The Jungle

[400Lb Gorilla]

5/3/1 Wave 2 Week 1
Bench Day
Weight: Fatter than the Devil's Dick

Benchpress
45x15
95x12
135x10
185x8
235x5 vid
270x5 vid
305x5 vid

CG Benchpress
305x2 vid
275x3
275x3
275x3
225x5
225x5

BB Curls
45x15
65x12
65x12
65x12
75x12


Not too shabby but I had to go mow my grass so no time for anything else Stupid home owner problems

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

5/3/1 Wave 2 Week 1
Deadlift Day

Deadlifts
225x8
275x8
315x5
370x5
425x5
480x5

Pullup, chinups, and db curls followed. I was going to toss overhead press in with today's work but after a long work day and the heat, I could not get up the motivation.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

5/3/1 Wave 2 Week 1
Press and Squats
Weight: 231 pounds

Press
45x12
95x8
135x5
150x5 vid
175x5 vid
195x5 vid

Squat
135x8
185x8
225x5
260x5
300x5
340x6

A lot of different rehab/prehab/mobility work on the shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles.

Not much today since I had some household chores.... which consisted of replacing the blades on my lawnmower and then awesomely owning the shit out of my yard with precision and authority. My weight class seems to have increased lately lol. Yesterday I weighed in on our shipping scale at work and I am over 230 again!!!! Honestly this was a nice surprise. I have been leaning out a little lately and I thought I was going to be getting back under 215. To find out I can still afford to lose a lot more weight and still be in the "big underwear model" class was nice lol.

I will be taking it easy on squats for a while and building my way back up, hopefully quickly.


As for the rest of the time from here on, I got some busy shit coming up.
First, I start school again Monday. This is my final run towards my MBA.
Second, I started my own little bidness a week or so ago. It is just a personal financial adviser thing where I contract for a company. Pretty decent set-up and it is all commission based so I got to get my hustle on to make some money lol.
Third, my actual job is increasing the hell out of our work hours lately so as far as working out, I am going to try to get in the work when I can.

That is all. Thanks for reading

 

[BrotherIron]

Glad to hear your weight is holding out with all that going on.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Thanks BI, it is not too bad right now. I am studying to get my licenses so it will not really get busy until after I have that

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

lol sorry about the odd camera thing in the deadlift video
and the lighting thing in pretty much all videos, I was playing with the camera trying to get the best picture

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

5/3/1 Wave 2 Week 2
Bench Day

Benchpress
45x20+
95x15
135x10
185x5
250x3 vid
285x3 vid
320x3 vid

Incline DB Press
45x10
135x10
185x8
185x8
185x8

DB Flyes
25x12
35x12
35x12
35x12

Chin-ups
BWx8
***Was not into these today

DB Curls
35x7
25x8
25x8
25x8

Not too shabby. Had work this morning, but actually got off at a decent time so I got some A/C half-ass pumping into the garage for this one. I am headed to the campground tomorrow and Tuesday, got school Wednesday, and got some appointments Thursday and Friday. I got my prelicensing class on Saturday and Sunday so this is probably the ONLY workout for the week I will try to get the big lifts in if I get a moment, but adult life is sucking right now

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

5/3/1 Wave 1 Week 2
Deads and Presses
Weight: 232 pounds
***Weighing in at work these days lol

Deadlift
135x8
225x8
315x5
395x3
455x3
505x3 vid

Press
45x10
95x8
135x5
160x3
185x3
205x3

Not too bad. 505x3 felt heavy as hell but I think it had more to do with me wanting to rush through these sets.
Presses were alright but the third rep of 205 was a struggle.
It was not a great day for lifting but it was the only time I have had to get any lifting in. Going to try squatting tomorrow.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Not working out this week lol. It is 108 degrees in my little gym and yesterday it felt even hotter. I will get some work in if I can this week but the heat is killing it all right now.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Alright I got tired of waiting for the weather to get any cooler, so I picked to start working out again... today... it was 106 degrees in my garage... much fun, much sweat.

5/3/1 Wave 2 Week 3
Benchpress and Press Day
Weight: 231 pounds

Benchpress
45x15
95x15
135x12
185x10
225x8
275x5 vid
305x3 vid
340x1 vid

Press
45x8
95x8
135x5
175x5 vid
195x3 vid
220x1
220x0 vid

Chinups
BWx8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9

BB Curls
45x10
45x12
65x7
65x6
45x8
45x7

Not too bad. I was going to do more upper back work, but I am going to try and squeeze squats and deadlifts in tomorrow.

Also, as of right now I am scheduled to head up to Connecticut on Monday! It is only a week long visit, and I will be back by Friday, but I am hoping to find a gym up there that will let me get a couple of workouts in without a hassle. If not, I will be deloading next week... even tthough I deloaded last week lol

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Alright the Connecticut trip was fairly awesome lol. Had some fun in the northeast, worked like a dog, and still got some workouts in, although they were brief. I took last week off mostly due to work and I needed to catch a breather. This week I am working with some kind of weird ache in my shoulder that only acts up when I pull with the arm, like rows. So lots of shoulder rehab this week

Enough crying about the shoulder, I will work through it unless it gets worse or does not go away.

Starting over with 5/3/1 for now. I only have 6 weeks until school is over for good so I will go another round with this until I have more free time.

5/3/1 Wave 1 Week 1
Bench Day

Benchpress
45x17
95x12
135x7
185x7
230x5
265x5
300x5
****Shoulder ached at the bottom of each rep starting around the 265 set so I went for minimum reps. I had another 2 easy.

Shrugs
135x12
185x12
185x12
185x12
205x12
205x12

BB Curls
45x10
65x8
65x8
75x8
75x8

Not too bad. I tried to do some chinups after the benchpress but it took the ache to a a sharp pain so I am laying off on that. I think I strained something in the "side" delt. Probably at work while doing something stupidly heavy and awkward. The shrugs and curls were just to do something since my plan was to kind of keep doing a push/pull thing. Anyway, hoping I get some skwatz in tomorrow and that goes without an issue.

 

[400Lb Gorilla]

Just a vid of some of the stuff from a few weeks ago