Yup baked beans and white chocolate are great in my book, and I can be trusted on food, I’m British.
@dagill2 is definitely right about how much British care about the rest of the world’s opinion, I mean come on you can’t care what people think and colonise (invade) half the world.
You can have my share. It’s one of the few things I dislike. It’s right up there with jellied eel 
Few hours late to the discussion but we didn’t have AC when I lived in Germany.
@ChickenLittle thank you, at last someone agrees with me.
@Cyrrex honestly, I didn’t even realise beans where a British thing. Probably one of our better inventions.
@alex_uk and we’re still called Great Britain, damnit.
@jshaving AC really, really isn’t a thing over here. Most shops have it, that’s about it really. Even gyms are pretty touch and go. I don’t remember ever being in a house and noticing AC.
Work for today:
Press (ss. Pull ups)
5 x 40kg
5 x 45kg
10 x 47.5kg
10 x 5 x 47.5kg
Giant set:
Z-press to failure (20kg)
Y-raises
Band pull aparts
Superset:
21-15-9 skull crushers/plate press (10kg), no rest.
lol. The first time I realized A/Cs weren’t common, I was driving around a client who lived up north. She asked if we had A/Cs here and I was just stunned. Like, in my mind it was equivalent to asking if we had refrigerators. My wife who’s better travelled than I have me the scoop after.
Nice work on the quad killer man. I’ll need to try it out after a proper squat session some time.
I’m a little late on the temperature jokes, but, I can’t stand the F to C (or reverse) conversion. Distance and weight are easy, and dumbing it down more can give you a reasonable approximation, but no dice as far as I know for temperature without doing some actual math.
@TX_iron I guess it would be like asking someone here if they have a waterproof jacket. Of course we do, its Britain.
@mr.v3lv3t if I’m honest, I wouldn’t even know how to start converting C to F without Google. Not even a vague guess, and I’ve grown up in a country where people use both pretty regularly (although F is dying out now). It gets worse for cooking because then you get gas mark mixed into the equation as well.
Yea, what the heck is up with gas mark, someone just made that up for a laugh, doesn’t relate to anything!
Welcome to the British way of measuring stuff: let’s complicate shit for no reason.
While you’re here, I’m going to give paused DL a go later as a supplemental, what kind of weight would you use relative to your regular (non cheaty) deadlift?
Haha I only do cheaty deadlifts and my pause game is weak! I’d guess I’d your not going crazy -80% would be about right?
I’ll give it a go, thanks
Is this 10 sets of 5 reps?
Exactly that, yeah. It’s the Boring but Strong 531 template. In my case its half right at least.
The plan is to do it with different movements (trap bar press and Z-press) but at the end of a long day, I often can’t be arsed to set up the different movements.
That is a lot of sets. How is progress so far?
(Apologies if you have already written about this earlier)
This is a dumb question (yeah, I know, I know), but is Boring but strong just the set and rep opposite of BBB? So 10 sets of 5 instead of 5 sets of 10?
@Cyrrex exactly that, yeah. Never done it before, but Jim recommends it for the “hardgainers” template and it was a similar thought to the 8 x 3’s I used to have success with.
@doomyguy I think it’s working, presses are feeling easier and smoother, long way to go before we get to anything near maxing though
Nice. I might consider switching my Press to that scheme if it looks like I am struggling to break through this invisible wall.
My previous best ever progress on press (add disclaimers here) was on 2 days a week pressing:
1 higher volume, heavier weight (8 x 3)
1 531 day followed with burn out drop sets and some isolation.
That’s kind of how I’m structuring this, albeit moving stuff between days.
I find that my two a weeks (Full AMRAP plus BBB on one day, just BBB the second time) help me sprint towards my best presses, but then usually it is when I change gears and start deliberately lifting closer to max that the best absolute numbers come. Which makes sense with 531…destroy the sub-max weights for a while, and the change it up and try to display that strength.
That is kinda what caught my eye up there. The BBS might let me start doing that sooner, although picking a weight seems like it would be difficult for me.
If you have Beyond (I think), Jim has several BBB challenges that start with 5 x 10, then 5 x 5, then 5 x 3 and finally 5 x 1. Seems to be a similar idea to yours.
I’m using 85% for my BBS sets, but honestly, it feels slightly light, so I might lower reps and raise the weight soon for a tester.