Adam Marciniak's Log - Mechanical Engineer Training for My First Meet

These are my deets yo:

Male, 26yrs , 190 lbs 6ft. Waist measurement to come once I find my tape measure.

Bit of background:
Started SSLP when I was 22-23 and 145 lbs. In a few short months I got my lifts up to:
Sq : 265 , Bench: 165, Press: 115, DL: 285 . Didn’t do powercleans.
After that, I sort of stagnated and strayed at those numbers for a bit just grinding and maintaining. Got a new job at 25 and was less consistent with the training. I’d go to the gym maybe twice a week or once. Then it puttered out into no times per week. I was still trying to push my novice LP at the time and I guess I was just dreading my workouts. I associated them with pain and suffering lol.
This summer, I went on a vacation for two months and didn’t train at all. Started reading more stuff from BBM and listening to the podcasts and it’s motivated me to change my idea about lifting and proper programming. The SS culture over there on their forums was starting to become mean.

So now I’ve chosen to start back up again with the novice LP for a few weeks mixed in with some beginner prescription parts for certain lifts. I’m also tracking my RPE and getting used to the whole concept.

First day:

Monday August 12
Woke up 6 am sharp, bolused down overnight oats and protein. Really cold and super gross. Had some coffee as well. Had the shits later that day :frowning: Not sure if this was the cause.

Squat
135 x 3x5 RPE 7?
Had some discomfort in left shoulder. Haven’t held a barbell on my back like this for a while lol.

Bench
105 3x5 RPE 7?
Right wrist had some slight discomfort and pain. Felt fine after lift was done.

Deadlift
155 1x5 RPE 7
145 1x6 RPE 7
145 1x7 RPE 8
Not exactly novice LP style. Decided to look at the beginner prescription halfway into it. I originally planned to do 1x5 but decided more volume would be better from what I’ve heard from BBM and the beginner prescription.

All in all, a good day. I was super sore the next day from DOMs. Gym time was around 40 minutes.

August 14 2019
Wednesday

The DOMs is too real. I thought yesterday was bad, I could barely squat out of my bed (my mattress is on the ground at the moment). Decided to sleep in a bit more, I don’t start work till next week anyways.
Had a regular breakfast and did a bunch of bodyweight squats to get my legs functioning better haha.

Got to the gym at around 10am this day.
After a few warmups of squats with the empty bar, my legs were feeling much more functional.

Squat
145 x 5 RPE 7?
145 x 5 RPE 7?
145 x 5 RPE 7?
Shoulders felt better now. Still sore from benching. not sure if true RPE of 7 but just noting it down now.

Press
65 x 5 RPE ?
65 x 5 RPE 7?
65 x 5 RPE 8?
I was much weaker in my presses than I thought I’d be. I’ll probably switch over to beginner prescription soon for these since I would usually struggle at 90 lbs and grind away.

Deadlift
155 x 7 RPE 8?
155 x 7 RPE 9?
144 x 7 RPE 8
Messed up the loading on these. I didn’t follow the beginner RX properly and chose a weight that was too high. Lowered it down to keep the RPE ok.
Seems like progress from last workout though. More reps in.

I hope the soreness goes away soon.