Workout Goals Update

After a long hiatus, I’m back to blogging about my workouts. I see my last post was dated around mid-May, which would place it around the beginning of summer.

I’m not going to sugarcoat things at all and say I even came close to the goals I set for myself over the summer. Over the summer, I was lazy, and generally just sacrificed my training in favor of going out and having fun.

However, this new school year, things have definitely changed. I’ve acquired and have started intensely studying two bibles of the weightlifting game: Starting Strength and Practical Programming for Strength Training (both by Mark Rippetoe and Lon Kilgore).

What’s different now is that before I never possessed a sense of direction. A sense that if I persevere through this path, the results that have eluded me in the past will come. I know why my gains have always been subpar in the past - I’ve never consistently done squats or deadlifts. That’s changed. My workout (which I’ll detail in a later post) is exclusively focused around the big 3: the squat, the bench, and the deadlift.

I’m piling on poundages and hitting new PR’s every week in the main lifts. And my form is better than ever. Now, if I can just stick with the program and put in some hard work, I know I’ll be satisfied with the results.