From some of what you paraphrased above, you have every reason to be skeptical.
But doesn’t matter. Rom progression it is and things are going to get better from here!
That might be my awful paraphrasing, I wasn’t 100% sure what he was saying, but like you say ROM progression should hopefully see me right, I was just narced that last session even with a much lower ROM and weight my back my was still being uncooperative.
See how it goes next session.
Daily work:
5 rounds:
Chins: 5
Dips: 10
Ghr: 5
Ab roll: 5
Y raises: 8
Felt a bit harder today, yesterday’s training session has given me doms in most of the areas this circuit hits, adding in some extra calories (not from chocolate or ice cream for a change). Might make a push to 220 depending how things go, I’m enjoying training at the moment and feel like I’m at a stage of being able to push hard enough to make gaining worthwhile (ignoring the minor irritation in the back, which I’m hoping will be a thing of the past very soon).
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Daily work:
5 rounds:
Chins X 5
Dips X 10
Ghr X 5
Y raises X 8
Tired, cold and feeling slightly under the weather, didn’t want to do this at all, hopefully I feel a bit more human by squat time later…
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Well if I didn’t want to do my daily work, I wanted to squat even less
Axle squat:
48.5, 68.5, 88.5, 108.5, 128.5, 148.5, 161kg
Not sure using an axle had any benefit, hurt my wrists and gave me some serious stretch (borderline strain) in my pecs. Won’t be making a reappearance. 148.5 felt heavy and nearly called it there but having just seen @Koestrizer’s PR I felt like I needed to get after it. 161kg felt good then I watched the video and realised why, it was high!
Punishment:
Axle squat rest pause:
108.5kg X 10, 8, 8
Ohp:
20, 40, 50, 60, 70kg X 3
Got a work phone call between squats and ohp, killed my time, was going to pump my guns, might do that after daily work tomorrow.
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I feel honored to serve as inspiration. Good job getting after it, mate!
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What’s a high squat look like for you, just a quick twitch of the knees?
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161kg:
108.5kg rest pause:
Stairs/getting up from seated is really unpleasant right now! Off to buy an absurd amount of coffee (the stuff I drink is on sale!!)
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Haha, timing, just posted the video.
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Okay, at least it is good to know you are judging squats by normal standards these days.
And listening to Beartooth! WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU MATE.
Oh man you and your came work, haha. I don’t think the 161 kg squat was much different depth wise from the 108 kg. So it’s not like you chickened out because of the weight. I mean all judging from a video in which we don’t even see your hip but most likely no reason to beat yourself up.
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Yeah, honestly I was expecting something way higher, that just about passes the home gym test.
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Haha I love Beartooth. Think it was my top played artist of 2019.
Yea my camera work is significantly lacking.
Yea definitely wasn’t a psychological thing I was happy with the weight, just felt I’d hit depth so to see that video was a bit annoyed. The 108.5kg I just wanted to blast through a ton of reps wasn’t worried about the depth as much.
Haha good to know.
I’m still not that fussed about depth, otherwise I’d do something about it.
Daily work:
5 rounds:
Chins X 5
Dips X 10
GHR X 5
Ab roll X 5
Y raises X 8
Catch up gun pumpage:
Cables - 30kg
Curl
S/s Tri pd
Back and forth between the two in sets of 10 until 100 was reached - no rest.
Carrying a lot of fatigue, eating well, well this work was fueled entirely by lemon and sugar pancakes, but most of the time it’s solid food choices for gaining, starting to sit at 212/213 more often. Looking forward to not doing any work tomorrow except maybe walking with the kids.
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This made me wonder if you and @dagill2 have been running 1600m or a mile…??
Do you set it at an Incline? I always heard 1 or 2% would make it more like running outside because it mimics the forward propulsion.
Also, I’ve done the 100 rep press down, as well. It’s a good change of pace. I’m still not sure which direction to go - high rep or more traditional so I seem to be going back and forth.
I’m in a similar boat. I’m not convinced I should quit; I’d just prefer to stop the suffering.
I just had a thought about a mile progression that’s similar to the deadlift ROM progression. I could pick my pace and run that for 3 minutes x 3. Bump it to 3:30 and then 4:00 until I’m at an 8 min mile. I could adjust the “sets” to always get 8-10 minutes of running done. 
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@dagill2 does his mile at the playground, so nobody is sure how far it really is. Probably like 890 meters.
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It’s a British mile 
To be fair, all miles are British miles.
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There’s the official mile, and the one brits actually use when trying to look impressive 
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I’m just going to start running the 1500m like they do at the end of the decathlon.
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