Lifting Him up

Bill Starr 5 x 5

I have loved my time working through Baby Got Back. I enjoyed the gains, physically and experimenting with routine design a bit. I will go back to the routine in the future. One issue that began to glare at me was my lack of overall strength. While I was seeing body composition changes, I was not seeing the strength gains I would like to see. I was also finding my form was breaing down or horrible on the main lifts. As I have been dealing with some shoulder pain since I started the routine, I thought it might be good to take some time to work on form and strength. I decided to work through 12 weeks of Bill Starr's 5x5

Here are my first two days.

8/3/09

Heavy Day Squats
1 x 5 x 70
1 x 5 x 95
1 x 5 x 115
1 x 5 x 135
1 x 5 x 150
Bench Press - Form actually felt pretty good. I am really trying to get these down right
1 x 5 x 55
1 x 5 x 70
1 x 5 x 85
1 x 5 x 95
1 x 5 x 115
Pendley Row- While I couldn't lift as much weight as a normal row, I felt a lot better about the form with these. I did over estimate my weights a bit, so had to back off.
1 x 5 x 85
1 x 5 x 105
1 x 5 x 125
2 x 5 x 135