kjake55
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- Jun 11, 2012
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It was suggested that a throw a journal on here and the more I thought about it the more I liked the idea. I already keep one on another forum so essentially I will cut & paste between the two. For those of you who join me here Hi! 
If you do stop by please comment and critique at will. Good or bad opinions are always welcome. I’m enjoy getting outside perspective on what I am doing and if I’m moving in the right direction to meet my goals.
A little background about me to get started with. In May of 2009 I decided it was time to quit smoking. I had a 2-pack a day habit. I had been smoking since I was a teen so were talking about a 25+ year habit. OMG am I really old enough to have had a 25+ year habit?!? How the hell did that happen! Anyway I also weighed 198 lbs at that point which I’m sad to say wasn’t the heaviest I ever weighed. Point being I didn’t want to gain the “I quit smoking pounds” so I kept a close eye on what I was eating. I wound up losing 9 lbs on my own. After that I joined Weight Watchers and lost an additional 53 lbs. Problem was that at 134 I was skinny/fat although I didn’t quite know it yet. I got into working out, originally with a Crossfit trainer and then when he closed the box I moved onto a power lifting gym where I have made my home for the last 3 years. It’s an “ole skool” place where you work, you grunt, you sweat and you go the fuk home to eat! No cardio bunnies, muscle heads or any of the other crap that goes on in commercial chain gyms. I love the place. It’s a garage grunge gym and exactly my style. Eventually I left WW and now I plan my nutrition around IIFYM. I don’t restrict myself from anything except dairy (lactose intolerant) and have been fairly successful in my weight management.
It wasn’t until this last year that I competed and in that regard I am a complete newb. My first competition was a Bench meet for charity. I won the women’s division but in the interest of full disclosure I was the only woman lifting so it was more a personal victory for just being there than anything else. It did give me the bug though. I’m extremely goal orientated and competing is a natural progression from that.
I am currently training for a USAPL meet in August (push/pull) where I assume I won’t be the only woman lifting! I’m currently cutting so I can compete in the 67.5 kg weight class. This morning’s scale weight was 146.9 so I’m where I need to be. I’ll continue my cut until the end of the month. And then thank God, I’ll do maintenance until the meet (I hate cutting more than anything in the world!) Afterwards I plan on doing a 2-year recomp. By age 50 I want to have a concrete body! Esthetics are always a motivator but my real goal is to be strong and beastly on the platform. The actual scale weight is irrelevant to me except for competition weight class purposes.
I’m in my 3rd week of a Basic Strength Cycle. Before that I completed 4 weeks Hypertrophy. When I’m done I have 1 week of SP/P and then a 6-week comp cycle which is based on the Russian progressive training cycles. I have a trainer who constructs all my programs for me. I’ll post videos to give interested parties a base level look at what my abilities are to date.
To wrap this up I’ll leave with some recent PR’s, achievements and goals that I am striving for by year’s end:
• Bench: 110 (x3) PR 6/11/12 ~ Goal=Body weight
• Deadlift: 2-Plates (x1) PR 6/3/12 ~ Goal=3 Plates
• Squat: 140 (x3) ATG 5/30/12 ~ Goal=2 Plates
• OHP: 70 lbs (x3) ~ Goal=1 Plate (I would be ecstatic to get there!)
• Leg Press: 410 (x5) PR ~ No Goal I just like pushing lots and lots of weight with my legs
• Unassisted Pull Ups: 2 so far (3 w/neutral grip) ~ Goal 10
If you bothered to read all of this, thank you! I hope to get to know some of you better as we journey along. :-h
If you do stop by please comment and critique at will. Good or bad opinions are always welcome. I’m enjoy getting outside perspective on what I am doing and if I’m moving in the right direction to meet my goals.A little background about me to get started with. In May of 2009 I decided it was time to quit smoking. I had a 2-pack a day habit. I had been smoking since I was a teen so were talking about a 25+ year habit. OMG am I really old enough to have had a 25+ year habit?!? How the hell did that happen! Anyway I also weighed 198 lbs at that point which I’m sad to say wasn’t the heaviest I ever weighed. Point being I didn’t want to gain the “I quit smoking pounds” so I kept a close eye on what I was eating. I wound up losing 9 lbs on my own. After that I joined Weight Watchers and lost an additional 53 lbs. Problem was that at 134 I was skinny/fat although I didn’t quite know it yet. I got into working out, originally with a Crossfit trainer and then when he closed the box I moved onto a power lifting gym where I have made my home for the last 3 years. It’s an “ole skool” place where you work, you grunt, you sweat and you go the fuk home to eat! No cardio bunnies, muscle heads or any of the other crap that goes on in commercial chain gyms. I love the place. It’s a garage grunge gym and exactly my style. Eventually I left WW and now I plan my nutrition around IIFYM. I don’t restrict myself from anything except dairy (lactose intolerant) and have been fairly successful in my weight management.
It wasn’t until this last year that I competed and in that regard I am a complete newb. My first competition was a Bench meet for charity. I won the women’s division but in the interest of full disclosure I was the only woman lifting so it was more a personal victory for just being there than anything else. It did give me the bug though. I’m extremely goal orientated and competing is a natural progression from that.
I am currently training for a USAPL meet in August (push/pull) where I assume I won’t be the only woman lifting!
I’m currently cutting so I can compete in the 67.5 kg weight class. This morning’s scale weight was 146.9 so I’m where I need to be. I’ll continue my cut until the end of the month. And then thank God, I’ll do maintenance until the meet (I hate cutting more than anything in the world!) Afterwards I plan on doing a 2-year recomp. By age 50 I want to have a concrete body! Esthetics are always a motivator but my real goal is to be strong and beastly on the platform. The actual scale weight is irrelevant to me except for competition weight class purposes.I’m in my 3rd week of a Basic Strength Cycle. Before that I completed 4 weeks Hypertrophy. When I’m done I have 1 week of SP/P and then a 6-week comp cycle which is based on the Russian progressive training cycles. I have a trainer who constructs all my programs for me. I’ll post videos to give interested parties a base level look at what my abilities are to date.
To wrap this up I’ll leave with some recent PR’s, achievements and goals that I am striving for by year’s end:
• Bench: 110 (x3) PR 6/11/12 ~ Goal=Body weight
• Deadlift: 2-Plates (x1) PR 6/3/12 ~ Goal=3 Plates
• Squat: 140 (x3) ATG 5/30/12 ~ Goal=2 Plates
• OHP: 70 lbs (x3) ~ Goal=1 Plate (I would be ecstatic to get there!)
• Leg Press: 410 (x5) PR ~ No Goal I just like pushing lots and lots of weight with my legs
• Unassisted Pull Ups: 2 so far (3 w/neutral grip) ~ Goal 10
If you bothered to read all of this, thank you! I hope to get to know some of you better as we journey along. :-h
