Honestly I never know how to assess this. Some will say using a belt will make your core work harder, others the opposite. I had good core results when doing my olift program, and I wasbn’t using my belt often at all. But was it because I was not using a belt often, or because I was clean, snatching, squatting and deadlifting 4X a week and good morninging 3X a week loool?
Well I do it with a belt anyway. I think that actually doing core work either be hypertrophy (TTB, weighted crunches and sit-ups) and isometrics and anti-rotation stuff, and good bracing will be what will bring the core up.
Anyway, I don’t really have a plan right now. Rumors are abound about the gyms shutting down, so I don’t really see any benefit to having a plan. I’d just feel “robbed” if I arrive at “this is what I want to do” and then I can’t go do that. So, at the moment, I’m just taking it day by day. If I can go in and lift, great. If they shut down the gyms, well maybe that’ll my elbow the time it needs to recover (unfortunately this particular elbow ailment also affects handstands). Tendons are weird, been trying to study them a little and how they need to be rehabbed. What they respond to to grow, how collagen and vitamin C plays a part in that. Eccentric loading and overcoming isometrics actually appear to be viable rehabilitative tools.
Toes to bar, sorry, too many acronyms in the realm of sports aaaaaargh
I don’t know, but belt or no belt it’s my bracing that will fail first either way but on one I can use more weight ahahah
Indeed but this could be explained by many other things. Hard time for you mentally, injury, dieting, new program bla bla bla… It wasn’t the same exercises either. Then there’s just bad days. I benched 95 for 7 then 30 secs later 100 for 8 only ten days ago, this week I only managed a single at 115 ahah it happens!
Yeha exactly what happened to me and the Jacked 31 ahahah…
Same issue with my elbow. Haven’t done back or arms for 2 weeks, I’m letting it rest. Then I’m going to work it again with whatever don’t hurt…
Just comparing what the app is having me do to what I myself did. I’m not fretting over this, I was just curious to see whether the old stuff was actually higher volume than what I am doing now as with what I’m doing now you noted: volume. But no one, not even myself, had that idea with the previous stuff.
With tendonitis that appears viable. I seem to have fucked up that stage and ended up with tendonosis. Not loading it does not seem to be a current prescription for meaningful rehab. Great way to become weaker though apparently.
My approach will be slightly different from yours in that I really, honestly, don’t care about getting better at climbing. I just want to have fun there.
Normally I do yoga after a session, I didn’t today. And my hips are tightening up bad at the moment. I’m going to put a bench between my legs next session. That should the kgs.
Honestly it looks like it still had suite the volume but in a different way: more exercises oriented stuff, this time more muscle oriented stuff (or I’m mistaken?) Meaning assistance lifts that mimick/directly help the main lift
Ugh damn. I’d suggest taking it very seriously and if you need rest, please do. A good friend of mine didn’t rested enough and was still going back to work and now he’s in a medical layoff for 3 months and might suregery, in that case the doctor said he’ll have to wait 6 months before doing resistance training again! (wrist tendonosis)
Haha, talk about conflicting intel :s I don’t know, as of now it continues to get better so Occassionally life throws it a curveball causing a few steps of regression but most of the time I feel that I’m on a good trajectory.
Worst comes to worst I’ll take that rest and continue training my hands into diesel engines by hangboarding at home
Well if it continues to get better do so. Doctors don’t always know everything. They told me I shouldn’t squat below parallel, or heavy, I shouldn’t do olifting ever again. YEAH RIGHT
Just realised I haven’t had one of my scheduled deload weeks in quite some time. I wonder how long it’s been. Last “proof” I can find of doing for climbing is mid-September. Last lifting deload was end of September. Hm. I do however consider it almost a deload whenever I change up programs so >_< But yeah, might be time for a rest week from climbing.
Forgot to log this note yesterday. Good mornings, while an exercise I think I can derive benefit from, was harsh on the elbow and the program allows me to substitute RDLs there so I will do that.
Despite all the controversy surrounding the individual I think I made my best consistent progress while following Nutty’s “program” and it included a lot of lower back work. I might run that again in the future when I feel more healed.
Another thing that worked very well in the past, also something I might revisit, is I performed very well eating in accordance with the mountain dog diet. Despite it running very high in protein.
@j4gga2 you are a super-knowledgeable cat and well up-to-date on things. I’m finding mostly old writings. Is there a difference with the approach to rehabbing tendinosis vs tendonitis? My take-aways from reading up on stuff is that slow-eccentrics are bueno and isometric holds at a point where it hurts marginally are what you want to do. And that this is an approach suitable for not only tendon injuries but also muscle related injuries.
Programming prescriptions seem iffy. I’ve seen everything from daily eccentrics, and isometric holds every third day (L-protocol, hamstring tears) to some climbers doing eccentric only wrist curls 3x/day and isometric pull-up holds (all grip variations) at 90 deg and 120-140 degrees several times per day (climber’s elbow).
I’m longing for that day. I think that day might be the day when I go “Hey, not going to compete” and revamp my main lifts to trap-bar deads, SSB squats, and abandon flat bench and only do overhead stuff.
I don’t think many people were knocking nuttys program, especially for people like ourselves who have a habit of overthinking and overcomplicationg this stuff. Even if it were a bad program for the general population, what works for you, works for you. I’ve made some awesome progress on really, really dumb programming.
Yeah, exactly. I’m really trying to swallow that I need to pay more attention to what works for me rather than what I want to have work for me. Like with the protein intake.
In theory, I know there’s nothing about a high protein intake that is warranted and that carbs are good and make for decent fuel. But, still, I felt superfly when I followed that meal plan to a T. And eating that frequently isn’t ideal either from a scientific perspective and its a hassle and a half. But, the outcome was pretty neat.
the kgs.
Occassionally life throws it a curveball causing a few steps of regression but most of the time I feel that I’m on a good trajectory.