Thanks for the response
Yeah I get it
Not much 
just an observation. I found it interesting that this week was different. I thought you might know why.
Surprisingly, I only got up twice ( which is standard for me
I don’t like small meals - I just don’t feel satisfied and end up overeating
I don’t.
Are you sure this is related to meal frequency and not just bordering on a deficit for the most time making it up on one night per week?
I know your weight is up (congrats), but seeing as how you eat… ~50% more than your daily intake on a single day that would be two hundred extra calories per day (just doing crude, not entirely correct maths).
I didn’t think small meals was for me either but only after spending significant time in a surplus did I realise what hunger was not a consequence of previous undereating.
Well, I’ve been pretty consistent at 41kg, but now that I’m done with the swings challenge, I’ll probably start gaining due to lowered expendicture
Week 2: day1- lower
Warmup: 100jumping jacks + 3x(jump squat circuit- 2bodyweight,2-11lb paint can,1-25lbs)
Pistols: 5x6-25lbs
Sprints: 3 suicides (5m,15m, 25m)w/1:2 work rest- (37sec,38sec,39sec)
Shrimp squat: 3x15/side- 11lb paint can
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I’m thinking about putting weight gain on hold until I get back into the gym. I’m trying to push these lighter weight workouts but they just don’t have the same intensity. @T3hPwnisher said that packing on muscles requires increasing food AND training.
What do you guys think?
The one thing I imagine you’d have a tough time accomplishing is creating adequate muscle damage through mechanical loading but there are three other ways to trigger hypertrophy.
accentuated eccentrics → mTor activation
muscle fiber fatigue → go to failure, even if it takes you more reps
lactic acid build-up → accomplish burn, reap gains.
Those pistols are definitely tough (ie hard rpe) but it’s just not the same as having heavy weight on the bar… 
During the session, I feel like I’m pushing, but there’s always a niggling thought that I could have done more
If you employ thesw techniques and still feel as if you have more to give follow up with an isometric hold to failure (if safe)
If you still feel like you have more to give maybe you have to critically analyse your rep quality. I can bang out a hundred swiss ball crunches but I can also reach failure with ten of them…
Honestly, it’s more mental than anything and that’s my problem
I might throw in 10x10 pistols once a week for shits and giggles- deepwater style
And I can’t speak for your subjective experience but I feel as if I’m pushing faaaar earlier than when I’m actually drained. I can do an exercise and absolutely feel as if rep 3 is “heavy” but only at rep 10 am I actually done.
To elaborate, if I perform a work set where the intent is to elicit a hypertrophy response through intensity then afterwards this is me,
My mind will still tell me at about the one-quarter or halfway-point of such a set “surely, you’re done mate?”
In that case, I’ve been severely under training 
My endurance is good but I struggle with intensity
My heuristic for choosing a work weight is if after one rep I think “that’s probably too heavy” (if I think “that’s _definitely _ too heavy” then it usually is) assuming that rep didn’t require body English.
My lower body definitely feels pretty trashed right now, but now I’m questioning why I didn’t throw in goblet squats to failure
At the same time, I felt crap Saturday after Friday’s workout so I must be doing something right…
I don’t feel like crap neither on the next day nor immediately after the session. Once my vision restores I’m good to go for the next exercise. But then I do pretty low volume.
Probably just me adjusting to the new training… and being mentally weak
You aren’t mentally weak.
I’ve never done anything that’s high volume but anecdata, it seems that feeling like crap might be a side effect (observing what others write).
That’s not to say it doesn’t work though.
You know the answer to this Anna. Weight is a means to an end, tension in the muscle.
If you are creating the same tension through other means your response is at least very similar.
If your muscles can only do 3 reps on a pistol there’s no difference to that muscle to a 3 rep squat.
Sheiko worked for me. I can’t wait to get back
Approximately one year later.
Not sure your weight gain of 2 pounds per year needs to be put on hold.
My 45lb kB arrives next week!