You might be good man. I remember in a video about correcting your deadlift setup by Brian Alsruhe he had a tip that folks should record themselves pulling more than 1 rep, then look at the position they’re in for reps 2-whataver. That’s the position you want to start in most likely.
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I mean, if you want your legs to grow, it’s not necessarily the best method. I, personally, (and the reason I suggested it to J in the first place) just don’t need big legs for my job. I need leg strength and speed for maintaining base in a scuffle and chasing down bad guys, and I need size and power in my upper body for holding onto them. Bulky legs can actually be a hindrance.
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I about wore out the “like” button with all the stuff about throwing your back out sneezing.
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It seems to have disappeared as quickly as it arrived. It was in an unusual place and I’m not sure what muscle it was. It isn’t the erectors. It’s blow and to the inside of my right shoulder blade. Could be my mid trap, rhomboid, or some other layer.
As you can see, I made a decision.
Permission granted. In addition to that, who cares? I feel great now that I’ve stopped worrying about arbitrary gym rules and standards. I train for me and do what I like now and it’s going great. I’m not sure if you noticed, but my upper and lower body volume are not equal…or even close.
Thanks for that info. I’ll play with my start position and see how things feel. I’ve always been an advocate of starting with higher hips if that’s the first thing to move anyway. No sense in fighting your body.
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My gif game is weak. The tyke is supposed to be indicating complete agreement.
4.22.20 SGSS W9 D2 - Upper Body
PULL UPS
10, 10, 8+4+3
INCLINE
135 x 5 x 2
175 x 6 x 3 sets
DB MEADOWS ROW
100 x 6, 6, 10
DB OHP
62.5 x 6 x 3 sets
Much easier with DB Bench and I figured I could tolerate unevenly loaded DB. I just grabbed the DB off center to counter it.
SIDE LYING REAR DELT FLY
15 x 25
immediately into
SIDE LYING LAT RAISE
10 x 15 + 5 x 15
Ow.
Time: 34 minutes. There’s time to add a superset of chest and back if I feel the need. I could also do arms on this day instead of leg day. I put them there initially because I thought upper body day was going to take longer.
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It is probably a bit misleading in that your most recent posting had been all about the push on DLs, but now that you mention it…yeah. And to be clear, I am not talking about abandoning any of those things as such, more just the fruitless pursuit of getting big legs, calves, etc., because it isn’t going to happen, at least not without putting on far more weight than what would be good for me.
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Deadlift and power clean are my “strength” lifts. The first time I ran legit SGSS (actually followed the program to a T) I grew, but it was mostly in my legs. That’s neat and all, but it didn’t do anything for improving my beach muscles or creating that power look.
That’s why I’ve butchered it this time around. I’m trying to drive my deadlift back up while emphasizing my upper body. I used to put a lot of effort into legs and back. Everyone had trained chest, shoulders, and arms. That’s easy, right? I needed to do the hard stuff. Sadly, I’ve realized that I too want the beach muscles.
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Its 2020 now, you can be who you want to be. You shouldn’t feel ashamed. 
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I actually think this is how I basically operate anyway, sorta without thinking it through in those terms in a conscious way. Maybe I would be better of actually being more deliberate about it.
I still like the strength parts of the lower body stuff, but perhaps I can just admit that I can’t and won’t get big that way and stop feeling like I am doing something wrong or not working hard enough. I like the sound of that.
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It’s feels a lot better to think “That stuff is cool and all but I just don’t care enough to do what it takes.”
The other approach kind of has some self shaming involved. It’s not good and serves no purpose. And trust me, I spent a lot of time with that approach. I’ve just started to shake it in the past year or two.
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4.23.20
I suck. I had plenty of time to run or use the elliptical tonight and I just don’t want to do it. I’m drinking beer instead. I’ve eaten one meal today. I had a double shot of Fireball and I’m on my second beer and I’m already feeling it. Whatever.
I work my side job tomorrow morning and then it’ll be leg day in the afternoon. Why am I so drawn to lifting but not running even when I want to be athletic?
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I’ve often wondered the same thing. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that almost anyone can run, but not everyone can deadlift hundreds of pounds.
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Did these the other day (with a KB) and loved them! Back got super sore. Been awhile since I felt that. Thanks!
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Because running is difficult when you don’t know how. Same as lifting. I am not proficient at running, so it is harder.
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I’ve been having this idea of “athlete the lower and back, bodybuild the pecs/shoulders/tris” floating around in my head the past couple days.
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Because running sucks.
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Lifting weights is so much easier than running.
You walk around in the gym listening to music your heart rate is low and then you get under the bar lift it a couple of times, when you can’t you rack the bar, in a few seconds you breath is down and you can talk again. Unless it’s a hard set of DL or Squat then it takes a bit longer.
Running, if you’re not running 3 - 5 times a week as your main exercise, is mentally draining. You know you’ll suck for the first part and you want to stop running because it hurts but not much, you’re having a hard time breathing. You have to tell yourself from mile 0 keep on mate keep on and doing it all the way.
And you feel like you’ve accomplished nothing a few minutes after you stop running.
Maybe one can compare it to a 20 rep squat, that takes mental attitude too.
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I think this is right but only for when you are new to running. For me when I started I usually had a 5 min and 11 min wall, at around 5 mins I would be fked and have to push through, then it would ease and I think its not too bad, then at 11min in hits again but harder. Once i got through that it was never that bad.
When I was running frequently (40+ kilometers a week (25+ mile)), I still had these walls but they were significantly less and after 11 mins i could just keep going for 2-3 hours if time allowed.
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That was what I was trying to write when I wrote if it’s not your main exercise.
If you do it once a week on top of hard lower body work, it just plains sucks and will never really be a fluent run.
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