Exciting news.
Should be getting in a fancy power rack and attachments soon at my friends home gym I’m training out of right now.
Monolift attachment will take a great deal of practice to get used to but mostly I’ll just appreciate a bit of protection if I stumble during squats.
Noice
5% more gains with sexy equipment ez
It’s gorgeous, mate. That multi-grip bar up there has me in full boner mode.
I can do weighted pull ups without smashing the plates into the dip/chin station now. We are gonna put a DIY DL platform together too. Just the mats on concrete is sliding a bit
I’m pretty tired probably never been this busy my whole pig life thus far. Overall workload/volume has dropped for skipping gym days. Could be worse though because of the extra off time even if I’m feeling generally off the readiness to lift is there.
Meant to just be a PB double but had one more in the tank without overshooting so why not: PR triple back squat 190kg in sleeves and 180x4 in the lead up. PBs on high bar back off work too 150kg x 9 as I try to make up for missed volume this week.
Tough workout. Probably need to take better care out myself too sustain the gains
Everytime I think you’ve gone quiet and are resting to let me catch up, you sprint off again and smash it out. Nooiice
Don’t think I’m mentally capable of not pushing something. You aren’t doing too bad yourself for an old fart so I’ll need to keep the lead going.
Tren’s got your back!
Great work on PBs, neverending PB fest in here!
It’s nice to be able to be in PR range each time going in but it’s more a symptom of low overall workload than anything. Ideally I’d be training enough and hard enough that it’d be difficult to hit PRs every sesh. I think… maybe.
This log:
Ugh, I’m so tired!
No guys, seriously!
So busy, I probably can’t even GO to the gym, let alone do anything while I am there.
(attaches video of yet another disgusting PR set)
Anything is possible wen u believe. Ebook on sale, haff price.
Way of the pig.
I might not be a disciple of the Way, but I am a fan.
Meh ur not doing too bad with ur way. Ur a badass… for an old bloke. I’d hope to be as physically capable when I’m ur age (70ish give or take)
I have no idea what to do with any of those words, lol. Thanks maybe.
Hey man, you seem to have a pretty solid understanding of fatigue and readiness and choosing how much to do based on that vs following some planned progression on a paper.
What made this “click” for you? Did you read something good, see a solid video, or just kinda look at the graphs from the Sheiko app until you understood what was up?
If i had to bet, its the Sheiko gold. Everyday you log a session you have to track readiness levels by certain categories such as sleep, nutrition, stress, etc. etc. The app then plots readiness levels and programs weights based on your readiness. So it kinda goes hand in hand with how well you feel.
Chances are if you “feel” good and have been honestly tracking your readiness levels, the app should in theory know when to push you or when you can push yourself.
More a culmination of all me learnings and resources and training trial and error to really distill things down into principles that make sense to me that i can work with and apply to my training (just so happens they might resemble JTS’ principles of strength training but it’s more the words and definitions to make sense of things). Like specificity, overload, SRA, fatigue management, individual differences, variation and so on though the first 3/4 i mentioned are the important ones i think. These principles and their sub principles inform training and training/planning decisions. Knowing em is one thing but applying them is another because one can over or under apply them to the detriment of ur gains.
Training plans / templates are written to make these things happen but training isn’t that predictable in general and individuals respond differently at any given time in the training process so if you are after somthing closer to optimal probs to graduate to the next level.
Like @kckfl349 suggested the Sheiko gold app helps but isn’t the whole story. It gives me data and feedback to learn from and introduced me to a less structured approach to training where each each session is stimulating but there’s any number of ways to achieve that as long in order to put in work weekly/monthly/yearly and progressively overload that way.
The program that is generated by the app itself isn’t the big thing because i go off program often (literally 80-90% of the time) and often enough to a large degree. It’s the principles that the app allows me to apply and refine that has been the “click” i guess.
My training philosophy is better / more effective now. I could apply it a bit better ideally but I’m working on that e.g. probably be better off not pushing intensity as hard in general but i like the positive feedback that hitting rep PBs gives me even if i could get about the same training effect with 5-10kg less weight for less fatigue accumulated vs going bigger.
If there’s any aspect in particular u wanna discuss I’m keen because discussion helps me develop also. In general it’s all kinda one big group of concepts in my head that makes sense to me.
In Chris’s log you mentioned “staying in the pocket” or training not too easy but not too hard.
In my head I kinda picture it like two lines on a graph. The top line is the most you could possibly lift. Under that is a line representing what you lifted in your last workout. The space between the lines represents “the pocket.” Every workout where you lift more than last time, but less than the absolute limit is an awesome PR, showing you improvement and setting you up for better lifts in the future.
And hitting PRs is so good, that it’s worth going slow, just to hit more. Like it’s better to take small record, like +5 pounds, 3-4 times to “stay in the pocket” for weeks, vs taking a 20 pound PR and lifting your absolute limit the first time, and having to back down immediately after.
small PRs also dont overload your CNS. chipping away at the log so to speak over time takes less energy than hard swings at it
