Bad sleep but all goods now. And its still smith front squat sorry il edit that
Its weird when i dont have school i feel much better and stronger then days i do have scjool then gym. School just takes thr kife out of me god when i get a job it will be worse haha
Looking forward to you doing your bulgarian split squats. Having bad balance isn’t a reason to avoid them; it’s a reason to do them.
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I’m the opposite, training after a full day’s work I perform much better. My job is pretty physical so maybe it’s an 8 hour warm up! I tend to eat better and more structured on a work day. I just feel more primed and ready to go.
If I train on a weekend when I’ve had a good sleep and I’m well rested I find it hard to get going.
Keep plugging away and working hard.
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Thanks! I think its because im constantly absorbing information its mainly focus really. On a day off from school im not learning or using my brain much haha so i have utter focus in the gym
How’s it going man?
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Good wby
Squats+back
Smith front squat
80kg×8
×8
90kg×6
×6
Some weight plates were missing wtf!! So i couldnt do 100.
One arm db row
25kg
×10
27.5Kg ×10
×8
×5
Weighted pullups
4kg ×5
×5
10kg ×2
Bodyweight ×8
Prone incline dumbell curl 5×10 7kg
I likes this workout much more. Ithink doing fully body and say since shoulder pressing is last and my legs are fatigued a bit from squats it effects my performance and by the time i get to shoulder press im burnt out anyways so i decided to train 4 days a week and split things up .
Also i like training more i was kinda getting abit down and losing control a bit and getting slack with the gym and food because i wasnt going as much and i had a blank moment. I was meant to do full body three times a week but iv basically only been going twice and slacking. If i look through my log iv been slack asf
If i was to do weighted pullups 4 times a week, (every time im in the gym) would that be stupid. ? I love pullups i love how they feel on my back i camt describe it its like an orgasm except its a pullup. Would i not recover from them??
I am not sure about weighted as adding the external load, if constantly being pushed up, could lead to some recovery issues.
Speaking anecdotally, however, being a former, we did pull-ups, lots pf reps (bodyweight of course), nearly every day. I also have one of those doorway pullup bars at home and will constantly just bang out a set whenever I walk out of the office. I do think upping back frequency is awesome for back development, but like any other body part, you need to then regulate and control volume and intensity over the week.
The back is different in the sense in that it can definitely take and handle more of a beating in relation to other body parts.
The best answer, try it out and see how it works for you. Are you recovering well and seeing some development? Great keep at it! Is your back not recovering and it’s affecting your other lifts? Maybe it’s time to take your foot off the gas a little bit.
Just my .02.
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Thanks pitbull. I recover really fast generally and my back recovers the fastest out of all my body parts so il try it out and see
Guys sorry my punctuation and grammar is horrible and my sentence structure.english isnt my strong point althoigh i enjoy reading and spelling i suck at grammar.It probably is hard to understand so i will try my best to punctuate stuff etc.
I’m doing well
Someone stole half of our gym’s bands and one foam roll a couple weeks back
I don’t understand how someone can do that stuff, they are not only hurting the owner of the gym but also all of the customers who need those things. (For example, the stolen foam roll was the only one you can use to roll your lower back without feeling like something is going to break)
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Doing weighted pull ups maybe 3 times a week would be okay. As pitbull said, it would be dependent on your ability to balance out the weekly volume and intensity. Avoiding failure would be important. For accumulating volume on pull ups, it’s usually best to leave a couple of reps in the tank; only go to failure maybe once a week on the day before your longest period of rest (so Friday if you take the weekends off). I used to love weighted pull ups as well, and saw my best gains (got up to +90lbs when at a bodyweight of 170) when hitting it 2-3 times a week at the beginning of my workouts. I think 4 times might be pushing it a bit though, or at least it would limit how intense you could go each day since the volume would be so spread out. If you’re going to equate the feeling to an orgasm, properly programming it 4 day a week would be like edging.
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I cant remember where i read it but i read something where someone stole stuff from a gym and it was just small things then over time they had a home gym setup from it.
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No gym yesterday , unfortunately it cant stay hot forever even though i wish it did.
Anyways its getting colder and iv been just wearing shorts and a shirt when i should at least be wearing a jumper somedays. So got a cold
Il try doing a few warmup sets of bodyweight then one heavier set but maybe say 3 reps but not to failure and see how i go
Well that’s one way to save money I guess
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Go for it with the chins, use a wide variety of grips, rom, tempos, pauses, practise exploding up over the bar, archers and any other calisthenics moves. Get good at controlling your body like a gymnast.
Do them between sets, or when ever you feel like it, a good approach is not going to failure, if you can knock out 10 clean reps then jump up and do 5 when ever you feel like it. Between every set, every other set, between changing exercises, your choice. They will all add up without you being overly fatigued.
The more sub maximal sets you do the more you will learn to recruit the right muscles and just generally will be more comfortable.
I bloody love chins too, and take much inspiration from the upper body development of gymnasts.
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