Back at it

Back at strength training.  I have motivation flowing through me and knowledge of what NOT to do this time around.

Less 70′s Big, more Chaos and Pain.  My programming will be loosely structured but borrow a bit from SS:BBT, CnP, Dan John, EC and a bunch of other stuff I come across.  Obviously the basics won’t change…big lifts, regular (but not pre-programmed) progressions, etc.  Heavy on squats, deads, and presses.  Ancillary bench/db  bench work, intermittent carries, O lifts, things like that.  Sets/reps will most likely be 5′s or less, sets of 3-5 depending on how a particular lift is going.  For example, Today:

• Low Bar Back Squat 3x5x175 (felt ok, really trying to concentrate on tightness through the body, chest up)
• Press 5x5x115
• Rack Pulls 365 2×2 from right at knee.

I planned on pressing 3×5 but ended up doing this rather well so went for 5×5 that was oddly easy.  I can’t remember the last time I pressed 115 with little fanfare.   I thought there was something wrong with me.

Managing recovery will be a bigger challenge than actually lifting.  Going to stay with moderate carb; starchy carb mainly from potatoes and some rice.  Minimal, if any wheat products.  Otherwise, high protein-high fat.  The shit carbs did me in last time and made me a fat fuck, thus not going to even bother with that this time around.  No donuts, cookies, candy, sweets outside of the occasional splurge on a milkshake or something worth eating.  The less fat I put on, the less that needs to come off later.

Mentally, I’ll have no douche trainers to talk to, no jackasses taking up space in the squat rack…really none of that.  I’ve set myself up in an environment where I stay in the corner away from everyone else and people leave me the fuck alone.  It’s a few steps below training in a garage gym, but about as close to antisocial as i can get actually going somewhere to lift.  I thought about joining a second, more meathead-ish gym to feed off of the energy of gorillas and the muscular fitness chick types, but it hasn’t happened yet but may very well after the weather turns shitty and I’m feeling a desire to be around people.

Effeminate, corporate gyms are out.  Forever.