I feel like I need to get the work in since I structure my training week around my work week. This was my main concern with going to a six day split. I didn’t even make it through one week before missing a day.
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Same page, man. It’s tough to make the days match real life. I tend to do 5-day splits, and it’s still a bit of a juggle trying to do all the days.
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3.6.20 SGSS W2 D3 PULL
2 LAP DYNAMIC WARM UP
CABLE ROW
160 x 10 x 3 sets
DB MEADOWS ROW
65 x 10 x 3 sets
DB PULLOVER
65 x 10 x 3 sets
HS PULL DOWN
180 x 10 x 3 sets
This is a lot manageable when it’s not a superset.
HS PREACHER CURL
45 x 15, 13, 12
AM workout finished. The lifting only took about 33 minutes. I’m headed to my tax appointment and then to see that truck. I’m probably in for a long day.
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How did you go with the truck!
I bought it. I’ll upload a picture later. I’m worn out from running around all day.
It’s a 2006 Ford F150 crew cab. It has very few dings and scratches and is in great condition for its age. It also only has 109,000 miles. Oh, yeah. It’s red and my red Punisher skull license plate matches perfectly!
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I am very pleased for you. Also somewhat jealous
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Me too
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Nice wheels J, I bought a new car back in december… I say new it’s a 1999 WV Lupo, that is banged up, but it drives and gets me to work dry, here in rainy Denmark. And it was almost free about 700 dollars.
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3.7.20 SGSS W2 D4 LEGS
My training log: it’s leg day.
My brain: I’d rather not.
My body: I’m with that guy. That sounds terrible. We’ve sat in a car for the past 2.5 days.
My deadlift goal: You’ll never reach me if you don’t.
My brain: Dang It, he’s right.
My body: Mutiny!
And the winner is… no one. We all lost.
WARM UP
7.5 min elliptical
RFESS
BW x 10 ea x 2
SQUAT
215 x 8 x 3
DEADLIFT
295 x 8 x 5 sets
CLEAN PULL
nope
I don’t really know what the point of this was. Squats continue to trigger that “Why the hell am I doing this?” conversation. I did the deads. Hopefully that’s enough. Took me 32 minutes to battle through this.
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You know, I read a thread about doing P/P/L in Paul Carter’s thread. Someone asked him if it was meant to be done six days a week (referencing an older article). Paul said training six days a week wasn’t sustainable. I read this right as I decided to try SGSS as a P/P/L and I decided that Paul was wrong about that.
Well, today I’m thinking he was right. I’ll keep trying, but I’m definitely feeling beat today. On the other hand, I’ve felt good during my push and pull sessions. Perhaps this is just my contempt for squats (and my poor strength) reaching out and trying to steer me towards “easier” things - like leg press.
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I’d be inclined to agree. Getting to the gym for even 30 to 45 minutes six days a week seems like it could be tough to maintain when you have other commitments. I mean, you could do it but it would add stress. If I was going to do it I would use machines almost exclusively too, just to take out the loading/unloading time.
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As someone who suddenly hates leg training, I find non-squatting movements more appealing. I can train legs without draining my entire system. But that’s the easy way out. I fear that what I hate and need are one and the same right now.
Punisher 2.0!
I bought the license plate for my first red truck (the Colorado) and it’s been waiting in the garage for this moment since 2015. If the plate is on the vehicle then my wife begrudgingly calls it The Punisher, hence the title.
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Dayum…
This is America, bud. Every trophy wife and soccer mom drives a big truck nowadays. Finding one isn’t tough, but it was tricky to find a 2WD. 4WD is unnecessary and increases repair costs. I’ll keep this til it dies. It’s beautiful!
I think I got a pretty good deal on this. I paid $7366 + tax which made it $8000 on the dot. They were asking $8295 and I told them I could only do $8k with tax.
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I’m still really unsure how good squats are to develop leg size. I mean, they will do something, especially if you pick a stance and bar position that stresses whatever bit of your legs that you want to develop.
Except, I feel my quads more with lunges, goblet squats, belt squats and air squats, and hack squats are just about the hardest leg exercise I know of; my hamstrings feel it more with back raises and hamstring curls. My legs have grown more when I do those as well as squats.
The biggest leg pumps I get are when I do lighter, higher rep squats for two to four sets and THEN do the other stuff. It sounds iffy when I say it, but my head is telling me just to grow legs maybe using squats as a pre-exhaust may be a good approach.
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I think there are two reasons I’m doing squats.
- I suck at them (also the reason I want to quit)
- I think the loading will transfer to deads.
My back failed me on my 500 attempt. I’ve never felt that before. I also notice that my lower back is getting destroyed by these 8 rep sets of deads and that tells me it’s weak. I’ve been slacking off in the spinal loading category.
I’ll keep trying, but the weaker side of me wants to do leg press or something else instead of squats. I have two more workouts of 8 reps so I’ll suck it up for now. I have no leg specific goals. I just want to deadlift 500 lbs…and then 600.
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See, if I was in your position I would probably ditch squats and focus on my lower back and abs. For one, that’s what appears to be the weak link; and second, directly training my low back and abs will habe a lower recovery cost which will help training deadlifts.
Sorry, I’m playing devil’s advocate.
Just as an example, if I thought my lower back was the problem I’d be more inclined to do rack pulls from mid shin instead of squats. Then after rack pulls I would do a standard leg day.
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@MarkKO can probably correct my line of thinking here, but I would also argue that front squats could be beneficial as well. They’ll heavily strengthen your back and abs.
You probably missed my front squat experience, but they’re banned from my training. It’s a long and painful story. It started with wanting to improve my power clean, climaxed with hip surgery in Dec 2017, and finished with additional pain and dysfunction in 2018 (I did front squats once and spent the next 10 months getting my hip right).
I’m not going back there. I actually have no reason to squat other than arbitrary gym stubbornness. Just look at the T-Nation post:
