Oh my… this day is going to be a butt-kicker on this program. 🙂
“Week 1” – BBB 3 Month Challenge
- 5 reps – Deadlift (working max: 325#)
- 1x5x135
- 1x5x165
- 1x3x195
- 1x5x215 (work)
- 1x5x245
- 1x5x280
- Asst. #1 – Squat
- 5 x 10 x 135
- Asst. #2 – Ab Wheel
- 5 x 5 x BW (from the knees)
- Foam Rolling
Holy crap. 🙂
This day is going to be a killer day. All that heavy deadlifting, then into the squats. What got me was my glutes and spinal erectors, natch. As soon as I put the 135 on my back, oye! But, things actually got easier as the sets wore on, because those parts aren’t taxed as much in squatting as deadlifting. Still, I can tell this day is going to be a tough one. But that’s all good.
I have never done an ab wheel before, so I had no idea what I could do. Man, that’s hard. 🙂 I opted to do 5 across and see how that went. Was fine… need to get some sort of padding under my knees, but otherwise OK. I’ll probably go up to 7 reps across next time and just work my way up.
Happy with today, but man… this challenge is going to be well, challenging. I’m up for it.
Oh, I should add… I’m going to lay off the “Captains of Crush” hand grippers for a while. I seem to have something forming on the palm-side of one of my knuckles. Don’t know what it is, calcium deposit maybe? But it’s affecting my grip… it hurts, very tender. I’ve been living with it, observing things, but once I laid off the grippers things weren’t feeling so bad. I refuse to let my ability to deadlift or shoot a gun be curtailed, and I should be getting enough forearm and grip work in the program as it is. So for now, I’m going to lay off the grippers. I may come back to them later because it would be cool to crush a #2 or #3 (or even #4) someday. But they won’t be a regular part of my program for now.
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Cool to read that your starting the BBB challange put forth by Wendler, it will be interesting to follow.
I’d try it too, but alas this is my last cycle on 5/3/1 (cycle 3). Reason being that I’ve started to compete in powerlifting and the club coach wants to do my programming. I’ve seen the results that it has given so i’ve decided to accept. Will be strange to loose control over this. ^^
I want to see what it will do for me and what the end results will be like. Honestly, I’m not expecting to get that much bigger… a little but not much. But I am expecting that I’ll break some mental barriers, and I’ll probably have a higher tolerance for my weights in the assistance work and be lifting heavier on those. I think over the long haul (beyond the 3 months), that will pay bigger dividends.
The question I am wondering tho is… what are you to do after the challenge?
Anyways, that’s cool about starting competition. Yeah, you gotta go with what they offer, if it’s going to get the desired results. If nothing else, it’ll be a cool journey. 🙂 Good luck!
You’ll get bigger, but you might not notice it going from day to day in the mirror. I suggest taking before, during and after pictures of yourself and see when your done.
Well, I’ve been watching myself and taking some pictures since I started lifting. I do of course see some muscular growth, but it’s nothing like if I had taken on a bodybuilder routine. But that’s ok… I’d rather be stronger than big.