Therapists can lift too, guys.

I’m Mike - an Occupational Therapist in North Texas.
27, Male, 6 ft, 253.7 (as of this morning)

Started lifting in Nov of last year and ran through the linear progression but my deadlift never really got anywhere (started at 225, felt like I didn’t need chalk or wrist straps I’d just eventually get stronger). Got my squat up to 435 for 3 then gave in bought chalk and some wrist wraps and really focused on pulling too much the last 3 months but got my deadlift up to 415.

Last week was a deload for me to recover and this week I’m working on a H-L-M split to give that a try for the next 8 weeks. I also decided I’d post on here to try and keep track of progress.

I’m working on being more competitive in Judo - would do much better in the 100kg category someday - so I’m slowly working my way down (from 265) to that by eating an occasional vegetable that’s not baked into a slice of pizza and tracking calories and just getting as strong as I can without hurting myself in the process.

Best lifts are:
Squat - 435x3
Deadlift - 405x5
Press - 200x1
Bench press - 235x5 (Stopped doing these in favor of increased Press frequency after SS, so it’ll be the first time I’m doing these again since March).
Power Clean - 195x2

Morning walk - 30 min LISS (walk)

After work:
Heavy Day:
Low Bar Squat
135x5
225x5
315x5
405x5
425x5x2
425x3

Bench Press:
45x10
135x5
185x5
205x5x3

Deadlift
135x5
225x5
315x5 (Double Overhand for all 5 with no wraps for the first time)
425x3 (PR)

Tuesday - 10/10/17 -
Morning Walk - 30 min LISS - Fasted w/ coffee

Judo - 90 min

Wednesday - 10/11/17 -

Low Bar Squat
135, 225, 315 - 1x5
345 - 3x5

Overhead Press
135, 145, 1x5
155 - 3x3 - Planned to go up higher, but couldn’t get 5 in warm up so I stayed here. Working on keeping elbows in front of the bar at the bottom and reducing the moment arm at the wrist

Clean and Jerk -
135 - 4x1 - Not what I planned for these, probably still frustrated with trying to fix my press and gave up on these. Could have used some more volume and intensity.

Yesterday -
Walked (fasted) 35 min first thing in the morning.

Couldn’t make it to Judo yesterday.

Just in the interest of data (and because I have access to a hand dynamometer) I measured grip strength today - L - 120#, R - 145#.
Will be interested to track this as my Deadlift gets higher and I work on pulling more without straps.

10/13
Squat - No Belt
135, 225, 315 - 1x5
365 - 3x5

Push Press
135x5, 155x5, 185x4

Deadlift
225 1x5, 315 1x3
335 2x5, 1x3

10/16
Fasted 30 min walk with coffee- down to 251.9 this morning.

TIL @work - if you just move an ultrasound head faster it’s the same as using pulsed ultrasound. (It’s not, but that’s what an educated therapist said)

Squat
225, 315- 1x5 405 1x3
430 3x5

Bench Press
45, 135, 185 - 1x5
225 x2 - I’ll advised large jump, went back to a more reasonable jump
210 2x5

Deadlift
225, 315 1x5 405x1
430x3, +1 (Form broke down on the last one, decided to reset got one more and form was still terrible so I didn’t try for a fifth.)

10/17 -
30 min fasted walk
Judo - 90 min - Good workout - weighed out at 251.9 (Same as when I first woke up Tuesday morning)

10/18 -
Went to the gym before work because I have some errands to run later. That meant no walk this morning.

Squat -
135, 225, 315 - 1x5
345 - 3x5 - Felt really hard today. It wasn’t, and I did it but I felt like it was hard.

Press -
135, 1x5
155 3x5 - First set was hard, second set better, the last set actually felt really good.

Power clean -
135 - 2x2
155-2x2
185-2x1, 1x1 - Failed the second rep.

10/18/-
30 min fasted walk, Judo 90 min - pretty easy day a lot of technique.

10/19 -
Squat - 225, 315, 5x1
385 - 3x5

Barbell rows -
135 - 1x5
185 - 2x5

10/23 -
Squat - 225, 315, 405, 1x5
435 - 3x5

Bench Press
45, 135, 185- 1x5
215 - 1x4, 1x3
135 - 1x5 - focus on hip drive

Deadlift
225, 315 - 1x5
435 - 2x1

Planning to move my heavy deadlift to wednesday and potentially drop the weight slightly to try to get more than 2 or 3 without feeling like I’m going to puke.

10/24 -
30 min fasted walk -
Judo - 90 min, Randori (Live practice) - did about 75 min actual competition. Very tired after.

10/25 -
Still tired, just wanted to do something, needed to make sure I didn’t miss my pressing (i’m borderline too low on my press volume)
Overhead press - 45, 85, 105 - 1x5, 135,3x5

10/26 -
Judo - 90 min

10/27 -
Squat - 135, 225, 315, 1x5, 385, 3x5
Pin Press - Chin level - 135x5, 155x3, 175x1

251,1# this week starting out, 40.5 inch waist

10/30 -
Fasted walk - 30 min

Squat - 135, 225, 314, 405, 1x5 - 440 3x5
Bench Press - 45 - 2x5, 135 1x5, 185, 205, 215 - 1x5 each

PRed squat! been a long time coming.

10/31-
30 min fasted walk
2 mile run after work

11/1
Deadlift - 225, 315 - 1x5, 425 - 1, failed to break the bar off the ground the next four times. Not sure if this was a mental block or what but I felt like it was giving my all.

11/2
Judo 90 min - weighed out at 250.4 which i the lowest I’ve been since before running the NLP