Counterpoint, and it is not intended to suggest one way is better than the other…
When I do BBB and EMB™, it MAKES me go past the point where I think I have done enough. We have a way of fooling ourselves into thinking we have done enough, because often doing more just plain sucks.
Yeah, at some point it might become counterproductive, but I think in a lot of ways this is why BBB has always worked for me. It makes me keep working when I would otherwise have stopped.
I agree. Also why I think plus sets have value.
In this case though, the intent isn’t to complete X number of full reps but to pump the shit out of the muscle so I’d be better off focussing on keeping the tension in the muscles and keep going well into partial steps.
Carry on then, my comments were more of the general nature. I am not even sure which muscles you are talking about pumping.
Definitely letting conditioning and nutrition slide a bit recently, and next week is likely to be even worse nutrition wise with all the events planned.
Am planning a few tweaks to “standard nutrition”, like cutting the coffees, and 2/3 short conditioning sessions every week on the days I do earlies. These seem like manageable changes that should tip the scale in the right direction going forward. There may need to be a short week or two of more serious adjustments to bring myself comfortably below 200lbs again after this next week is over too but that’s to be decided at the time.
I’m going to write “tabata burpees” to let that get in your head whenever you think you’ve run out of conditioning time.
But… there’s zero calories in the nectar of Gods…
I really struggle with intense sessions early in the morning so I think my “hard conditioning” needs to go at the end of lifting sessions.
Tabata SSB squats were definitely a thought, although I guess burpees could also work. Might just do those on a random evening in the front room though, no need to waste gym time.
Not the way I do it.
That’s pretty much how it goes. I’ll be winding down after a long day and think “Oh damn, I forgot to get in conditioning”, and then realize I have 4 minutes to spare and enough room to do a burpee.
That makes a lot of sense. But having a rep/weigth/whatever target are just so much easier to enter into the spreadsheet for tracking workouts & progress.
My thoughts are fairly sleep deprived at the minute, I’ve been awake for 37 hours, and I don’t really feel like I have a good grasp on the subject at the best of times.
But with my current set up, I’m pretty much just getting main work and supplemental done then doing “whatever” to pump target muscles up. Definitely using it as an opportunity to play with different toys and movements rather than deliberately progress any of them.
Next up: I spied a sissy squat stand for my next squat session.
Wow - that is a long time awake. Feeling for you - hopefully you can hit the sack soon?
Yea that sucks big time, not at all good, the fact that he hasn’t replied I reckon he’s already asleep!
@doomyguy @alex_uk few hours to go. I’m “babysitting” the kids tonight, so my bedtime will be their bedtime. “Babysitting” is in quote Mark’s because apparently I’m not allowed to call it that when they’re my own kids.
Or you will fall asleep and they will create havoc in the house 
Nah, forcing yourself to stay awake is easy. The difficult thing is forcing yourself to sleep.
Very much in the same vein as “not eating is easy, forcing yourself to eat more is difficult”.
This sounds bad. Are you okay?
True.
Yeah, being unable to sleep is majorly annoying, have suffered from that a lot back in the day.
It is impossible to force, but some relaxation (body and mind) routines can sometimes help.
What the hell dude that is unfathomable to me, you have the resilience of a God
Absolutely fine, yeah. Just a few things knocked together to make a bit of a poor schedule this week is all. An overnight project that needed my supervision (allegedly) came up at short notice last night and my schedule is unfortunately tight enough this week that sleep was the thing to go. I used to do far worse when little man was born. I’ll be off work from Sunday for a week, so I’ll have plenty of time to catch up.
@doomyguy I’ve never really suffered with insomnia, luckily, so I can’t comment. I do have a few strategies to get deeper sleep when needed though.
@aldebaran Once you’ve been through 2 newborns, a little bit of sleep deprivation just becomes no big deal. Honestly, the stuff new parents go through can be absolutely unbelievable.