Say what?? No, I must have missed that!
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Yeah the leg Press was taken, my leg sessions have just been deadlift, leg Press, leg curl, leg ext. it helps that my deadlift stance has my heels like 3 inches apart to balance it, so it’s all hams, and then my leg Press I just do close stance with feet pretty low so I get lots of knee flexion and it’s all quads. Then a couple hard sets of curls and extensions with slow eccentrics to finish, boom. Never a scary leg day.
I’ll be doing 3-5 singles with 225 (75%) each session. It’s an experiment so if it goes poorly then I can scrap it. I could also switch to a two days on, one day off approach instead of squatting five out of every seven days.
Also, I forgot to mention - my Golds chain is sweet, always really nice and rarely crowded facilities. We pay an annual fee, and I’ve had those at gyms and only seen them barely fix broken shit, but my gym is always getting new stuff. So in the past 2 days they’ve brought in:
Football bar
Tricep bar
New deadlift bars
Reverse hyper/GHR machine
HIP BELT SQUAT MACHINE
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Hey flap, how’s your kid doing now?
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It seems as if what he had could just have been transient synovitis. His bloodwork was indicative of a possible infection with a slightly elevated WBC count, but it’s not necessarily that. He’s definitely in less pain and running around more, and we ceased giving the anti-inflammatories, so hopefully it’s on the mend.
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Glad to hear. Hope he’s completely back to normal soon (and giving you a headache by running around too much, lol)
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That was the worst part of this whole thing besides the irrational fear - tell him to stop running, he runs, his leg hurts, he asks why it hurts, I tell him it’s because he ran, he waits til it stops hurting, he runs. Kids are stoopid.
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Sounds pretty smart to me! 
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Headed to New York for a week.
Last workout before I went, smashed it
Incline DBs
Warmup with 35s, 50s, 65s
80s x10
90s x8
65s x10 halfway up, pause, back down, all the way up rotating hands to supinated at top
Cybex chest press with squeeze superset with LTH crossovers 2x10
BB OHP 135 1x10, 95 1x30
Lateral raise banded dropsets
Band +15s, 15s, band x10
X2
Band +10s, 10s, band x10
OH DB tri ext, band ext, reverse grip cable ext, OH rope ext
Swoled the fuck up.
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I really need to put my bands in my gym bag. I have some cheap tubes that would be great for lat raises and rear delt fly’s.
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Bands are such a great investment.
I remember doing something like this once and feeling like I might black out afterwards.
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These workouts look brutal. I may need to follow suite. Can’t imagine doing 100 deadlifts in 10’ at 60%. Given that my set up is do as little as possible to make progress, I’m wondering if the “do as much as possible and not break yourself” might be worth giving a shot!
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I need to remember this. Really hits the inner chest when you rotate. Thanks for the remonder
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Apologies for the late arrival, but I thought I’d toss this on the table. It’s what I’ve been using for strength standard goals. Adjusted for weight, age, and gender. Data is self-reported, I think, FWIW.
http:www.strengthlevel dot com
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thars A pretty cool little calculator. Plugged in a few different lifts and it seemed pretty reasonable to me. Thanks man!
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for me, it’s like not that big difference between the two modalities
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I’m not so sure. The do as little as possible is not injuring me that’s for sure. And while I’m not making huge improvements, I am making small ones.
The as much as possible and not break - I’m not sure where that line is, but assume it is at least 3x more volume than I’m currently doing. When I blew my knee out, I was probably doing about 4x as much total work in a given week (between lifting, running, total time at gym, etc) as I am now, and that was clearly a step too far. But 2x might be an easy middle ground.
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It should be noted that the incredibly high frequency and intensity of those workouts led me to stop at day 15 or something out of 30 because I had a lot of hip pain. It should also be noted that @kleinhound smashed all 30 workouts, and has done other of Ryan Fischer’s workouts before, and is shredded to the bone while still gaining size. So I think, as with all things, there’s a HUGE variance from individual to individual with regards to how our body’s handle stress.
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