I honestly don’t know. One training session does not set a precedent. I’d say I’m exploring volume over intensity.
My rationale for not having followed other ready-made programs is because I’m interested in programming but I’m also hurt a lot. Now, that may be genetic. My uncle has some arthritis. My siblings have joints that go pop as easy as a Pringles can. My niece has way too many joint issues as a teen.
Also I tend to end up overanalyzing. How many stimulating reps, how many work sets/wk,…
Just resigning to not being a special snowflake and picking something cookie-cutter. I know Friday will be a weird workout (joining a friend at his home gym) but otherwise yeah I might spend a while in this higher rep range.
Got word my gym is getting both a trap-bar and a safety squat bar. My elbow is very thankful for the latter. Back squats hurt it today. No ETA though.
A - I’m not very good at it (which I’ve made my peace with)
B - I get distracted too quickly and my own programs morph into something else before I figure out if they work.
I’m looking to fix both of these with a year of 531.
Nothing wrong about cookie plans. Sometimes it forces you to do stuff you wouldn’t do by yourself, and you can learn and grow that way. Plus, especially in a stressful time, you don’t start analyzing everything, doubting the plan and yourself etc… Just STFU and the program
I appreciate you weighing in. I’ve been asking around, and it appears as if dry-needling might be better.
Precisely. The app needs a few enhancements though, it assumes you’ll do all workouts in sequence. Hell, I started mid-training week. I’ve sent an email with feature requests and figured out how to coax out what I need from it for now by essentially fooling the app. That’s why my workout was labelled as week 0 X)
Confession: really liking TJ Kuster and Gareth Sapstead articles recently. I mean, first this is a cool thing to do as a warm-up
Last two sets were AMRAPS but their text export of that was not more legible than just leaving it out. My impression is that the app tailors towards exposing a written record of what was done and not something from which one can infer the program in reverse.
Forgot to add to yesterday’s log but I tried out the new ROMWOD app for Android (previously iOS or Web only). For people that want to do some mobility work after but have an aversion to yoga they might like it a lot more.
I got some dry-needling done yesterday. Elbow feels better. The person that did it was a naprapath, and he looked quite extensively at my shoulder. Allegedly my top right rib was elevated/rotated (don’t remember) making the space between my clavicle and that rib a bit cramped and it was rotating my shoulder forward which had implications for my radius bone in the forearm.
Do you mean how my friend’s deadlift look? Or are you wondering if that’s sexi climbing?
If 1: We made it better, but I’d prefer it if he had either a trap-bar or started lifting from blocks. He cannot maintain a neutral curve in his lumbar spine and I’m not really read up on such issues. My knowledge is very driven by my own needs alone so.
I hypothesise from his lifestyle his hip flexors are too tight, so his hamstrings feel tight and I know he’s been stretching his posterior like crazy at times. I’d like to see him strengthen his rear to balance out his hip flexors and see what that does. Might be wrong though.
If 2: Should go faster. @dagill2 or @tails1 might have opinions.
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