Low readiness today. Been crushed by an assignment this week: poor sleep stress and so on so not unexpected.
I think I did well though got in a productive sesh without going overboard with some pause deads up to 200kg. It’s not my best ever pause on calibrated plates (220kg x 2) but it’s heavier work than I’ve ever done before casual/routine like on pauses outside of pushing for PBs.
I’m working at a higher base capacity than ever before. Just needa stock to the plan and accumulate volume and gains will come
Do you distinctively notice that in your training?
There’s no joke intended this time, I generally want to know how you asses this.
I am so used to feeling like shit that I stopped paying attention to these details and wouldn’t even know what to look out for in myself.
Yeh for sure. Fatigue accumulates from various sources including training itself, daily activity, stressors physical or otherwise etc. At the same time ur body’s recovering, bringing down fatigue levels. This rate is variable also e.g. poor sleep = clearing fatigue slower.
So anyways there’s a level of fatigue always on u. This is inversely proportional to ur performance at any given time. High fatigue means you’ll lift relatively shit, technique will be sloppy and so on. Estimated 1RM on a given day is one indicator of this.
I’ll be assessing this on any given day when I go into the gym (the app is tracking also). If I know I can hit 220kg x 4 pause deads @ RPE 7 at my best and today 200kg x 4 is @ 7 then today isn’t the highest readiness. A set of 4 @ RPE 7 is about the same stimulus whether ur using 200kg or 220kg so I’ll go lighter get in the stimulus but not as much fatigue so overall I recover better
No telling how much of a difference it’ll make. Maybe not more than a 10% boost. Maybe more if also affecting ur sleep/diet and so on. When I had crippling depression was still within touching distance of my best. My worst sessions have been from over-reaching / over accumulating fatigue from training.
My guess is thst one is able to adjust to the circumstances he’s given if he wants it bad enough. I would expect my sessions to be more enjoyable but not necessarily that much stronger without the depression.
The hormon thing on the other hand, I’m curious about.
Felt a bit tired overall today but sometimes it’s hard to tell how a session will go before getting under the bar for the first set few warm ups so went in open minded/ nil expectations to take what’s there on squat.
Got in lotta work overall. Squats: sleeves, knee wraps and high bar beltless. Cheeky little PB on Beltless high bar at 140kg x 10 with plenty to build on. I think is the best set of 10 I’ve done on any squat variation including comp style.
It’s a lot pain but hopefully comes with gains. Have to bargain with myself like “ok Pig all u gotta do is 8 reps. One at time up and down.” When I get to 8 I’m like do a few more, one at a time.
