Seems like you are moving in that direction with the squats lately.
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Thatās the plan, yeah. Not sure how much further I can push it right now without more food and more accessories though. Weāll see.
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Isnāt that what you want? 
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Yeah, letās have a contest. See who can eat all the food and put 30 kilo on their squat.
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@anna_5588 my belly wants it, but I am noticeably overweight, so Iāll steer clear of that plan for now. My goal right now is to be slowly losing weight until end of August time, roughly. By that point I anticipate being around 180lbs, and less noticeably a fatty. Iāll be participating in the ADD challenge again this year (if @Frank_C is running it) so Iāll have a 16 week āeat to gainā program written taking me up to Christmas time, when Iāll retest maxes, see the progress Iāve made this year and dive straight into next years āyear of 531ā with the aim of hitting my long term strength goals by the end of next year.
@Cyrrex I tried that, which is why Iām having to lose all the weight I lost last year again.
I think my spur-of-the-moment thought is to switch to a more structured training plan, but use a more intuitive method while Iām still losing weight. Certainly plans designed to be used while eating to gain need to be taken off the table, because Iām not. So pwns idea of self regulating programs makes absolute sense. Probably a version of Brian Alsruhe linear progression plan, with a bit more structure.
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I saw this last year but never understood what it was about. Do you just not program hop for a year?
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You say things like this is easyā¦
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3 months, but yeah.
Plan the dive, dive the plan.
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True.
Although, I never had a problem with program hopping in the past because I never really had a program 
I did a pretty good job with my 4 or so sweet months running Sheikoā¦ until COVIDā¦
It wouldnāt hurt you to join this year, assuming gyms will be reopen by then, so we can bust your ass about skipping assistance to do conditioning every week. Itāll be like old times.
J ran it from early September, I just tend to start early because that gives me 16 weeks til Christmas with a couple of deloads thrown in where needed.
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I managed not to skip assistance. Guilty as charged with conditioning
One of the most annoying part about the program was not being able to do fun conditioning workouts without jepordizing my next squat day
It felt like a weird fit for you. I think Brian Alsruhe programming would work well for you when you can use the gym, if you could commit to only training 4 days a week.
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Wellā¦ my goals were (and still are) powerlifting, and I enjoy volume work
His structure of training is exactly how I used to structure my sessions before I knew anything (with actual sensible progressions of course). I actually donāt really like combining strength and conditioning into a single session. Makes me want to skip assistance
Then do a deal with yourself to leave the conditioning until the end. The deal is that you put your all into the strength work, then after you get to do some silliness with pistols and handstands and stuff.
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Then I donāt want to do conditioning , especially not the torture Brian programs
Win, win.
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But then Iām not following the programā¦ 
I guess Iāll just have to toughen up like Pwn
Training mental toughness is a good thing, and preached by most big strong people that I can think of.
A pre-written program helps here, thereās no second guessing. You did the program or you didnāt. Hereās your instructions, do no more, no less. Your only job is to do the work and do whatever is needed to recover.
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When I get back to the gym, Iām going to run a 3 or so week pretty low volume, very basic linear template to get me used to heavy barbell work again. Run some version of 5/3/1 or Canditoās 6 week program. Then itās back to Sheiko.
A lot of us tend to program hop around the 3-6 week mark. The challenge was to post your plan and then stick to it. Colucci even created a tag for training logs so we could check in on each other.
We ran it from Sept to the end of the year. The programs didnāt have to last that long. You just had to commit to one and finish it.
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