Merry Xmas!

Merry Christmas! Even though I am a bit of a bah humbug I still feel the need to say this to everyone. Christmas is good for kids (and possibly the religious), but once you get to a certain age you just lose all interest and could very well start hating it. There is one thing I enjoy about christmas and that is time off work. My family don't get together because most of us are dysfunctional, so I have spent my past 6 christmas' with my girlfriend and her family (her mum makes an awesome dinner too). This works out well for me as I actually get to wake up to some pressies on xmas morning, becuase my parents just give me a bit of money and the ladyfriend always gets me some cool stuff. Anyways enough about xmas, it sucks, the end.

In the gym I had a week to test myself in the big 3 (squat, deadlift, bench), and I am coming along just nicely. Here's how I stand compared to before;

Squat - 130kg / 145kg
DL - 175kg / 185kg
Bench - 112.5kg / 120kg

My bench doesn't look as if it has improved that much, but taking into consideration that my old PB is when I used to touch and go on the bench and my new one was paused makes it better. The squat is the one I am most impressed with though, because it was only a month or so ago that I attempted 135kg and couldn't get back up (before putting on weight). The deadlift was pretty much expected though, I have came on leaps and bounds with this in the past few months, and it shows. I actually felt there may have been another 5kg in the tank, but I didn't want to push it. This is actually my xmas present to myself, lol. I am trying to take videos of my attempts now, although I only managed to get a 180kg deadlift (someone phoned me during my 185kg attempt....I was angry). The video is bad quality but I am still going to put it up at some point.
Weight was up to 12'6 yesterday, no doubt it will be back down to 12'3 or something by tomorrow though.