Thank you, it will definitely come in useful.
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Work for today:
Press (ss. Pull ups):
5 x 40kg
5 x 50kg
8 x 52.5kg
10 x 5 @ 50kg
Giant set (2 rounds):
30-10-30 press (30kg)
Lateral raises to failure
20 band pull aparts.
Notes:
- Everything felt heavy today, first non-PR PR set since I started using them I think. Probably some excuses there somewhere if I look hard enough.
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Thatsa lotta volume
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Itās almost like supersetting pull-ups is not the greatest ideaā¦
Still some pretty good work.
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@guineapig I really want a semi-respectable press. Iām not very smart, so volume is the tool Iām using.
@Cyrrex I mean, i did switch them to after the press this time. And i canāt stress enough how submaximal these pull up sets are. Usually in the 3-5 rep range and medium sloppy.
Work for today:
Deadlift (ss. Box jumps)
5 x 70kg
5 x 110kg
3 x 130kg
1 x 150kg
3 x 1 @ 152.5kg
Back Extensions: 2 x 20
Notes:
- Had a quick 30mins between Daddys taxi service runs, so got a real basic pull session in. I still think Iāll be able to fit all my planned sessions in before Christmas without having to do any two a weeks, which is nice.
- These felt surprisingly heavy considering I was doing this for 5 not too long ago. Chalk it up to a bad couple of days and try and eat better and chill more.
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So, you literally did all the PUs after totally finishing your press work? Because that would be fine.
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As in I now do pull ups after every press set, instead of before. I donāt have the patience to do much after 13 work sets of pressing.
Ah, so you are still SSing them, just in the other order. You are giving me a big ole Frowny Face.
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Iām just letting you know, there is no fucking way Iām standing at a pull up bar doing 13+ sets of submaximal pull ups without something else to break them up. This keeps my session to a manageable length and goes part of the way to balancing pushing and pulling. Iām also extremely confident that if it does in fact make me weaker at press in that session, when I come to test I can just not do them and earn myself a nice little PR.
I am more looking at it the other way aroundā¦that it is impacting your press! I agree with the general sentiment of mixing the PUs with something to make it less boring, I would just never do it with the press. You know, the one you are trying to push towards 80.
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That was exactly what I meant to type, but sleep is not great.
Push to 80kg, not towards. I figure that if i get strong(er) at doing presses with pull ups inbetween, Iāll certainly get stronger doing them without.
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U feel u r recovering well from the workload rn?
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Right this second? No, two shit sessions back to back. But in general, yeah. Consistently hitting PRs (barring last night). If that continues, Iāll gladly reassess because 13 work sets of pressing is boring as shit.
I have never personally subscribed to this theory, but I am sure that there is some truth to it and that it works for some people. Smells like bodybuilding. But I guess if you do it consistently, then it could still work.
And obviously I meant here to stress that 80 was only a matter of āwhenā not āifā.
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Depending on how u structure things might just have been going hard for too long without a deload like maybe u are 4 weeks hard 1 week deload and thatās the general pattern u go with. Could also be the volume if youāve taken a big jump recently. So I guess either/and/or short term and long term fatigue. If you are accumulating volume then I reckon itās ok to have bad days as long as they arenāt so bad u canāt go in and get decent work in. If fatigue gets so high either acutely or chronically that u canāt keep smashing out that overloading stimulus then prob needs to work out how to manage it better
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@Cyrrex I certainly hope it will work. I canāt see it likely Iāll do a lot of back work without stuff like that.
@guineapig I think this is probably outside of the gym stuff since I hadnāt lifted since Friday before last nights session, been too busy. Although my shoulders havenāt feeling too chuffed with me since that WGSMBTNZPressing on friday. Turns out putting your fatigued shoulders in a really compromised position, then adding intensity techniques isnāt quite the win youād hope.
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Work for today:
Push press: 8 x 1 @ 75kg
T-bar row: 3 x 12(?)
Incline press (EMOM): 1 Ć 4, 5 x 3
Giant set (3 rounds):
10 x axle Z-press
12 x lateral raises
20x band pull aparts
Sit ups to failure.
Notes:
- Took longer than I thought at the start of this session so had to cut a bit of work out
- Time to up the weight on push press next week, which will be a challenge. Still missing at 75kg occasionally, although mostly with silly technique.
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75 is a hefty weight!
What Iāve found, true with every lift, but even more with vertical pressing, is being tight AF and having as tense a body as possible. Makes much more good to me when I focus on that
You have an axle in your gym? I always wanted to try that. How dos it feel compared to regular Z-presses?
5kg less than my strict press goal, so a long way to go yet.
I literally only found it today. It seems to have disappeared for the last few months.
Really very similar, especially for someone who uses false grip like myself. The most difficult part was getting in position without spotter bars
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