A Friendly Challenge - Battling Program ADD

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503

Seems to tick a few boxes for you.

504

Or, Do This Routine Instead of That Dumb One

505

Hmmmmā€¦ I thought we kinfa had to commit to the challenge for thsi.

506

Oh Iā€™m not doing the secret Santa I want to do Mountaindog real bad. I was just picking the brains of the fellow muscle people here :slight_smile:

@Voxel yeah the Zombie one, adapted slightlyā€¦ Iā€™ve never tried it

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507

On the off chance that your lifts drop 20lbs and you get fatter yet you didnā€™t change a solitary rep, set or exercise the whole time, THAT ought to be triumph.

508

Starting secret santa program tomorrow.

Training max and (PR) in lbs

Push press 215(225)
Front squat 305(265)
Bench 295(325)
Deadlift 385(445)

Letā€™s see what happens in a couple months!

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509

I hope it works for ya! It will be interesting see how it goes. I am going to try it when I am done with the other two.

510

Aaaaand I think Iā€™m throwing in the towel on this one. Just realizing Iā€™m not very attentive while at the gym and not really enjoying the workouts. Thatā€™s the main reason I want to switch things up. A side reason is that a lot of the movements just donā€™t feel great on my joints, must be getting old.

Did learn a lot over the past month though so I think this was a worthwhile experiment.

  1. Made some improvements in front squat technique and found that 3 working sets is plenty for several days of quad DOMS. Plan on keeping these in rotation.
  2. I have a handful of stability/mobility issues to figure out
  3. I donā€™t like partial ROM exercises
  4. Sumo actually feels kinda good and Iā€™m transitioning to be a cheater on deadlifts
  5. Iā€™ve been doing facepulls wrong
  6. I donā€™t mind once a week frequency on upper body movements but prefer twice a week on lower.

So in the spirit of the ADD thread, Iā€™ll be hopping programs

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511

I think you have this backwards. :man_shrugging:

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512

Iā€™ve actually considered doing a couple sets of squats/deadlifts to get out of benching :sweat_smile:

513

I just feel like upper body movements make a lot of sense for once a week frequency. Vertical push/pull one day, horizontal the other day. Throw in a little isolation 1 workout and loaded carries the other and youā€™re set.

I donā€™t feel like legs have that same versatility, for me itā€™s usually squat, hip thrust or stiff leg dl, hamstring curl x2 a week. Itā€™s entirely possible Iā€™m doing leg day wrong though.

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514

Although Iā€™m running a 4 day ā€˜bro splitā€™ I actually feel better on upper body bro style and lower body twice a week. My legs donā€™t feel like lead if Iā€™m doing a squat movement and ham one twice a week.

I just canā€™t fit all that into my working week so just hammer my legs one day and have them ache like a bitch for a week.

Power to the kingbeef workout. Iā€™ve been cutting these past 6 weeks and have gained strength on all movements.

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I guess I should have reported back here. I probably made it 4-5ish weeks of workouts, but even then I was ā€œcheatingā€ a lot and doing my own things.

I also learned some stuff:

  1. I do like ramping up my weights
  2. I donā€™t like feeling like an asshole in gyms with which Iā€™m not familiar (I didnā€™t like doing circuits in gyms when traveling)
  3. I did like getting my heart rate way up - Iā€™m going to keep some sprinting or intervals or hard cardio or whatever
  4. I donā€™t have pure strength goals
  5. All the ā€œmain stuffā€ is pretty much the same no matter what we do, I think
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