Improving on a lift on AMRAPs has always been the rule, not the exception for me so I don’t feel any anxiety about it, I view it as a given. It’s worth noting I’m very unemotional when i lift. I don’t get hyped or do anything to get adrenaline flowing at all apart from very rare sets where i know my mind will give out before my body.
@alex_uk it’s certainly working. Definitely looking “bigger” upper body wise and my press is very, very noticeably improved. When I started this process, I did a single at 60 that was hard as balls, approaching a max and that was fresh. I did it today, after a PR set for 8 x 3 and never looked in danger of failing.
Dang, all this talk of strength goals is tempting me to change my training.
Just kidding. My training is good. It’s really nice not knowing what I’m doing the next session. There’s no traditional progression. I know the body parts and that’s it. It’s the exact mental freedom I need.
It’s weird to get so excited about stuff that literally no-one in your real life will ever know about unless you tell them. Makes me start thinking “maybe I should go full bro bodybuilder” but it just isn’t interesting to me, and this is just a hobby after all.
Know what you mean, even when you tell people it has zero meaning to them, my wife usually asks a polite “how did training go?” But I could say I deadlifted 400kg and she’d just say something like “of that’s nice, well done”.
I’m same as you about bodybuilding, training that way just doesn’t excite me, would enjoy the physical results but over the years I’ve tried to train that way (done the tried and tested template and reactive hypertrophy and some others and I always get bored/restless within a few weeks) wish I could get into it just to make it an option for a few seasons of training.
You’re lucky! I’m too emotional. When I look at a heavy dead or squat abrbell waiting for me, anxiety comes up.
Or at the 2k row test, with the peer pressure and people are counting on you to have a high score! Before starting, my heart rate was 120 lol (resting is 50)
At the same time, when you lift 100kgs people who have no clue think you lift 400kgs, so… profits!
Push press:
1 x 70kg
2 x 70kg
1 x 75kg
1 x 75kg
1 x 80kg (PR)
1 x 80kg
Machine incline press: some
Machine row: some
Ab machine: some
Notes:
Felt like absolute shit today. Ringing in my ears, slightly sick, balance not 100%, strength way down. Nearly lost the bar backwards on the second 80kg single due to balance and probably grip strength. That never happens to me so decided that was enough heavy overhead stuff for the day and just got some basic work done on some nice, safe machines and go home.
@simo74 not the planned work, but a bar through my head doesn’t feel very anabolic so I had to adjust.
@Voxel this was more a “don’t train a movement for a month, while hammering all the involved muscles” PR. Was pretty easy though, everything considered.
I actually started doing bullshit machine training for the first many years of my training life. I don’t think I touched a barbell until after I graduated, which would be as a minimum 5 years after I started training. Thing is, my 52 sets of 10 on all the machines I liked absolutely worked. Add volume and teenage enthusiasm and I looked millions of times better than I do now.
