In that movie, Bill Murray had to undergo significant personal change to break that cycle
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I literally don’t know what’s going on…
I get here and the next day I just feel lethargic, unmotivated (not just for gym things) and stressed, not just for gym things. It feels like a switch.
Its most likely psychological but I still don’t know how to fix it
Hey Anna do you find that you get bored easily when you’re out of school?
Yes, but I have work to do (probability, reading papers, other research work…)
I just have a much harder time getting it done.
It’s not post semester decompression either bc I already decompressed for nearly a week after finals finished
The last time I ran BBB was shortly after I started lifting, maybe 2 years ago I think? It worked for me because pretty much anything would’ve worked at that point haha. However I did run 5x5 FSL more recently and that helped my deadlift a bit. I think the weight for BBB (40-60%) doesn’t really lend itself well to directly improve 1RM. More practice at a higher intensity would make more sense to me for directly increasing 1RM.
I’m only 3 weeks into BBBB right now, so it’s tough to tell this time around. My back is pretty trashed, mostly because I’ve been adding in a lot of sandbag work but I can feel it adding mass, so it’s promising.
I (and I’m sure you can relate) walk a very fine line between enough stimulus for growth and over-doing it, especially with high volume deads. I need to be absolutely certain that I eat like crazy to keep up with the work. If I don’t, I feel like shit (even after just a day or two of missed meals) and normally can’t eat myself out of the hole. Feeling tired/lethargic, inflammation in my joints, creaky ankles, elbows and shoulders, tendonitis feeling in my elbows… so I know the warning signs of getting close to the tipping point.
I also want to add that my technique is garbage. I just rip the bar off the floor. For me, I think technique work would benefit my 1RM way more than more volume.
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Other exciting update:
Little bro has a GF!!! AND she studied physics!!!
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Very. So far I’ve set two rep PR’s on my anchor, my technique feels way more solid, and I hurt a lot less after I pull. Caveat: you have to be willing to eat to support it otherwise you’ll break your body down. I dropped under 250g carbs/day for 3 days in a row and immediately felt like shit and got anxious/depressed.
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Don’t have much experience with BBB so just read up on exactly what it is and it could act as a decent volume accumulator. The % you will use will probably not be high enough to translate well to improved 1rm (even more so considering you don’t plan on being in a surplus) but if you are just looking at it as a stop gap and relying heavily on Shieko to get you the deadlift goal then go for it.
Interesting enough when reading JW’s blog on BBB he says “Do not try to add more to this program – this is the biggest mistake people make with the BBB. They think they need to do more. If you feel you fall into this category then you are clearly not working hard enough on the 5/3/1 sets and/or the 5x10 work.” which I think needs to be mentioned.
What exactly is the goal. If it’s to improve you deadlift by a certain time then I would recommend any program built for powerlifting with a peaking protocol, seeing as deadlift is a 3rd of the sport.
If you are 100% set on it being a pit stop for Shieko then BBB (or any other program where you hit the big 3) will do
great. I think what I’m missing is practice on the DL bc I’ve been doing pretty low volume on it and don’t feel comfortable
The goal is just to accumulate volume before doing a peaking plan and to switch the training stimulus since it seems that continuously running the same program indefinitely doesn’t work very well.
I probably won’t add more aside from 50 burpees (~3 min of work) daily. I’ll porbably still have to break up sessions to get assistance work in though
I ran BBB quite some time ago, can’t really speak to its effectiveness for DL. I definitely grew and was a bigger stronger person by the end, but I was new to “real” training (still am LOL) and like @boilerman ANY logical program was going to help at that point.
I’d say if you want to run BBB, do it! If instead you want to focus on your deadlift, maybe some deadlift-focused programming? As has been said - technique is a big part of it. I got a lot of benefit from watching Brian Alsruhe’s videos on technique.
I know I wasn’t included in the round up, but the purpose of BBB is building muscle/adding bodyweight. It’s not a program intended for improving the lifts. The Sheiko program being discussed would be for that purpose.
During accumulation phases, a greater degree of variety is employed. It’s a LESS specific phase of training, because the point is to accumulate volume and shore up weaknesses. It’s off season work. When we intensify and peak, we get more specific.
Trying to make the two go together is silliness. Conjugate would be the answer if that is the goal: not phased training.
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hmm. This sounds potentially interesting since I’ve never run a “conjugate style” program.
I’ll look for a template that doesn’t require fancy equipment
Most of Brian Alsruhe’s stuff is conjugate-esque. No fancy equipment needed. It’s never needed for ANY conjugate approach honestly: it’s just helpful.
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I might give dark horse a try if I’m not too much of a pussy.
Doing conditioning before main work honestly scares me
Fear is most definitely an observable variable in your experience here.
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The other option would be to do the conditioning later or after the lifting
Sartre would argue there are even MORE options. But fear is also one of them.
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To be clear, when I first started I’d ALWAYS start my sessions off with a WOD of sorts
I stopped doing that and am not sure if I’m willing to go back.
Sounds like it would be a poor fit then.
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Won’t be long before they are authoring papers together, just make sure you don’t walk in on them.
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