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I am happy to say I survived the first month of the year without any injuries and consistently trained (either cardio or resistance) everyday of the month. Hit a milestone yesterday. I was at 315 for 5 reps on deadlifts in Dec. 2006 prior to my neck surgery and was hoping to be back to at least that on my 1 year anniversary (surgery) on April 4, 2008. Well, I did it yesterday! Not real pretty but I pulled it all 5 reps. Now I am going to concentrate on my form before increasing the weight. Hope to post a video of this in a couple of weeks. I have also seen a tremendous increase in my chest and tricep stength as well. On flat bench barbell press, I was at 285 for 5 reps, 240 for 10 reps back in Dec. 2006. On last Saturday I did 240 for 7 reps. This is a huge increase from post neck surgery when the doc released me to start lifting again. I was struggling to get 65-75 for 8-10 reps.
I am finishing up the 4th week of my 5 x 5 program tomorrow and I am going to see how many times I can get 245 on my top set of flat bench press. At the beginning of the year I did a 5RM test and was struggling on the 5th rep with 245. Squatting is not going as well as I had anticipated but the strength is definitely improving. I am going to have to remain patient with this.
4 weeks out from the Arnold and I am getting excited! Can’t wait to load up on all the freebies! Just now running out of the last of my freebies from the Olympia and that was 4 months ago!
Hope everyone has a terrific Superbowl weekend (Go Giants) and don’t overindulge on the junk food as most of America will! I will definitely be keeping it clean and not end up with the Monday blues from regret. Thanks for stopping by and hope to see some of you next month at the Arnold!
February 1, 2008 at 10:42 am
way to go man sounds liek things are going good. i too have been hitting the gym every day in jan. i know what its like to keep the disiplin to get there every day so just hope you and i can keep up the work. well ttyl
February 1, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Way to go Bobby!
February 2, 2008 at 10:15 am
Glad things are going well. Stay healthy and good luck. PS. Sorry I’m a Patriots fan. Most of us here in Boston are.
February 6, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Glad to hear that you’ve managed to keep the doctors at bay so far this year! Don’t let ‘em anywhere near you! LOL Great progress there. How’s the studying?