Demigod before 35 (Aldebaran)

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I had you in mind, of course I would share it with you, unless it would make spiral downwards into an abyss of overthinking.

It’s more of a compendium, went through most of it briefly, and it’s mostly stuff you can find for free on the net here or his website. It’s just a 200 pages diaporama, nothing like a 2 days seminar (but still worth 350€ lol). Also this is from the original neurotyping, and it has changed quite since then.

TBH I’m 100% sure almost all of my classmates won’t use it or even bother read it… Meanwhile you could see my raging erection from miles rofl. Most of them if not all, already have enough trouble digesting the copious amount of informations we have to learn. They all have their niche sport (CrossFit, bodybuilding, dancing etc) and 90% aren’t bothered with having a broader scope, and just want their diploma and go coach their niche, or they are too young.

Supinated work aggravates it. But the root cause was my job. At least this is what caused it (brushing aggressively floors for hours every days, then lifting heavy fries baskets… So, I’ll be free in may (I hope so)).

Unfortunately this will bore me, so it will be crazy volume (through WODs)

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I appreciate that. I’m much more interested with what CT is doing with “regular” programming rather than neurotyping. At the moment it appears he’s cleaning up ideas he’s shared in the past, and I don’t feel as if I’m his audience or maybe ever was. But now especially, his writings tailor for a different athlete/weekend warrior. Climbing might well be my sport and then I don’t need full-body training three times a week and a gap workout.

As Dan John would say, my squat and deadlift are strong enough for the sport. My press should be higher, there’s no point at all in benching and I should substitute it entirely for Dips if my shoulder can take it. My core should be stronger.

Here’s an idea I had about pendulum bodybuilding you might like to mull over,

  1. the first structural week is at a surplus, always,
  2. the second is either maintenance or surplus
  3. Third week is at maintenance or deficit.

Rinse repeat and I imagine recomp guaranteed.

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Honestly neurotyping is more for coaches and identifying behaviour of their clients, as a tool to provide them with the most adequate programing. Just like Poliquin did. That’s why my teacher gave us this, and I am more interested in the psychological side of his diapo, precisely for this. I had devised a questionnaire that I gave clients before interviews, and this resource will probably help me improve it, or improve my assessment during face to face / facetime interviews.

I completely agree. I was thinking, I’m a jack of all trade, like a Crossfit athlete. So i want to be stronger. Not crazy strong minde you, but yeah a 4 plate squat and a 3 plates bench would be amazing as fuck

I think this is a really good idea. I’m sure I would embrace “diet” variety as I have with training

Oh and I wanted to ask you, who remembers and bookmark everything, about something I tried to find back on this forum, without success. It was about CT’s program for a youth who wanted to do Crossfit and he presented like 3-4 weeks of his training (stuff like zercher squat + rower, back squat + carries). He would start every session with a shoulder routine because he had instable shoulders, thing like external rotations and various isolation movements, and I would have really like to do it as my own warm-up routine to reinforce my poor left shoulder.

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Don’t recall ever seeing that. But there’s an article on Thibarmy about pain-free pressing that’s better than doing nothing

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@aldebaran is it this one?

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Rofl you’re a God!

Two years ago, I got inspired by this day 1 to create a fat loss program for a guy which worked wonders (25 kgs)

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Searched #christian-thibaudeau-coaching shoulders crossfit

Haha

Cool, also diet.

Looks fun. I miss being able to lift six times per week. But I do love me some climbing though. I did have stints where I’d be in the gym at 5AM and then climbing at 17 but with a full-time job this was… Not my sanest period.

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Damn I only used crossfit or shoulders… Thank you anyway!

Yeah diet is the most important anyway

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My pleasure. My shoulder always feel better when I practice my handstand. Also wrists. Do handstands. They are cool you crossfitter you. Don’t you need to do both handstand walks and handstand push-ups?

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Always hated this part of Crossfit. Such a skill thing, not a fitness thing.

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I am looking forward to that

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Yeah but I’m not a crossfitter per se. I can do HSPU strict or cheated, not walks though. But I almost never do them because of my very sensitive skin, staying with my head downwards creates petechias.

Considering bear walks and other four limb walks as they are very good shoulder work. Also I love HBT work for that reason…

For sure, I never managed DU. And when I was doing Crossfit I couldn’t even do kipping pull-ups, so I would do everything strict ughhh

I’ve done a few these last two weeks if you scroll up. I like it actually, especially with friends.

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Have you tried lizard walks?

