I know you get a lot of opinions and advice on your training on here and I don’t want to pile on with useless information. But I think you’re doing great. I don’t know how you go about your programming, but on days when things feel “incredibly hard,” I don’t think you’re hindering your progress at all if you back off the intensity (weight on the bar) a little bit. I know it’s nice to hit the numbers, but I’ve recently had a lot of success doing RPE-style training (not preaching RPE to anybody or even advocating for it). It just allows me to get useful work done on days when I may not be “feeling it,” and I think it’s better to have a slightly lighter DL just for that week, than fatiguing myself to the point of having to skip training altogether the next day.
You obviously know a lot about training and work very hard, so this is not even advice. Just a perspective and anecdote about what has been working very well for me lately.
Squat: 1x5-75,1x3-85, 1x3-95, 1x4-90, 1x5-85,80, 1x6-75,70
Lying leg raise: 6x12/side
Deadlift: 1x10-80,90, 1x9, 3x8-95kg, superset with 20 air squats
Snatch grip DL: 4x3-80kg
Leg extensions: 4x8-85lbs, 4x8-75lbs
1arm kbs: 4x16 alternating-40lb kb
Bodyweight leg work: 5min walking lunges
this wasn’t too taxing per day, but it felt like my muscles wouldn’t fire…. I felt strong on rep 1 then felt shaky after so reps weren’t happening, not burning or Out of breath- squats plateauing…. Deadlifts felt strong
Update: @SvenG i made the mistake of way way over complicating an assignment. We were asked to “construct a metric”. Prof just wanted a description. I thought he wanted us to actually do calculations and stuff. In the first office hours, he got quite invested in this so he gave me a bunch of references and sources. Of course I read all of them and tried to apply the stuff. That took 10hpurs or so. I got stuck so I went to office hours yesterday and he told me to run some calculations. I got back from office hours at 4:30 and finished this at 9…… but hey, I found something interesting
Deadlift: 1x5-100, 1x3-115, 1x4-125kg!!! 1x5-115kg, 1x6-105, 100
Leg raises: 6x15
Front squat: 1x4-60kg, 8x4-55kg EMOM
Good Mornings: 3x8-50kg, superset with 20 alt lunges
Rows: 1x6,5; 4x4 EMOM, all at 50kg
Conditioning: 8x2 flights of stairs, up and down-45lb db, alternate each flight, 1min rests
holy crap this was an amazing workout- super stoked about 125 for 4, actually felt fine during the rest of this
Update:
This semester is kicking my arse. @SvenG every day for the past two weeks, I’ve been waking up at 3am with a proof or definition stuck in my head. Either that, or nightmares of me getting killed bc I can’t do maths
With that said, (former) contractual counterparty is forcing me to take a break tomorrow. We’re going shooting
