5/3/1 start

Feb 4 2014

I have been weight training on and off since I was about 16, more recently (last 5 years) geared towards powerlifting. I recently have gotten back into the gym much more seriously and decided to stop screwing around in there. After a few months of getting back into it I decided to start a program and document my progress. I will be training for powerlifting, specifically the bench press, deadlift, squat and overhead press. I have competed in two powerlifting meets before, but only in the bench press lift and both were with a bench shirt. I will enter a full meet (bench, squat, dead) without any gear in the next year, most likely later this year in the fall.
I have started the Jim Wendler 5/3/1 program. For those of you who don't know who he is, Google him and you get the idea, bascially he is an accomplished powerlifter and an icon in the powerlifting world.
I'm not going to get into details about the program, but will explain it briefly. It is a 4 week program focusing on the main lifts I mentioned before, with assistance work. The idea is to add weight (even very small amounts) to your 1 rep max (1RM) after every 4 week wave. You start by figuring out your 1RM on each lift and basically use 90% of it as your "working max". Here are my numbers in pounds;

Bench Press - 355
Squat - 405
Deadlift - 475
OHP - 205

My body weight is 215 pounds.

The bench and deadlift I actually tested in the gym, the squat and ohp I estimated using a formula based on my working sets in the gym.