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Hopefully I won't get injured again and have to not train in the foreseeable future...
My targets for Christmas time are:
Squats: 100kg (5x5)
Bench press (paused) - 70kg (5x5)
Barbell rows - 70kg (5x5)
Deadlifts - 130kg (1x5)
DB shoulder press - 24kg (4x8-12)

Is this realistic?

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Yes absolutely

them squats will get hard very quickly lol

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Squirb

In three months you could probably get up to a 3 plate squat so those should be realistic, yeah

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Reps4Jesus

Cheers guys

Hopefully i can stay injury free!

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Reps4Jesus

13/10/14

Squats: 55kg (5x5)
Standing DB press: 14kg (8,8,8,8)
Deadlifts: 90kg (1x5)
CGBP (paused) : 30kg (12,12,12)
Lat pulldowns (paused) : 45kg (10,10,10)
Curls

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Reps4Jesus

15/10/14

Squats - 57.5kg (5,5,5,5,8)
Bench (paused) - 45kg (5,5,5,5,10)
Barbell rows - 55kg (5,5,5,5,5) PB!
Rear delt flyes
Curls

Squats and bench still easy, squats will probably start getting difficult around the 65kg mark lol

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Reps4Jesus

17/10/14

Squats: 60kg (5,5,5,5,7)
OHP: 30kg (12,12,12,12)
Deadlifts: 102.5kg (5)

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a10

squats 60k, ohp 30k, deadlifts 102.5k? lol what....

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Angry cucumber

Original post by a10

squats 60k, ohp 30k, deadlifts 102.5k? lol what....

Not that surprising considering he's only just started squatting

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a10

Original post by Angry cucumber

Not that surprising considering he's only just started squatting

Hmm..

One good thing I've noticed about strong lifts is that ever since I started it (i've now been doing it for 4 weeks) my legs have gotten way more toned from squatting and am starting to get them nice tear drop shapes in my quads...shoulders are coming out nicely from OH pressing too. I'm impressed so far shoulda done this sh#t ages ago but hey we all start somewhere :colondollar:

keep it up Reps4J!

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Reps4Jesus

Cheers

My OHP 5x5 is obviously a lot stronger but I'm doing high reps just now until I have my shoulder problems properly diagnosed.

4 sets of 12 feels amazing in the shoulders haha

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a10

Original post by Reps4Jesus

ohp gets really hard you'll be glad when you finish the 5 reps. I've been stuck at 5/5/5/4/4 at 40kg for almost a month now :/ going to get 5x5 next session I hope lol probably not eating enough...but its definitely a really hard lift to get good at especially if you're doing strict pressing and no knee bouncing.

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Reps4Jesus

Original post by a10

Yeh I've done 42.5kg for 5x5 before but heavy weight low reps for shoulders is pretty sore for me unfortunately

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Reps4Jesus

20/10/14

Squats - 62.5kg (5x5)
Bench press (paused) - 55kg (5x5)
Rows - 55kg (5x5)

Squats are still easy
Bench is getting reasonable difficult, should hit 2 plates paused in two bench sessions hopefully
Forgot to add weight to rows damn lol

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Scoobiedoobiedo

2plates? Jumping from 55kg to 100kg in two sessions would be impressive :tongue:

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Reps4Jesus

Original post by Scoobiedoobiedo

2plates? Jumping from 55kg to 100kg in two sessions would be impressive :tongue:

Haha if only :P

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Angry cucumber

You mean one plate mate

Nice going, gainz

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The_Blade

Original post by Reps4Jesus

Started uni and there's an awesome gym so I'm going to start doing stronglifts when I get my membership sorted out...

What accessory exercises should I do? I can't do dips due to shoulder problems and chins due to elbow problems..

I'm thinking hammer curls, tricep extensions and rear felt flies?

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What uni

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