ConorM93

Hi guys This is my first challenge, hopefully I drive the lifting numbers up and everything goes great here! Main quest: Lift a lot I guess? I have a figure in mind for the next six weeks (see below) but I won't post anything long-term, cause I just know I'm gonna satisfy it, and then not be happy and try to go heavier again Task 1: Increase Wilks: Currently, based off my 3x5 work sets (I haven't really tested my 1RM's yet), which are 90kg squat 57.5 bench, 120 dead @85.2kg BW, I have a 175.88 Wilks. I want my work sets giving 225.88 by the end of the challenge. (Thats an increase of 50 points, and an increase of about 75kg on my total). Hopefully this will be distributed so I'll be hitting somewhere around: 120kg Squat 72.5kg Bench 150kg Deadlift Although as long as I hit the wilks I'll be pretty happy I'll grade based on the percent I make. Task 2: Brotein Gotta track my macros if I wanna hit this, especially when I'm still pretty skinny for my height. I'll bulk once the stalls come, but before that, I wanna make sure I can recover, and that means brotein. 160g a day every day. I'll update and grade based on how many days I hit it. Task 3: Sleep Sleep is good. Very good. 8+ hours five days a week. Why five? Cause I'm a college student, and its not gonna happen all the time, and I'm okay with that. Grading based on how many days I make this. Life goal: Studying for my DELE exam I'm doing a Spanish exam soon as I want to go to South America next summer to work... with that in mind, I'll need to speak Spanish. A lot. Goal is to make spanish (or fluent-speaking) friends and speak with them for at least 3 hours a week. Its 3 hours a week more than I'm doing now anyway! Hopefully all goes well, lets find out!

Hmm, this whole "Deadlift every day" thing is getting to just be too hard, its about time to move on I think! Although I might have 1/2 more workouts in me. On a side note, training might be sporadic next week, back to college for orientation week, I'll be busy as hell, I'll try to make time for it though! No excuses, etc! Squats: Barxlots 45x5 65x3 80x1 90kgx5x3 Bench Press: Barxlots 35x5 47.5x3 57.5kgx5x3 Deadlift: 60kgx5 85x3 105x1 120kgx5 Weight: 85.2kg Current Total (at 5RMS): 90+57.5+120 = 267.5kg Wilks today: 175.88 Gain in wilks: +6.57 So I guess I'll sort of be abandoning this for the time of the challenge? Presumably thats what people who have a log on this forum do? Anything important will probably be on my challenge log from now on... so come find me on the level one forum

Another fun day, the novelty still hasn't worn off yet Squat: Barxlots 45x5 65x3 87.5x5x3 3 mins rest (thats after each work set) Press: Barxlots 30x4 37.5x2 42.5x5x3 (last rep a serious grind) 3 mins rest (as above) Deadlift: 60x5 85x3 100x1 115kgx5 Weight: 85.2 Current Total (at 5RMS): 87.5+55+115 = 257.5kg Wilks today: 169.31 Gain in wilks: +5.16

Awesome day today. Squats: Barxlots 40x5 60x3 85kgx5x3 Bench: Barxlots 35x5 45x3 55kgx5x3 Both 3 mins rest DL: 60kgx5 85x3 95x1 110x5 Hope you guys are keeping well, I know I'm feeling good after this Decided to check my Wilks points after each workout, just for something else more fun to track. 9/September: 164.15 (250 lifted at 85.4)

Yeah, I am!

6 September: Squat: Barxlots 40x4 60x3 82.5kgx5x3 Press: Barxlots 30x4 35x3 40x5x2 42.5x5 (couldn't get 1.25s until then, in a rush so couldn't wait, will do 42.5 next time) Deadlift: 60x5 80x3 105kgx5 Loved it today, glad I wasn't too tired from the previous days. Deadlifts felt great as well, back when I lifted first I always struggled with them, really feel like I'm cracking them now though!

