I just had a request to add pics and stats, and I assumed people had seen pics because they’d followed me on FB, but that’s not entirely the case. Thus:
Jamie Lewis Vital Statistics
Height: 5’5″
Weight: 215-225 (varies by what I’ve trained and eaten that week, but an XL shirt is tight and most of my XXLs are snug in the arms and shoulders)
Arms: 18-18.5″
I don’t max on anything at the moment because doing singles isn’t interesting to me recently. I just go to the gym and throw weights around a few times a week, then do a bunch of rep work at home just for fun.
My last maxes on incline bench and front squat were 345 and 545, and I hit 255×2 for some ultra-strict standing military presses. Those happened at some point over the summer, I think.
Thank you James. Although you weigh more than when you started in powerlifting, you are not so fatty. And look, you don’t typicall strength workout and yet you have an elegant result in the squat.
Yeah- you really don’t need to have a program for any of this shit- that’s been my point from the beginning. If you had any idea how unstructured my workouts were, it’d probably shock you. I usually don’t have any idea what I’m training until I leave the house, and that’s only because I have to wear a shirt with sleeves to hold the bar in place for front squats, haha.
I could be leaner, but frankly I love eating pizza and haven’t had a real reason to diet. You’ll be seeing some changes over the next couple of months as I train to go make a good impression at the Arnold, however. If I’m honestly, I think there were three days last week during which I ate an entire pizza, and probably one other day I had a couple of slices as leftovers- I have not been dieting at all beyond the occasional protein shake.
Jamie, any interest in making a comeback to powerlifting or no? Stumbled upon your blog recently and have loved all the training advice. Totally changed my way of training so just want to say thanks.
Oh badass, man. I’m psyched you enjoy it, and really, really appreciate you becoming a Patron. As to powerlifting, I’d toyed with the idea when Maliek held the record, because I could break 1800 without training the direct lifts too much, but I’ll be fucked if I’m going to train three lifts like a psychopath just to get within shouting distance of Haas, because that’ll just make me hate training again- even forcing myself to squat twice a week made me crazy, hahaha.
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more machine work, as you can see, and it lets me train more freely without locking myself into shit, and I get a lot more work in than I could with a barbell in the same time. Not that I avoid the gym, but I range anywhere from 4 hours on a slow week to ten in the gym each week, and I want to make the post of it without making it my life. Whereas lifting as a “job” and having writing as an ancillary was miserable, putting writing first and keeping lifting my hobby is a hell of a lot more fun for me. I’ve enjoyed the shit out of lifting to the point where I didn’t lift fewer than three or four times in a week ever (even with mono or having had surgery) from 1993-2012. In the last eight years I went from loving lifting to watching the clock the entire time I was in the gym for three years, then lifting twice or three times a week or not lifting at all for a week at a time for two years. Then I had to relearn how to like lifting, because competing in powerlifting made me hate it so much. It’s the same reason I hate filming lifts- if I’m lifting for you guys it’s no longer a hobby, you know?
Yeah I understand. I’ve never competed in powerlifting but I played baseball in college so I understand what you mean about it not being fun or a hobby anymore. I had an opportunity to graduate or prolong school another semester just to play one last season of baseball and I decided to just finish up my education because mentally I couldn’t give it everything I had because it just wasn’t fun anymore. Two very different sports but along the same lines. Side note, day one of APD and can’t wait to see where it gets me. Also, record another hatecast rant with Bryce those things are fucking awesome.