Can you do 70kgs 8 x 1 with the strict press, or is it your 1RM?
So you had to clean it? @T3hPwnisher approved.
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Nah: continental. Cleans are too technical, haha.
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Probably slightly over my 1RM
Nope: just lean forward a long way to unrack.
This seems like a lot to me.
Iāve recently been swooning over these two,
Workout A: Perform 50 pull-ups in as little time as possible.
Workout B: Perform as many pull-ups as possible in 10 minutes.
Thatād still keep the session a manageable length?
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Yep. But tedious. This way works, when I have a pull up bar near where Iām pressing.
I may be the only person who hates pressing with an axle. Grip is a non-issue, but itās so damn awkward with limited wrist mobility.
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Iāve only ever done it today but found it to be a total non-issue. Glad I didnāt spring for one for the home gym.
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Do you go thumbless?
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I do, even then itās a strain. Push press is alright since itās a different angle, but strict isnāt pleasant. I jacked my wrists up a little during my stint in bjj, and they never quite went back to normal.
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If i couldnāt be assed with the gym I would just set an hour by and see how many chins I could bang out
Tak about back and abs doms man. Legendary doms
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Iāve been reading some older stuff where things arenāt prescribed in reps and sets but rather duration. Everything from entire workouts (Pierre Roy) to the Hungarian Oak Leg Blast, and also experimented some with the abdominal stack from Dardenās book that he posted here. I think it has appeal. At least from my own experience you leave the gym thinking āif that doesnāt elicit hypertrophy then nothing willā
Hereās a Pierre Roy example,
Warm-up (jumps): 10 minutes
Primary movement: 20 minutes
Secondary movement: 20 minutes
Assistance exercise: 15 minutes
Remedial exercise: 10 minutes
Total: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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That sounds a bit like EDT. I think that without some kind of structure to it, Iād definitely end up trying to game the system.
Iām considering pulling the plug on my committed plan already, for the simple fact that Iām just not finding the time most weeks to do both a squat and deadlift day. With CoVid Mk2: The Clusterfuck, plus plague season and Christmas just round the corner, I canāt see the situation improving so I think Iāll be more productive committing to 3 full sessions a week and making sure I hit those hard. That will necessitate putting squat and deadlift into one lower body day which will probably look something like this:
Deadlifts (either Kroc Program or maybe get kinky and try some of my own advice: ROM progression or clusters)
Front Squats (SGSS?)
Assistance work (core, legs, upper back)
You could just go full body on 3 days a week, thatās no problem at all.
You can either squat or deadlift on each of those.
I donāt want to scrap my plan completely, just accepting that Iām not going to get 4 session consistently for a while so Iām going to have to combine my 2 least important days.
Itāll be aight. Just go in order of priority of most to least stimulative work like heavy compounds and what ends up being skipped will be skipped. Still make most of the gains. Maybe even better gains if on the balance of things recovery is optimised
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Allegedly this precedes Stanleyās EDT by decades.
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Do it (insert Darth Vader face here)
The full-body ideas are good suggestions and even though I cannot recommend it from my own experience on paper I wonder if Paul Kelsoās A/B workouts. 2-3 days/wk.
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@guineapig my no.1 training priority is the 80kg press, which means upper body mass. That isnāt changing, itās the other stuff thatās getting cut back.
@Voxel Iām quite sure Staley didnāt invent EDT, because nothing is ever invented these days, just rehashed. I absolutely want to keep the spirit of the committed plan, just combine my 2 least important days into one because I just donāt see it working practically at the minute as it is.
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