Was out last night so couldn't update this. 4 September: Squats: Barxlots 40x5 60x3 80kgx5x3 Bench: Barxlots 30x5 40x3 52.5kgx5x3 DL: 60x5 80x3 100kgx5 3 mins rest on all. Everything still feeling great, trying to live it up for a bit before I start approaching my old 5RM's and things start getting really difficult again! Hoping friday won't be too hard, out with college friends, very little sleep, lots of alcohol etc etc. I'm finding it easy enough atm though so hopefully that will carry me over friday and I'll be properly recovered next week. Cya until then

How does it compare to 4? I only have 4, and love it atm, been addicted to it for far too long, though I've some people say that V isn't as good compared...?

Its leading to 135 and beyond Nice work, keep it up, nothing like nice round numbers!

Hey guys, I'm Conor and its awesome to be here I'm 19 years old, nearly 20, and I'm a maths student out in Ireland and I love it a lot. I've loved maths all my life and I want to end up going down the academic route when I finish college! So I spend a lot of my time with that, fiddling around with problems and such. Recently I've gotten a lot more drive in my life and its something I love. I've been studying for a scholarship exam in January in my university thats really important to me, worth about 6000 euro and a free apartment for 5 years, and I want to make sure I've given it my best once the exam period rolls around. Past that, I want to go away this summer to South America (probably Argentina) and work there so I'm also working hard on Spanish, trying to get my C1 DELE before then. Apart from all this, I love reading, stuff like Neal Stephenson and right now I've gotten some weird obsession with reading out the New York Mafia. I don't know either Really interesting though! Gaming is kind of a big one too, I love Smash Bros and basically all rhythm games. I've become a bit of a Film/TV nerd recently too, and right now love Mad Men and of course Breaking Bad. So the site is called Nerd FITNESS, I'll get to that now . I'm an aspiring powerlifter, and after having a brief dalliance with Olympic Weightlifting, decided it wasn't for me and powerlifting was what I truly loved. So I'm working hard on that, and check out my Battle Log for more details http://nerdfitnessrebellion.com/index.php?/topic/36184-here-goes/ So guys, thats all and I hope to become a part of this community, it seems awesome! I'll see you guys around!

Hey everyone. I'm Conor and I'm gonna stick my powerlifting log here. I suppose I'll introduce myself a bit first. I study maths in university in Ireland and love it. A lot. In between the powerlifting I do I spend my time with that, working on competition problem solving, studying for this major scholarship exam in January, things like that. I'm also working towards a C1 DELE diploma in Spanish as I want to go away to Argentina next summer to work there I've become a major film/TV nerd recently, after realising the dreadful gaps in my viewing that existed until very recently (hadn't seen Star Wars until last year, and I'm 19! I know, I know...). Aside from that, I love reading, and have been tearing through George RR Martin and Neal Stephenson most recently So back to powerlifting, I started in October, and had a few months of good progress (Squat: 20->110, Bench: 20->65, DL: 20->130) and then I swapped to Olympic Weightlifting, thinking its what I really wanted to do. That was March, I realised I was wrong, but only decided last week to leave, and am now powerlifting again. Unfortunately, I've lost most of my strength. My work sets currently are at: Squat: 77.5 Bench: 50 OHP: 40 Deadlift: 95 I'm currently weighing in at 85.4kg at 6"1, so I'm a bit light, but I've no real drive to gain weight yet, as my numbers are still quite small. Although I'm sure that will change in the coming weeks and months! I'm training Mon/Wed/Fri so tomorrow will be my first update here. Still on the newbie high of training and hating rest days, though I'm sure once squats start punishing me that will stop a bit! So here goes nothing and hopefully those numbers will rise

I'd agree with everyone posting to put up a video. Really, following any advice on your squats isn't a great idea when you could possibly be squatting badly in the first place. But once you correct any problems that may be there, just let it go up, take it at a steady pace

Wall Push-up -> Incline (45 degrees with a counter or table or something thats high enough) -> Knee Push-ups -> Full Push-ups. 3x10 on each. Another way of going about it is if you can do maybe 5 inclines, grease the groove by doing sets of 2 or 3 multiple (a whole lot) of times per day, you should see performance improve a lot in the next week or two. Presses are great also. Start with light dumbbells: my university gym goes in 1kg increments from 1 to 10kg, and I'm sure commercial gyms have something similar, although you may have not access to something like that, in which case I'd recommend the advice above. If you have dumbbells like I described, I find that watching the numbers go up is very satisfying. Best of luck