Starting strength

About me
People, myself included, enjoy asking questions like "how much can I gain in one year?", or "can I increase my bench press by 100 pounds in a year?". I've googled the shit out of these questions myself. So to avoid wasting any more time, I will simply just see how strong I can get while documenting it all for my own and others benefit. By publicly displaying my progress I hope that I can embarrass myself into some real gains and perhaps motivate others.

I tell my wife that I'm going to get big as a house, but that's mostly just a joke on the "jooced" up former body builder running the local gym in my teenage days. I lifted some weights as a teenager, ate a lot of crap and did it all wrong. Today, I'm 34 years old, motivated, and trying to figure it all out.

For the last 15 years, I've always stayed some-what active, but never lifted weights. This year I decided to take a break from BJJ and mountain biking, to get stronger. I bought a copy of "Starting Strength", and started lifting as best I can. I am now about 4 weeks into it and I will document everything on my journey.

Why now
"Any man under 200 pounds is a woman"

No, seriously, I have the following goals:
1. Get stronger to avoid getting injured.
2. Get stronger to better compete in BJJ.


Starting Out
I'm neither naturally strong nor weak, I've seen better and I've seen worse. I'm about 5'11", 185 pounds and I'm just learning my lifts. I lift raw, and will continue to do so. I take no "special" supplements nor protein, and will document any changes in diet. The following three lifts are my first established lifts where I have decent form (deep squat, hips not leaving bench, etc).

Squat:      5x 184 pounds
Bench:     5x 174 pounds
Dead-lift: 5x 189 pounds

Looking at these numbers, you could say that they're all pretty bad, and I would not disagree :). However, to me, my squat is especially weak, my bench is OK, and the dead lift is still a little new to me.

My goals are (1RM):
400 pounds squat
300 pounds bench press
450 pounds dead-lift

All without getting too fat.
Lofty? We shall see.