That’d be easier for me in a home gym. Yes, I have a fragile ego in the gym sometime 
Working on it though.
But also, I paid for a gym card and they have really nice machines, I’ll happily use them sometime. Although I will say this, being able to do the same thing, achieve the same mind muscle connection during a compound lift I view as the superior alternative because that means you have integration figured the fuck out.
When I have access to machines, I use them too. Machines are great. Never saw a reason to only use one tool.
10s realization
43 pull ups
3x3 jumps
Deadlift
125x5
140x3
165x1
175x15
Belt squat
+45x14,13
+40x16
+35x14
+25x25
Front Rack BSS 50x3x12
Standing ab wheel progression 11,10,6 finish with 24 rollouts from knees
More pull ups to 50
100 band pull aparts
Tabata assault bike
It was an okay session but was shooting for more on the deadlift.
I should stop throwing these pity parties for myself. I know I seem whiny. I get frustrated from time to time because it’s almost unfathomable to me that, for example, squatting 135 or pressing 65 for reps is still a struggle for me. And that I haven’t pulled two plates on a straight bar before. I imagine this is equivalent to a male lifter lifting not like a total idiot for a few years and still struggling to squat 225 for reps. But I think most people feel they should be better than they already are.
I’m telling you, change shit up, but finish Juggernaut first, I like seeing your AMRAP totals compared to mine. Periodization, like Thib was talking about in his article a few days ago, and like Pwn talks about all the time, is the way to go. I’m confident that my strength block that I ran before my current cycle pushed me up significantly. Put the vast majority of your focus into pure strength or pure muscle gain or cardio or whatever, it, like weight change, is only temporary. If you hate it, don’t do it again!
Just wondering, how did the instapot almond yoghurt turn out?
@Bagsy since you were friendly with volume templates what happens if you go to rest/pause city? Trade volume for insane-o intensity.
@heretolog If I don’t feel too fluffy after this, then that might be a good way to go. I must say that I seem hung up on numbers when I’m really not that much. I dig the small progress over time; the frustration comes from the weight on the bar being the same for 2-3 years. I don’t care about becoming good at 1RMs, but the numbers gotta go up at least eventually…
Your arguments don’t not make sense to me. But I’m also making the case that I’m weak enough that simply lifting weights without thinking much about it if at all should work 
@anna_5588 I haven’t had the time to set it up yet, but I think I’ll be trying within the next couple of days. With coconut milk though. I don’t own a blender.
@Voxel Jim’s rest pause training in Beyond seemed interesting to me and I almost decided to try it. I don’t feel it’s that radically different though. Some of the more “out there” 5/3/1 programs to me would be Coffinworm, Morning Star, etc
Well, rest/pause is just a intensity technique. But I keep forgetting you train at home.
Have you tried double progression at all? Like, start with 6 reps, increase weight when you get ten reps on all your sets? Or higher still
I am a fan of the notion that, if things that are supposed to work aren’t working, do things that aren’t supposed to work. You’ve got nothing to lose. It’s how I found ROM progression. Might be time to try some old school programs that we’ve “evolved beyond”.
Maybe I am doing the same stuff over and over yet expecting different results. Gee, I don’t want to abandon JM as soon as I’ve started. I haven’t even started the second wave, so I have no room to critique it. I think I’ll try to be less of a fatphobe for a bit, and if it doesn’t work by the end, then I know. Think there are 11 weeks left or so
@Voxel You’ve watched this recently or something? lol
@T3hPwnisher Yeah, not a terrible suggestion. I guess I’ll do some reading over the holidays, maybe find something more out of the ordinary to try early next year.
Haha, no, am I suggesting similar things?
Yeah, you might like that specific time point.
Similar, but he has a static volume requirement of 36 reps. With double progression you’d have that the volume goes up every session and then as you increment weight you conceivably have a lower volume. At times, I used that as a deload strategy so that when I incremented the weight I’d have to do the next workout at the rock bottom of the rep range even though I presumably could’ve done more. Its not sustainable for very long and a scheduled deload that’s more genuine is arguably better.
Personally, I don’t trust myself to self-direct my programming that much ahaha
The leg work has been done
If you stall in a range you can replace it with a different one. As in, plateau with 4-6? Okay, do 6-8. Then 3-5, then 8-10.
It’s 531 warped to a double progression model. It caused a… Thing on the boards. But it works. I ran it when I could keep my calories where they needed to be. Made steady progress.
I also ran it for a short period of time. Liked it a lot, and you get a lot of work done in a short time period. I ended up burning myself out by trying to progress too quickly though. Once all the drama started going down I dropped it. Didn’t want to be caught up in all that.
@Bagsy do you do low rep, high weight work? I see a ton of sets with 12+ reps on your amrap stuff but how often do you let your reps get below 5?
The program didn’t cause a thing, I don’t think anyone criticised anything about the program other than the claimed stats of the “author”
@Voxel Not sure if you’re providing an example or suggesting this specifically. If the latter, I have absolutely no idea who this person is. Honestly, it looks like I could find this on a generic bodybuilding website.
@boilerman Not really, since I was doing 5/3/1 for awhile. Maybe it’s because I don’t do high intensity work, but it’s difficult for me to find a sweet spot with the TM. I’d usually get 8-10+ reps on the top sets, not setting any PRs most of the time anyway, and then get to the 5/3/1 week after 2-3 cycles and get 4, maybe 5 grindy reps. This was most apparent for squatting and pressing. And because Jim preaches 5 fast reps, I’d reset my TM, and repeat this vicious cycle for ages. A lot of the times I knew I wouldn’t be able to lift my TM for 5 reps, yet I’d still get those double digit reps for a short while until I plateau at the same weight as before.
I really bought in (and still do) to the sub-max training. I don’t know if this is all because I don’t eat enough, I am inherently better at reps, or I don’t practice higher intensity enough. I think this is partially a female lifting phenomenon, but it’s probably mostly because of those factors. I do adore 5/3/1 (clearly), but yeah… dunno.