than the weight.

2 questions;

since i learned to clean properly (as opposed to hang clean) i just fucking loved cleaning today. Would it matter if i took away the press and just did power cleans? Also, SLDLs are getting so annoying- would doing bulgarian split squats be okay instead?

You could take away the press and do some seperate military pressing, that would be cool