Had a good lifting day on Friday.

Split Squat - 135, 155, 175, 185, 175
Incline DB Bench - 55, 60, 60, 60, 55
Renegade Rows - 55s, 60s, 60s, 60s, 55s

I superset the bench and rows, it was nice.

Today, I think I'll do some squats, BORs, and cleans...

how many calories are you eating per day? What are your macros? And what is your maintance calories with activity factored in?

Just curious... I love talking fitness etc.

No worries man, I love a good fitness chat myself!

I'm eating 2400-2500 calories a day, that puts me at about a 500 calorie deficit. Macros are about 35% fats, 35% carbs, and 30% protein. For me to simply maintain, I would need to eat about 3000 cals.

Cool, cool. What is your lifestyle (how many calories do you burn just by day to day activities?) and what activity are you doing that is factored into that maintance? I'm cutting too..

How are the results so far?

I'm sure your kicking ass!

My calories burned just by being alive is something like 2100 cals. Then, with weekly exercise factored in, I need 3100 cals to maintain. The activities I'm doing are 3 full body workouts a week, heavy lifting, low reps. Then 20 min steady state cardio after lifting, and HIIT on Tuesday and Saturday. Thursday is my busiest day at school, there from 9:30-9:00, so I just take it off. Sunday can be off or I might go in for a run session. So far, I'm down to about 202 or so, so things are good. I want to get to 190 and see how things are. I might need to drop to 185 before I really happy, and ready to bulk again. We'll see!

Kick ass man!

Had some good days last week.

Monday

DB Split Squat - 3x5 - 120, 140, 150
BB Squat - 2x5 - 165, 175
Standing Shldr Press - 5x5 - 85, 95, 105, 95, 95
BORs - 3x5 - 105, 115, 125 -- 2x3 - 135, 135

Wednesday 5x5

BB Squats - 155, 165, 175, 185, 195
Dips - BW, 10, 25, 25, 10
Pullups - BW-40, BW-30, BW-40 last 3 sets

Friday

Split Squats - 135, 155, 175, 185, 175
Inc. DB Bench - 55s, 60s for 3, 55s for last
superset
Renegade Rows - same as bench

Didn't feel like deadlifting this week. Supersetting the bench with the rows was rough, but enjoyable. Got sick over the weekend, so that is going to be a wrench in the plans for a bit. Gonna be hard to lift and eat everything. I have no appetite, and I feel like I can barely unzip my pants to take a leak...I hate being sick!

I did like a triples day on Monday. Only did 6x3, but whatever.

Split Squat - 135, 155, 175, 195, 205, 195
Standing Shldr Press - 95, 105, 115, 105, 105, 105
BORs - 115, 125, 135, 135, 135, 125

It was nice, then ran for 25 minutes. Gonna do some DLs tomorrow, dips, pullups, maybe more.

I don't know why I let my journal fall off, cause I know I sure haven't! Ha, anyways, just wanted to make an update.

Had an awesome workout today. Holy **** I love deadlifting. My old PR was 255, I double checked in the Deadlift Chart thread. I really need to do PR coming up soon, cause I was doing 265 for reps on my last set.

I did 5x5 and superset deads with standing military press.

Deadlift - 175, 205, 225, 245, 265
Mil Press - 95, 95, 100, 95, 95

Then superset pull-throughs and woodchops and did 3x10

Pull-Throughs- 100, 120, 150
Woodchops - 100, 120, 130

I was pretty damn wiped, but managed 3x5 on bent over row

BOR - 105, 115, 105

Then ran a couple miles to boot. I felt like I could destroy worlds today, it was awesome! I am addicted to deadlifting, I wish I could do that **** everyday.

I didn't know you had a journal. I'll check it out.

I like deads too. I'm much better at it than squatting

Thanks for stopping in dude, not too much excitement in here though, haha.

Yeah, same here. I like squatting too, but I think deadlifts just come more natural to me. Something about picking up really heavy stuff is just fun.

what are these split squats? Is it a forward split, sideways?

I'm old and can't see real well... is that a Chevelle SS in your avatar? 1970? 1971? 1972? 350 or the 396?

Split squats are unilateral. You lunge forward, and instead of coming back to an erect position, you stay in that lunge position and do reps. Like this, except with mass weight!

Barbell Split Squat

Yessir, it's a Chevelle SS, I believe this one was a 1970. I can't say for sure if it was a 350, 396, cause I like to think it's a 454! BTW, it's just a picture I swiped from Google, such a sexy car...

I had a decent workout yesterday. Did power cleans, squats, renegade rows, and incline dumbbell presses.

Power Clean
2 reps @ 115
2 reps @ 135
2 reps @ 145
1 rep @ 155
3 reps @ 135
3 reps @ 135
3 reps @ 135

OK, so I'm a wuss, but I'll eventually put up some good numbers when my time comes.

Squats 4x6
135, 155, 165, 175
superset w/
Renegade Rows
55s for all 4 sets

Inc DB Press
55s in each hand for 4x6

Then ran 3 miles, 22 mins.

So my squat has definitely lost some of it's umph, that blows. I was doing 185 pounds with not problem at the tail end of my bulk, and now I'm struggling with 175. Oh well, 3 more weeks or so, and I'll start bulking again.