Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Intermittent Fasting Workout week 9 d1 - w10 d1



During the past few workouts, I reached my transition point moving from a goal of
doing 5 sets of 5 reps to 3 sets of 5 reps. So the weights are starting to get heavy again.
Since I'm fasting and having only a small amount of calories pre-workout,
I found that I was runing out of energy (glycogen) and I could not get the desired 5 reps
on squats. So in the next workout that included deadlifts I made sure to eat my carbs a few hours
before working out. That seemed to make a difference and I was able to get more reps in.
Now I'm going to stick with squats at 305 until I feel comfortable that my form
is good again, before increasing the weight.

Log sept 17 2012

Weight 180.5
Bf 14.4

My IF plan w9 d1

#Squat
5x5@265

#Standing Overhead Press
5x5@130

#Deadlift
3x5@265

#pullup
3x5@35





Log Sep 19 2012

Weight 181
Bf

My IF plan w9 d2

#Squat
3x5@285

#Bench press
5x5@205


#Pendlay row
3x5@185


#Dip
3x5@50




Log sept 21 2012

Weight 181.5
Bf 13.4

My IF plan w9 d3

#Squat
3x3@305

#Standing Overhead Press
3x5@145

#Deadlift
1x5@315
2x3@315

#chinup
3x5@40




Log Sep 24 2012

Weight 179
Bf 13.5

My IF plan w10 d1

#Squat
2x5@305
1x3@305

#Bench press
3x5@210


#Pendlay row
3x5@190


#Dip
3x5@55


Monday, September 17, 2012

Intermediate Fasting Plan week 8


I'm feeling good being back to working out in the 5 rep range. I feel like the time I spent working out
at the higher rep ranges has helped my endurance/recovery between sets. So far I've still been able to keep the
rest between sets at about 1min 30 seconds. I'm feeling pretty strong too I won't know for sure until I work back up to
my previous maxes.

Log sept 12 2012

Weight 181
Bf

My IF plan w8 d2

#Squat
4x5@235
Knee felt funny on 4th set so I stopped

#Standing Overhead Press
5x5@125

#Deadlift
5x5@245

#chinup
1x7@30
2x5@30
1x3.5@50


Log Sep 14 2012

Weight 183
Bf 14

My IF plan w8 d3

#Squat
3x5@245

#Bench press
5x5@195


#Pendlay row
3x5@165


#Dip
3x5@45

Log Sep 10 2012


Log Sep 10 2012

Weight 182
Bf14.3

My IF plan w8 d1

This was my first workout in the 5 rep range in a long time. Its good to get back to it. Now I'm just hoping to get some PRs at the high end.

#Squat
5x5@225

#Bench press
5x5@185


#Pendlay row
5x10@155


#Dip
3x5@40

Monday, September 10, 2012

Intermittent Fasting workout weeks 4 - 7


Its been a few weeks since my last posts. I keep all of my logs on my phone and I had to restore my phone and I ended up loosing a weeks worth of logs. 

I've continued to do Intermittent Fasting with my bodyfat getting down to 13.3% at its lowest so far. 


Log Aug 15 2012

( aug 14, 181lb, 16%bf)

Weight 181
Bf 15.4

My IF plan w4 d2

Skipped squats

#Squat
0x15@120

#Bench press
5x15@115


#Pendlay row
5x15@105

#Dip
1x25
1x18
1x16



Log aug 17 2012

Weight 181.5
Bf 14.9

My IF plan w4 d3

#Squat
3x15@120

#Standing Overhead Press
1x15,11,15@75

Skipped deads

#Deadlift
0x15@135

#Chinup
1x15
1x12
1x8





Log Aug 20 2012

Weight 180
Bf 15.4
Rest times avg 1.5 min
My IF plan w5 d1

Squat
3x15@135

Bench press
3x15@125


Pendlay row
2x15@115
1x10,1,1,1,1,1@115

Dip
1x25
1x20
1x17



Log aug 27 2012

Weight 181.5
Bf 14.6

My IF plan w6 d1

#Squat
3x10@135

#Standing Overhead Press
3x10@90

#Deadlift
3x10@185

#Pullup
1x10@25
1x8@25
1x6@25




Log Aug 29 2012

Weight 182
Bf
Rest times avg 1.5 min
My IF plan w6 d2

#Squat
5x10@190

#Bench press
4x10@155


#Pendlay row
3x10@140


#Dip
3x10@30



Log aug 31 2012

Weight 182.5
Bf 13.5

My IF plan w6 d3

#Squat
3x10@195

#Standing Overhead Press
3x10@95

#Deadlift
3x10@1m95

#chinup
2x10@25
1x7@25



log sep 3 2012

I skipped  my workout this day since it was a holiday

Weight 180
Bodyfat 13.9



Log Sep 5 2012

Weight 180

Rest times avg 1.5 min
My IF plan w7 d1

#Squat
3x10@200

#Bench press
3x10@160


#Pendlay row
3x10@145


#Dip
3x10@35






Log sept 7 2012

Weight 181
Bf 13.3

My IF plan w7 d2

#Squat
3x10@205

#Standing Overhead Press
3x10@100

#Deadlift
3x10@225

#pullup
2x10@25
1x8@25




Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Intermittent Fasting Workout week 3 - 4


Here are my last three workout logs.
In the first workout I was trying to find out what weight to use as the max weight for
15 rep squats and over head presses.

