Attack my Weaknesses

Training Powerlifting
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[quote]vision1 wrote:
Hanley wrote:
THat was all out effort tho right??

The problem that I see with many people doing chins is that they go all out every week on them.

Would you go all out with max poundage on a bench press or squat and then wonder why it isn’t increasing???

Yah that was pretty much all out, but It was my testing week (in my program). I think your right though, I go all out too often. I go to almot failure everytime I do bench press, and that’s the the exercise where I have had the lease progress.

Would it sound about right to go 1 rep short of failure on the last rep of the last set for each exercise?
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Yes, you shouldn’t be training to failure on every exercise all the time. How frequently are you training anyway?

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You can look at my log if you want, but my set up is like this:

W1: 4 days
W2: 4 days
W3: 4 days
W4: 4 days
W5: 2 days

W1: practise new movements, figure out 3RM on main exercise

W2: 8x3 on main exercise

W3: 4x5 on main exercise

W4: 3x8 on main exercise

W5: re-test 3RM on main lifts, no accessory lifts

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[quote]vision1 wrote:
You can look at my log if you want, but my set up is like this:

W1: 4 days
W2: 4 days
W3: 4 days
W4: 4 days
W5: 2 days

W1: practise new movements, figure out 3RM on main exercise

W2: 8x3 on main exercise

W3: 4x5 on main exercise

W4: 3x8 on main exercise

W5: re-test 3RM on main lifts, no accessory lifts[/quote]

why don’t you just use the 8x3 workout(s) to test your 3RM? I think it’s a waste to designate a workout just for testing.

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[quote]bruinsdmb wrote:
vision1 wrote:
You can look at my log if you want, but my set up is like this:

W1: 4 days
W2: 4 days
W3: 4 days
W4: 4 days
W5: 2 days

W1: practise new movements, figure out 3RM on main exercise

W2: 8x3 on main exercise

W3: 4x5 on main exercise

W4: 3x8 on main exercise

W5: re-test 3RM on main lifts, no accessory lifts

why don’t you just use the 8x3 workout(s) to test your 3RM? I think it’s a waste to designate a workout just for testing.[/quote]

Because it’s also a deload week. + I do spend some extra time for more volume after or before testing.