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Also,

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I mean, I won’t do that in the gym rofl

21/12 - Powerlifting session

One of my teacher is a powerlifter, currently aiming for a Europe podium in IPF master (685 total atm), did a 2h session at his gym for a tiny fee, I wanted to work on my technique and have an external eye only on me. Well he watched back the vids from some of my CREPS sessions. used the stiff bar and metal Eleiko plate for the first time. Here’s a breakdown of what we did IRC:

Back squat 1 reps at 130, 140, 150.
Paused back squat (2 big seconds) 2 x 2 with 110, 100 kgs
6 secs eccentric back squat 1 rep with 100 kgs
Front squat 2 x 5 with 80 kgs

Deadlift got up to 1 x 3 with 160kgs
Stato-dynamic 110 kgs (I think?) 1 x 3 with pause just over the floor, 1 x 3 with pause at knees

I also did some seated leg curls with 2/1 technique afterwards

Not great day energy wise, left knee had been in pain for a week (but also I didn’t do work for 4 days, didn’t do my recovery or cardio stuff etc, drank alcohol and ate garbage so I can only blame myself), drank and slept little saturday for my sister’s birthday, and slept very badly yesterday (some girl added me on IG, chatted, then 2 days later propose her to get a drink and she says that nothing will ever happen between us, I thank her for her honesty, then later she sends me stuff like “typical men, once you say this no one’s there anymore blabla bla you should keep responding not to be an ass, out of respect, men are all the same pigs etc”. Honestly it hit me quite. I have chatted 4 girls in 8 months. And there I’m called a carrion, a bad person. Really felt like shit atm)

But in the end still went up to 150 kgs, and honestly I was pretty tight! No valgus, I could contain it, very good bracing! On the last two sets, coach had me tighten my belt like a mad Ed Coan, showed me how to use the rack to do so lol! And I read here that we shouldn’t tight it too much?

So my technique is actually clean, high bar is suited to me. I just have to focus and brace hard, take my time. Like one rep of front squat I was a bit distracted by a conversation behind me, went a bit too fast and poof out of the “couloir”, slightly bending forward immediately. I have a mental cue of the proper bar path and what to force on, and no stress anymore about my form.

Same for deadlift. I bled like a freaking pig though. Felt what I had to tighten up on my back, which muscle to stay tense there and keep a good form. This is exciting. With the leg fatigue my hips were a tiny bit too high and I was using less quads, but the rest is very good. Stato-dynamic just over the floor (à la @guineapig should really do me good)

Also there were some of his pupils afterwards, nice to see bigger dogs, powerlifters and how they train. This whole session really was an eye opener on what form to strive for, what RPEs to shoot. And YEAH I was going too hard, everything RPE 10, when I think about it.

In the end I have a good excuse to work a little bit less hard, focus on technique, a bigger volume of ground work to progress in the long run

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Hey man I’ve been following your log for a while now and I really like it :+1:.
Could you give me a quick ‘what is what’ (like age, goals, stats or what not)? Also your education program (?) sounds interesting. What is it that you’re studying/ do for a living?

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That all sounds like quite an adventure… FWIW u seem like a good dude, probs too good for that chick. Dodged a bullet methinks.

I’ve made friends thru social media but dates not so much. Seems kinda too impersonal to me.

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You know you’re not to blame. Although I can relate and know I would probably react as you do, it makes no sense and you owe nothing to her

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Yeah I said this to both my best friend, who are (one was) real lady killers, and they told to brush it off, most likely a manipulative childish girl. But it still stings when you’re not used to this!

Feel you there, I’m not on any app, not putting too much effort into this but if an occasion arises, I’m not going to discard it ahah

Thanks you my man. Here it is:
• 30 years-old
• 6"1’ / 185 cm
• 86 kgs atm
• around 15 years of sports (mainly handball, football, US football)
• around… hard to remember. 5 years of training seriously. 2-3 more of not seriously!
• Current lifts I could do any day (comp rules): squat 150, deadlift 200, bench 115, OHP 75, C&J 100, Snatch 75

Right I’m studying at the Center of Resources, Expertise and Sports Performance in Montpellier. It’s a sports facilities which holds France’s Volleyball, Handball, Basketball, Athleticism youth and training centers, along with some other international-level sports facilities I’m less acquainted. I’m studying to be a coach in O-lifting, bodybuilding, and S&C there. It’s the best Coaching education you can get in the country, with legendary coaches coming here just for us (like Marc Vouillot, who is the guy that introduced powerlifting to France, and which principles and dogmas etc were followed for 30 years here). Honestly I’m having the best time of my life! Even with the 'rona.

Right now having the best grades by a good margin (18/20) and honestly this is the first time I feel pressure about grades. Like I don’t want to pass, like I did, I want to stay on top and end Valedictorian. I’m going to study hard these holydays (which I haven’t, but bless my really good memory)

Goals long-term would be to have consistent 180 squat, 220 dead, 140 bench, then I’d be very happy and try to focus on other athletic qualities

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Thanks for the recap.

Your education program sounds pretty damn amazing! I’ve graduated in the field as well and have acquired a number of certificates, so I’m always genuinely interested in these kind of things.

Is your job history also in the general field of sports?
Strong clean and jerk btw! I fucking hate cleans, haha.

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