I started a modified version of Starting Strength from February but I've not been getting much out of it. First let me say why I lift.
1-The burning feeling in my muscles, specially arms. I absolutely love that. It's like rocket fuel to me.
2-Improved posture
3-I want to have a toned body.
The routine I do is as follows (each exercise 3 sets of 5):
A: squat, deadlift, bench press
B: squat, barbel row, overhead press
3 routines a week.
My figures are currently as follows:
Squat: 150lbs, deadlift: 180, barbell row: 120
(They don't include the weight of the barbell. I do the row and deadlift with an EZ bar and the rest with a 7' bar.)
The figures for overhead press and bench are embarrassingly low (no kidding). And this confuses me. I can't make any progress in these two, even adding 5 lbs makes these two exercises much more difficult. It may be my low T problem I wrote about in another thread but I believe I can do better.
Moreover even though it's improved my posture for sure,I hardly get any burning feel in my muscles.
So I think 1-three days a week is not enough and 2-I need to do other exercises as well. Now having routines is important because when I'm tired (happens a lot), if I have to improvise, it's likely that I just skip the whole thing. But with a routine that's not the case, I just go through the motions. So I like to have comprehensive routines including calisthenics, dumbbells, sandbag, weight plates and other barbell exercises.
1-The burning feeling in my muscles, specially arms. I absolutely love that. It's like rocket fuel to me.
2-Improved posture
3-I want to have a toned body.
The routine I do is as follows (each exercise 3 sets of 5):
A: squat, deadlift, bench press
B: squat, barbel row, overhead press
3 routines a week.
My figures are currently as follows:
Squat: 150lbs, deadlift: 180, barbell row: 120
(They don't include the weight of the barbell. I do the row and deadlift with an EZ bar and the rest with a 7' bar.)
The figures for overhead press and bench are embarrassingly low (no kidding). And this confuses me. I can't make any progress in these two, even adding 5 lbs makes these two exercises much more difficult. It may be my low T problem I wrote about in another thread but I believe I can do better.
Moreover even though it's improved my posture for sure,I hardly get any burning feel in my muscles.
So I think 1-three days a week is not enough and 2-I need to do other exercises as well. Now having routines is important because when I'm tired (happens a lot), if I have to improvise, it's likely that I just skip the whole thing. But with a routine that's not the case, I just go through the motions. So I like to have comprehensive routines including calisthenics, dumbbells, sandbag, weight plates and other barbell exercises.
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