In general I'm doing a 2 week 15 rep phase.
as part of a longer term plan to split 6-8 weeks of training into 15,10,5, and 3 rep
phases.

I'm slowly adjusting to doing 15 reps. It feels like there is a huge jump
between doing 10 reps vs doing 15 reps.

Log aug 8 2012

Weight 183
Bf 15.1

My IF plan w3 d2

Squat
1x15@135,145,155,160
1x10@165

Ohp
1x11@85
1x10@85
1x6@85

Deadlift skipped
0x5@255

Chinup
1x13
1x11
1x10


Log Aug 10 2012

Weight 183.5
Bf 15.2

Squat
5x15@100

Bench
5x15@105


row
5x15@95

Dip
1x25
1x20
2x16


Log aug 13 2012

Weight 182
Bf 14.8

My IF plan w4 d1

Squat
5x15@110

Ohp
3x15@65

Deadlift
3x15@135

Pullup
1x15
1x12
1x8

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Trying out Intermittent Fasting


So I had been doing some reading about Intermittent Fasting as described on the  the leangains (http://www.leangains.com)  blog. I decided to give it a try to get my bodyfat back down from %16 to %12 as my first goal. I started by doing the 16 hour fast with an 8 hour feeding window.

In my first few workouts the thing that I noticed was that I could lift the same amount of weight, but I did not have the energy to do as many reps at that same weight.

In about a week and a half I lost about 1.2% of my bodyfat. However, I seem to be able to gain that back in a day or so of eating too many calories. I'm continuing to tweak my diet to try to get enough protein on workout days, and not over eat on non workout days.

Log july 25 2012

My plan w13 d2

Squat skipped this ex
1x2@325
1x0@325
1x0@325


Ohp
1x3@155
1x4@155
1x3@155

Deadlift
3x8@245

Pullup
3x10

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Log July 27 2012

Weight 184.5
Bf 15.4

Squat
1x1@325
1x2@325
1x1@325


Bench
2x5@225
1x4@225


row
3x5@170

Dip
1x20
2x13

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Log july 30 2012

My plan w14 d2

Squat
3x1@325


Ohp
1x3@155
1x3@155
1x2@155

Deadlift
3x8@250

Chinup
1x10
1x7
1x8
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Log Aug 1 2012

Weight 184.5
Bf 14.9

Squat skipped to let knees rest
1x1@325
1x2@325
1x1@325


Bench
2x5@225
1x4@225


row
3x5@175

Dip
1x25
2x15

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Log aug 3 2012

Weight 183 (aug 4)
Bf 14.8

My plan w14 d3

Squat
3x10@225


Ohp
1x3@155
1x3@155
1x3@155

Deadlift
3x5@255

Pullup
1x12
1x11
1x10

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Log Aug 6 2012

Weight 184
Bf 15.9

Squat skipped
1x1@185


Bench
1x15@135
1x11@155
1x12@145
1x10@135
1x9@135

row
3x15@135

Dip
1x25
2x15

weeks 10 - 13 of my own plan


Log July 6 2012

My plan w10 d2

Squat
3x3@325


Bench
5x5@205

row
5x5@145

Dip
1x25
1x20
1x15


Oot
Rev crunch
3x12

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Log july 9 2012

My plan w11 d1

Squat
1x5@325
1x2@325
1x3@325


Ohp
3x5@145

Deadlift
3x8@215

Chinup
2x10
1x9
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Log July 11 2012

My plan w11 d2

Squat
2x4@325
1x3@325


Bench
3x5@210
1x4@210
1x5@210

row
3x5@155

Dip
1x25
1x29
1x15
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Log july 13 2012

My plan w11 d3

Squat - skip to let knees recover
1x5@325
1x2@325
1x3@325


Ohp
1x3@150
1x5@150
1x3@150

Deadlift
3x8@225

Pullup
3x10

Calf raises
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Log July 16 2012

My plan w12 d1

Squat
0x4@325
0x3@325


Bench
5x5@215


row
3x5@160

Dip
1x20
1x20
1x12
--------------------------------------------
Log july 20 2012

My plan w12 d2

Squat
1x2@325
1x0@325
1x0@325


Ohp
1x4@155
1x3@155
1x3@155

Deadlift
3x8@235

Chinup
2x10
1x7


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Log July 23 2012

My plan 13 d1

Squat
1x2@325
2x1@325


Bench
3x5@220


row
3x5@165

Dip
1x20
1x20
1x15