Anybody have any thoughts/suggestions/experience with this? I’ve done 2 weeks of the original layers setup using 2 SGHP days , 2 pressing days, and 1 TBDL day. After my press days I feel incredibly charged so good I could “eat snails.” The dead lift day is draining but still leaves me feeling good. …

[quote]mstorm wrote: Anybody have any thoughts/suggestions/experience with this? I’ve done 2 weeks of the original layers setup using 2 SGHP days , 2 pressing days, and 1 TBDL day. After my press days I feel incredibly charged so good I could “eat snails.” The dead lift day is draining but still le…

Makes sense, thanks for the feedback. I just didn’t realize the effect it would have. How would you suggest structuring the split to focus on practicing technique while still getting upper back volume without applying layers to the SGHP? I’d been doing press incline tilt/SGHP/press decline tilt/TBDL…

[quote]mstorm wrote: Makes sense, thanks for the feedback. I just didn’t realize the effect it would have. How would you suggest structuring the split to focus on practicing technique while still getting upper back volume without applying layers to the SGHP? I’d been doing press incline tilt/SGHP/p…

Ok thanks I’ll give that a shot for a while until the technique is second nature.

I think I am going to get away from the split originally mentioned and drop the layers while working on SGHP technique since for me the attraction of that split was mass gains in the upper back. I would rather return to it after I can use the split as intended. I’m prob going to simplify and use a …

[quote]mstorm wrote: Anybody have any thoughts/suggestions/experience with this? I’ve done 2 weeks of the original layers setup using 2 SGHP days , 2 pressing days, and 1 TBDL day. After my press days I feel incredibly charged so good I could “eat snails.” The dead lift day is draining but still le…

[quote]jbpick86 wrote: Do you have an very many large knots in your traps. Didn’t experience this after learning high pulls but I did get the effect of what you are mentioning after heavy shrugs a while back. Every time I would shrug I would get a varying duration headache that would live me irri…

[quote]mstorm wrote: [quote]jbpick86 wrote: Do you have an very many large knots in your traps. Didn’t experience this after learning high pulls but I did get the effect of what you are mentioning after heavy shrugs a while back. Every time I would shrug I would get a varying duration headache t…

I’m glad you posted this. I am running into the same issue with the SGHP & Snatch. Hell I was trying to learn the Snatch and the SGHP at the same time…No wonder I’m such a pleasant person :slight_smile:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote: I’m glad you posted this. I am running into the same issue with the SGHP & Snatch. Hell I was trying to learn the Snatch and the SGHP at the same time…No wonder I’m such a pleasant person :)[/quote] Glad it wasn’t just me who made the same mistake! Even after just one 10-m…

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