You will soon see that I tend to post a lot. I figure that if I don’t know someone will or if I screw up (like today) that if I tell everyone they might not make the same mistake. So heregoes....
1st I was planning to start in about 2 days but after taking the L-Glutamine my muscle fatigue that I was experiencing had all but disappeared and my muscles were screaming to be abused so I complied. I went threw the book and picked the exercises that I wanted to do. Assigned the weights which is just a guess since most of the exercises are newer ones that I haven’t done in years.
I went to the gym and lined up all my barbells read the exercises and I was off. About half way threw my workout I was starting to wander how anybody could do 12 reps of a weight higher than the one that was 6 reps. So I looked at the charts in the book and saw that the weights don’t continually increase. The last one decreases. So for the rest of the workout I adjusted it and will fix it before my next UBW. But as I sit here and type I am having difficulty keeping my arm up to the key board and my triceps keep trembling so I guess it was still a success.
I would like to know how you all approach assigning weights. I also would like to know about the abs. Do you just do the reps like in the daily workout sheet or what?

Hi there officerjqg, and welcome to the forum

Sounds like you had an interesting first workout. When I first starated with BFL I had a rough idea of what I could lift but found that for the first week I rarely hit my 10s - I was underestimating how strong I was. What I do now when I switch my exercises every 4 weeks is do a practice lift of every new exercise on freeday trying to figure out my maxiumum. I then take 80% of that max one rep and use it for my 6 reps, 75% is for 8, 70% is for 10 and 50% is for 12. For the 12 after my 6 reps at 80% I'll either do the same weight as at 10 or 8, depending on how I feel and what is next. You have to keep in mind that the idea is to reach failure on the second exercise for that muscle group.

With abs, I have been doing the Ab bootcamp - something I got from Muscle Media Magazine - its a 15 minute circuit program that's tough and demanding and I do it after cardio (I do not do abs with my LBWO) I posted a link to ab bootcamp a while back - at the bottom of the thread is the link to the actual article complete with photos.

Congrats on starting, I am sure that you'll be noticing results in no time.
Nat

Hello officer ...

regardding starting weights, over in the General Exercise forum, I posted a beginner's article that (further down) in the article lists typical starting weights for a variety of lifts.

Give it a look, hope it helps, and good luck with your program. Keep us posted.