Hi you and welcome to ausbb

[BoyFromAus]

- Name: Rasika
- Nickname: Ras Kass
- Age: 24
- Gender: Male
- Location: Perth, Australia
- Occupation: IT Nerd
- Training experience: Started in October 2008, still going.

- Progress:
October 2008 -> Fat slob, roughly 26% bodyfat, little to no muscle tone, squat: 55kg 3 sets of 5 reps. Bench: 3 reps of 60kg.

December 2009 -> Roughly 12% bodyfat, reasonably alright muscle tone. Squat: 120kg 1RM, 2 x 8 at 100kg, Bench: 82.5kg 3 x 8

pretty f***in' stoked at the journey so far.

-Any Interests: weight training, AFL, designing lasers, making a 'UFO' at the moment, bodyboarding, building computers.

- Acknowledgements:

Big thanks to PTC and Fadi as i've gathered and used lots of info from both of them

[TGM]

Name: Tudor

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Location: Melbourne

Occupation: Radiography student

Training Experiences: Used to muck around with weights when I was 17, never really trained before starting Starting Strength.

Interests: Motorcycles, Mountainbiking, Fitness, Computer Games, Good TV, Guitar, Bass, and the Bombers.

Current Weight: 93kg @ 26% BF

Height: 176cm

Goals: Finish starting strength then get some more cardio done while maintaining strength. I would like a body weight bench press, and a 1.5x body weight squat. Would also like to do a body weight shoulder press eventually. Would also like to get my power clean form down and start doing them properly.

Progress: Started at 88kg and 27%BF on 23/11/09 (All of this is three sets of five, except deadlift which is 1x5)

Squat: 45
Deadlift: 55
Bench: 45
Press: 30
Power Clean: ??

As of today: 93kg at 26% BF.

Squat: 97.5
Deadlift: 135
Bench: 80
Press: 50
Power Clean: 52.5

Joined this community because it's nice to have an australian weightlifting community to learn from. Also need to ask a few questions, off to go make a thread.

[Aaron]

Name: Aaron

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Location: North of Shepparton, Victoria

Occupation: Office worker for Coates Hire

Training Experiences: 6 weeks of Stronglifts 5x5

Interests: Family (have a beautiful 2.5 year old daughter), motorbikes, guitar

Current Weight: 85.9kg - up from 81.9kg 6 weeks ago. Drinking 3L of milk per day on top of my regular intake.

Height: 180cm

Goals: Stick to Stronglifts until I can squat 1.5xBW, and deadlift 2xBW, then perhaps onto Madcow. Eat minimum 3500cal per day of good whole food.

Progress:

Started on this:

Squat: 20.3kg 5x5
Deadlift: 39.3kg 5x5
Bench: 20.3kg 5x5
Press: 20.3kg 5x5
Inverted Rows: 3x8
Prone Bridges: 3x30sec
Reverse Crunches: 3x12, 20kg counterweight

As of yesterday:

Squat: 62.8kg 5x5
Deadlift: 79.3kg 5x5
Bench: 40.3kg 5x5
Press: 32.8kg 5x5 (stalled yesterday on 35.3kg, 5,5,5,3,4)
Barbell Rows: 40.3kg 5x5 (switched from inverted rows 3 weeks in)
Prone Bridges: 3x34sec (started adding 2sec per session 2 sessions ago)
Reverse Crunches: 3x12, 4kg counterweight (dropping 2kg per session)

I participate pretty regularly on the Stronglifts forum, and just can't get enough! lol

Cheers,
Aaron.

[Shrek]

Welcome Aaron & TGM

[Admin]

hey Aaron , welcome to Ausbb , there is a few other shepp peeps floating around here , i'm from shepp too south end

[Shrek]

Yeah, look Modo up, he's from Shepp.

[Aaron]

Thanks Will do.

Cheers,

Aaron.

[Nathan1994]

- Name : Nathan
- Age : 15 almost 16
- Gender : Male
- Location : Melbourne
- Training experience : 6 months of weight training 4 years of karate training (7-11 then quit) and 2 years of Kick Boxing (12-14)
- Any Interests : Cricket,Surfing,Fitness and Martial arts

[minithemeezer]

Name: Nicole

Age: 39 (eep)

Gender: F

Location: Vic, Mornington Peninsula

Training experience: Was state and national-level cyclist on track and criteriums -- spent a lot of time in the gym for strength and power work. Fortunate in that I'm built to move quickly for short distances and lift heavy things for brief periods, however, lost habits after interstate moves and now have a chronic injury I'm working around. Love lifting though and am probably addicted to endorphins from wherever they come as long as they're healthy .

Any Interests: Cycling, lifting, reading, writing (have freelance resume writing business), my car.

Why you joined Ausbb: To feel part of a 'community' again. Also will be on the hunt for a trainer to help with managing the injury while developing new programs.

Do you have any goals in mind? The usual: less fat, more muscle.

[Shrek]

Welcome Nathan & Nicole.