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I've been a little caught up with finals recently so my workouts this week all got shifted over a day. Hit a new two-rep record on squats this morning at 385; good start to my 19th birthday! My last week of TWNP is coming up, so I'm looking forward to some new 1RMs.

Yeah now that I've gotten further into TWNP I can see that taking on something like that would probably be too much. Anyway the workouts have been going well! Still hitting every rep. I have a little predicament this week with finding a gym open on Thanksgiving, so I'm just going to go ahead and do ...

Had my second workout on bench-press today, with the ten sets. Absolutely brutal but I hit every rep, and hit the top number anytime there was a range. Hopefully I'll do the same on squats tomorrow! I was also wondering about trying out that "arm specialization" phase during TWNP, any thou...

Finished the first five Feast workouts, so I'll be starting TWNP on Sunday or Monday! Looking forward to it. Hit 225 on bench and matched my previous PR on squat at 405, so those are the numbers I'll be using.

Only another ~12 hours of famine! I have a feeling I'm going to get some awesome traction in this next feast (during TWNP), I really hit this famine hard. Maybe a little too hard at some points, but it's almost over now! Can't wait for my first meal tomorrow. I didn't get to check my weight today, b...

First day of famine today, jumping right into it... I still need to go to the grocery store to pick up all my fruits/veggies for the week though

And just to be clear, before I go into TWNP I should return to those first 5 Feast workouts, right?

New bench PR! 235lbs. Only ten lbs up from my last 1RM, but at least it's up. I'm going out of town this weekend so I'm taking a couple days off to get some rest, and then Famine starts next week, and TWNP after that. Thanks for the responses!

https://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k4/CrackaJack_02/updatepic.jpg The one on the left was taken last summer, at about 160 if I remember correctly. After that pic I dropped down to 152, and then down to 145 for the wrestling season. The season ended in February, got back to lifting, and then the pic...

Just finished reading through it, looks good man! Some questions though: You train a major barbell lift with this twice a week I presume it's still okay to run this for squat/bench at the same time, for a total of 4 days a week? If running this as I suggest as part of The BP Periodic, you should be ...

My chest is still lagging a little, but nothing too serious. I hit 2x2 at 225 today on bench (my previous 1RM), but had to have help on the second rep of both sets. Spotter said he couldn't have been helping more than a couple lbs though, so I think I should be able to get the Russian Program's pres...

Glad to hear you're doing well! I'll likely have another update coming up pretty soon when I finish the Russian Program for bench (another 4 workouts left), with a new 1RM and plans for the next famine.

Glad to hear you're doing well! I'll likely have another update coming up pretty soon when I finish the Russian Program for bench (another 4 workouts left), with a new 1RM and plans for the next famine.

Well I guess it's time for my semi-annual update. A lot has gone on since I last posted! Due to some extraneous circumstances over the summer I had to take a couple weeks off, right in the middle of the Russian Program. I took a couple weeks to regain some strength before starting back where I left ...

As of my post made on Feb. 15th, my squat max was 285. That was just four months ago. Yesterday was workout #8 of the Russian program, where I did 6x6 at 295lbs. That was probably the hardest workout I've had since I've started lifting again. After the six sets of squats I had to give it a few minut...