New Squat & Deadlift Program

Week One — Day One Warm up: Band hip bridges: 4 x 25, red  band clamshell: 4 x 25, red seated leg curl: 4 x 25, 20 lbs Workout: Conventional deadlift: 5 x 5 x 70%, 215 lbs Barbell back squat: 5 x 5 x 70%, 155 lbs Superset: Barbell stiff legged deadlift: 5 xContinue reading “New Squat & Deadlift Program”

BEGREATGUYS, Inc post #3

Reward your hard work.    BUT    Don’t depend use your reward against you.   In a world where sometimes we need a little motivation and a great deal of discipline to accomplish our goals, we have to find the time to reward our hard work. Yes, I said “hard work” because no matter howContinue reading “BEGREATGUYS, Inc post #3”

Workout catch ups

To keep things simple, I will post all the workouts up to this point in this post, and separate them by dates, we stopped off at 4/19, so this will begin at 4/24 (which was the next time I hit up the gym).    4/24 Warm up:   Hip thrusters: 4 x 25, 20 lbsContinue reading “Workout catch ups”

Wednesday 1RM check (conventional deadlift)

So typically I do bench press on Wednesday’s but because I missed Tuesday (which was conventional deadlifts) I decided to do deadlifts today and wait to do bench press another day. Again, I tested my 1RM max with the conventional deadlift and excelled. My form could use some sprucing up and I will continue toContinue reading “Wednesday 1RM check (conventional deadlift)”

Making a friend & doing deadlifts

For starters, today was a good workout BUT to add to that, I had a fun conversation with a girl who attends my gym, her fiance does too, but she was working out this morning and had a leg day, it was the day she was starting to use the barbell for squats for theContinue reading “Making a friend & doing deadlifts”