BBB week 1: day 1
Press: 1x5-20, 25, 30; 2x5,1x7-35kg; 5x10-25
Kb rows: 5x10/side-25lbs
Kb curls: 3x12-25lbs
3x(10 lateral raises+12 overhead tricep extension)-8lb dbs
Conditioning: 4x (7manmakers+14 alt lunges)
You’re eating, too, right?
Edit: Also, while I appreciate the intent—and I mean this in the nicest possible way—please don’t invoke me in comparison. In fact, don’t compare at all. You did conditioning, I’m guessing you didn’t want to (I never do), so you’re miles ahead already.
Might be reading this wrong, but this does not look right to me. You did the topset three times? Is that due to the lack of plates?
yes
I was supposed to do 32.5, 35 and 37.5
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Obviously I COULD order fractional plates, but the money wouldn’t be mine.
Are you doing the AMRAP version? And if not, what is your plan for the topset? This will eventually be a bit of a problem, so you should find a way to avoid it. Not a big deal on cycle 1 week 1, of course.
isn’t it supposed to be an amrap?
That’s what my spreadsheet says
For squats and deadlifts, the jumps are 5kg+ so there’s no issue there
AMRAP version is the truest and manliest version, so that’s why only a couple of us do it 
But yeah, it tends to be a problem only with the weaker of the lifts, starting with the press. If I were you, I would choose to do the repeats of the weight used on either set 3 or 4, making sure that set 6 is the only set with the higher weight. This is doing less work in total, but the point is to crush the topset once, not tire yourself out with it 3 times.
TO be clear, I’m staying pretty far from true failure. If my technique get off, I call the set even if I realistically have 3-4 (or more, by pwn’s standards) “reps” in the tank
What’s your source for that? Do you have 5/3/1 Forever?
If not, I’ll buy you a copy for Christmas.
lift vault
I bought it two months or so ago, but haven’t had the chance to read it yet
That is a perfectly valid approach. Although not the one I follow myself.
what do you do?
Get creative.
Duct tape and pop cans? Socks full of stones? Can’t be that hard to come up with 1.25 lbs.
I keep going until I want to die
To be less snarky, I worry very little about keeping form on the topset and try to move quickly. Works for me, although it is not necessarily something I recommend for others.
Step 0, check. Now…
Please read it. Cover to cover. Several times. It’s worth several times its weight in gold. It transformed my thinking so radically it’s actually hard to explain. But I think my recent progress pics give a hint.
Please read it.
I get a very bad hip shift in squats and round very badly on deadlifts when I get to that point. I’m trying to not ingrain bad technique
Yeah, if it gets downright dangerous then it is best to stop.
I always liked ankle weights as a solution.
Great way to approach it. Much safer, much easier to manage fatigue and you actually practice the lift. Only thing I would say is to perhaps keep track of how technique is starting to get off. You might identify a weak link in a big lift which if you focus on during accessory movement can make that main lift shoot up.
Any reason why? Is it an ankle or hip mobility issues? Do you feel like you have a stronger leg which you shift towards?
press- I find that I lean back more and more. I stop when either I literally can’t get the bar up or when I feel it in my low back more than my shoulders
bench- my butt comes off the bench
squat- hip shift
Deadlift- excessive low back rounding
no
I shift towards the left side. IDK why.
Single leg work helps, so I’m doing more lunges and split squats