Thanks. Nutrition is far from my strong point.
The application is quite simple. We complicate it and then botch the execution.
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Yo @dagill2 what were your lifts in your prime.
āIn my primeā. Wow I feel old.
I have, at various times, hit:
DL: 225kg (~500lbs)
SQ: ~150kg (~~330lbs)
B: ~125kg (~~275lbs)
P: 80kg (185lbs)
1-armed pull-ups: 1 (included because I was pretty proud of it at the time, and Iām unlikely to beat it again)
Nothing very impressive, all things considering.
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I think you can be quite proud of all your lifts, pretty good ones.
Comparing to the strong dudes around here, not that far off and compared to almost anybody in the gyms they are outstanding.
Thumbs up from here Dagill.
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Thanks man. Iām pretty proud of some of them.
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Work for today:
Bench:
5 x 60kg
5 x 70kg
5 x 80kg
5 x 10 @ 60kg
Front Squat:
5 x 50kg
5 x 55kg
5 x 65kg
Complexes 2 rounds:
5 x row
5 x powerclean
5 x front squat
5 x push press
5 x back squat
Squat:
30 x 40kg
30 x 50kg
Notes:
- Feeling tired as fuck going into this. Tonsils are pretty swollen so breathing was difficult to keep me awake last night.
- Bench felt pretty clean, smooth and fast.
- Front squats felt like shit. Just because I donāt like the movement anymore, not because theyāre difficult. Theyāll happily get nixed after these six weeks.
- Complexes were fine. Presses had to become push presses after all that pressing volume.
- Squats sucked worse than last week when I accidentally did the wrong session. Could be just me feeling shit, could be the squats beforehand, could be the banded good mornings last night. Will probably cut them on the days before squatting, just in case.
Workout 3/14 done. Feels like a long way to go yet.
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Can we trade deadlifts?
Oooof. Thatās a long way to go when youāre already hating an exercise.
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Those are impressive lifts man. What was your weight in those?
@tlgains those are old lifts. Iām currently around 170kg. Optimistically aiming for the 5 plate by year end.
@Frank_C I hate front squats but they donāt feature heavily so itās not a problem. The problem is the high rep squats that only get worse and worse. Iāve still got lots of reps and lots of weight to add.
@johnimperial I donāt know, honestly. Probably in the ballpark of 185-195lbs. Seems to be about where I sit when Iām consistently lifting.
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Iām happy that I finally stopped caring about left training and squats. Iām doing whatever I want when itās time to squat so I probably wonāt be putting myself through any miserable sessions anytime soon.
Yeah, I think @TX_iron did me a big favour here by making me realise the value in 2/3 short periods of ābus benchā a year, and the remainder as park bench. Looking forward to seeing how this approach pans out. It seems like the Simo74ās and MarkKOs of this world have great success like that.
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I literally have no idea what that post meant. What is a bus bench vs a park bench. I guess 1 is where you are waiting for a bus and 1 is where you sit in the park.
Itās analogy Dan John translated from some of his theological work (as far as I know he studied theology at least as undergraduate level).
Bus bench training means your focus is improving in training. You arenāt giving thought to the process, because you are totally focused on the result. Itās like waiting for a bus, youāre only on the bus bench to catch that bus.
Park bench training is when you give all your thought to the process, not the end result. Itās like when youāre sitting on a park bench. Youāre there just to be there, in the park. So you can take the time to notice the squirrels, and the breeze and the flowers. So park bench training is about just going in and doing the work. You donāt think about the result youāre aiming for in time, instead focusing on getting the most out of every part of the training.
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Thanks for explaining. I must be tired because that still made zero sense. Lol
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It doesnāt make a huge amount of sense when you explain it really. Iām pretty sure it boils down to bus bench, constantly chasing numbers vs park bench just enjoying the process.
Now that kinda makes sense. I must be getting old because all the new ways of training and new names for what seems the same as old training styles is just plan confusing. I see all these people on here asking why they are not progressing after a few months of training and what program is the best and why donāt try have a 200lb bench after a few weeks of bench. What every happened to just plain old hard work and trying stuff out. It has worked really well for literally thousands of people in the last 80 years.
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@MarkKO pretty much summed it up. As an analogy I think it falls a bit flat. And I didnāt really like it the first time I heard it.
For me itās basically just the difference between sustainable and unsustainable effort. MMS or Super Squats are bus bench because there is no way I could sustain that effort forever. Most 531 templates would be park bench because the effort could be sustained almost indefinitely.
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It definitely isnāt his best work.