Not for me! I’ve only follower one program before and hated the rigidity of it. I need to be able to mix things up and make adjustments on the fly. I’m for doing your own thing as long as you have the mental discipline to see it through. Good luck with the 12 eggs 
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You have results though, brother. What you are doing is obviously not spinning your wheels.
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One could argue that what you do is a program.
You always focus on fatigue, time under tension, and the pump. It’s consistent. I’d call that a program. 
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Work for today:
AM: 10 x 10 kb swings (36kg)
PM:
Bench: worked up to 77.5 x 10
Then: 5 x 10 @60kg ss. 10 db rows @30kg
Kroc rows: 20 each side @ 30kg
Side partial raises x 60
Y-raises: 3 x 12
Cable lateral: 3 x 12
Squats: 6 x 3 @ 100kg, 1 x 6 @ 100kg
Notes:
- knackered again today, probably need to schedule a break or deload soon.
- Bench PR, I think. I’ve noticed I must be forgetting to record every PR in my PR document, so it may not be. Solid, comfortable reps though, so happy with that.
- Didn’t really feel the rows in my back much today. I might try lightening the load and moving slower next time.
- Squats felt really stable, leg strength is more than enough, hence why I put the last 2 sets in one. Bracing and core are definitely the weak spots. Right knee is starting to grumble a bit as well, another reason to consider a short break.
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I like how casually you drop that you just hit a PR haha.
Thanks man. I honestly expect rep PRs nearly every workout though, apart from when I smash my chin in with the bar, so I don’t get too excited everytime. You can bet once I retest 1RMs after Christmas I’ll be making some noise about them though.
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Wish i could say the same about rep prs happening every workout lol. Well I’ll be rooting for you come Christmas then.
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I feel the same way @jackolee. I’m just hoping being a newb and doing this doesn’t come back to bite me!!
He does this often 
. Casually mixes in PR’s just all sneaky like.
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Jackolees guide to staying 175 for life lol
Feel free to follow me as I hit peak performance and follow it up with six months of working around an injury. I follow that phase with an actual surgery and rehab.
Oh, wait…you are copying me.
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Haha! I only copy cool people though so feel honored!
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Your transformation was fucking unreal dude.
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Thanks man.
Few things to note though:
- I only lift twice a week, so recovery time is fairly high
- I’m still recovering lost strength. I’ve lifted all of this and more previously so my rate of progress should be much higher than those building strength for the first time. I’m genuinely slightly shocked at how slow it’s coming back.
- As noted above, I regularly forget to note down my rep PRs so its quite likely I’m just comparing to old PRs
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Do you note the rep PRs and then compare the estimated 1 rep maxes? Or is it sort of, I lifted this weight before with this many reps so I have to beat that by atleast 1 rep
I used to do it the first way, but it sets a pretty high bar. Now I just have a document with rep records for every weight, plus the date achieved. If I was smarter I’d keep track of historic ones as well but I’m not and didn’t.
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This is the secret to greatness, shhhh don’t tell anyone
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This is the hope certainly. Yet to see it materialise, but it certainly seems to be a sweet spot for me in terms of recovery and plain fitting it into life.
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Work for today:
Some minutes treadmill incline walking. Short on time so cranked the speed up to get my calories in. Definitely pushed the speed here. Still hit my 200 calories aim though. Will try and throw some kb about later.
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I did not do this.
I did some more treadmill walking this morning though.
Nutrition has been absolutely atrocious recently as well. Needs to be sorted out soon, Christmas is on the way, then before you know it I’m into a 6 month hypertrophy block where God only knows what kind of crap I’ll justify to myself. I think I need to commit to logging daily myfitnesspal. Maybe transferring the results to here daily, it’s not like I don’t log on most days anyway. I’ll start tomorrow.
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