That’s the truth. We get so preoccupied about hitting every session and at the end of the day it can be counterproductive. And then there’s me… two half ass sessions in the last 3.5 weeks
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That’s alright. I just finished an awesome back workout. It’s my second session of the day and I left trained back on Friday. My body was tired, especially my posterior, but I forced the session anyway. I needed to train today to set up my week correctly.
I’m not practicing what I preach.
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I definitely just went and checked out what an awesome back workout looks like, because I don’t really know what that is. It’s become obvious my idea of back work is “do some rows/pullups in between stuff I care about”. I wonder why my back is piss weak?
In other news: no lifting again today. Can’t seem to shake this illness, starting to frustrate me now, which I guess is a good sign. Should be ready and raring to go by Sunday.
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Try the back workouts I did now during my lower body lay-off. They too were awesome.
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I’ll certainly look into it. My assistance stuff is definitely going to get changed up a bit over the 17 weeks, boredom being what it is, so I’ll probably try a load
Weight: 200.6lbs. Cut a whole lot of calories out this week with no lifting, so fully expecting to be well into the 190s by next weigh in.
Stumbled across this post (it wasn’t hard to find, since it’s the first in this log) from slightly over a year ago. I feel like progress has been really slow, and completely stagnant in places but the numbers don’t lie. Knowing me, these were probably the lifts I was most proud of at the time.
- Bench has done pretty well (+20kg E1RM), but I think there’s room for more. Looking to try a few new approaches here.
- Squat has progressed pretty well (+20kg E1RM, although I did plug in my 20 x 100kg set and came out with an e1RM of 166kg. I can dream), and even better considering how close I now am to breaking new ground. I see a new all time PR before the end of this year for sure.
- Press has absolutely exploded (+15kg e1RM). That’s the biggest progress I’ve ever seen on press by a country mile and I think that’s down to not treating the press like any other lift. If (and it’s a big if) I can keep progress going at this rate, a bodyweight press by year end could be on the cards. (I know, but dream big)
- Deadlift has moved a bit (20kg). That’s probably because the only real deadlifting I did in the whole of last year is one run through of Krocs deadlift program, and because of a total lack of focus on back work. I can make my peace with that and look to fix it.
- Bodyweight is definitely higher, and definitely not all muscle. Trying very hard to put that to the back of my mind for the minute until the time comes to shift some of the weight. Probably look to tighten up calories slowly once I’m on my new program.
Edit: I thought while I was on the e1RM site, I’d plug in the numbers for the 50 rep set I’m set to do at the end of this program. Turns out that puts my e1RM at 213kg, which is the best part of 5 plates for the metrically illiterate among you. If I manage that, I’m definitely claiming a 5 plate squat
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I don’t want to rain on the e1rm parade but I have found the higher the reps, the more inaccurate it seems to be. I definitely think it’s worth a shot a 5 plate, but don’t be crushed if it doesn’t happen.
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I think this is the beauty of strength training and tracking your progress. If I was to look at myself in the mirror or compare weight to last year I would conclude that my progress this year has been minimal or infact zero. But when I look at the numbers they show a very different result. I (like you) have made significant gains and can be proud of how well ive done.
You too should be proud of your progress, well done.
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It’s a light drizzle at best, and the English are used to that.
For squats and deadlifts, anything over five makes for highly inaccurate estimations. Bench, however, seems to be different. Your top 10 or so seems (for me anyway) to be a reasonable predictor for a max
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You’ll be closer to that than 140, I reckon.
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Maybe, that would be crazy progress, but I’ll take it
Well, it’s dangerous to calculate maxes based on 20-rep sets as pointed out above, but I’d be shocked if you could only muster up 145 or so at this stage.
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Me too, we’ll see.
That’s some serious progress my man! Every lift is up, weight is up. I’d call that a win win!
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That’s really cool Dagill, crazy progress.
Wish it was me, next year I hope I can write 2020 was the pr year.
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@mortdk @jackolee thanks guys. Looking at progress by the year is much kinder than by month or week.
@mortdk Adding 20lbs of bodyweight would certainly help. But honestly, most of it is just regaining lost strength. No new ground has been broken yet.
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Still progress nonetheless, good sir
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Weigh in today: 199.8lbs
Higher than expected, slightly disappointed but I guess that’s exactly in line with the kind of weight loss you’d expect in 4 days of moderate deficit, absent something with serious intensity tonstoke the fires.
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A little too short? Make that two weeks and you’ll see it drop more for sure
I think the fact that I’ve been consistently losing 3-4 lbs in that space of time has skewed my thinking a bit. Those squats really ramp up your metabolism something fierce. There’s definitely a way to work them into a “Lean Made Simple”, I’m just not smart enough to know what it is.
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