I guess it’s common to train without shoes? I watched a @queen_cobra vid as she was the same as well as others I can’t recall
I can relate to this. SGSS basically has short and long workouts so I try to plan them according to my work days. If I miss a day then it puts me in a bind. I stress about it which is silly.
My solution is to just follow a set rotation. Push, pull, legs, repeat. But I won’t try that until I finish this round of SGSS and I have none 9 weeks left.
Another option for me is to go back to four days per week instead of six. The problem with that is meeting all my goals (better deadlift, bigger chest and shoulders). Hopefully I find something sustainable someday. One could say that I’m doing too much upper body work right now, but I wasn’t happy with how SGSS affected my upper body. It didn’t grow much so I have to try a different approach.
In regards to your problem with being tied to a strict list of exercises - I suggest having a main lift. Pick your priority and always hit that but mix up the other work on that day as needed. The changes could be for mental health or due to equipment availability and location.
Lastly, you can’t ride two horses with one ass. At some point you might have to suffer through fatigued climbing sessions or back off on the lifting.
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I only deadlift without shoes.
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I can relate. I’m uncomfortable “following” something, and not doing it to a tee, even when there is mitigating circumstances because I have a hard time silencing the voice at the back of my head which is insisting on that failing to adhere is a failure in and of itself regardless of the cause. I.e., that mental voice will hark about planning better etcetera. And, then, after a long enough time on a program I’m inevitably restless.
I think this, above, will be better. To myself I’ve commited to keeping the main lifts on rotation, and trying to opt for a greater frequency of practice. My deadlift seems to take care of itself, so I try to squat twice, and get a lot of pressing work in and not do that much vertical pulling.
And thus, with respect to,
I’m almost there. I try to keep the main lifts and the supplemental for a while, but the further down the exercise list one reads, the less “sticky” the exercises are. Especially machine work.
You know, it’s funny, weeks and months ago I had an easier time with having shit climbing sessions as a consequence of my lifting but then I started setting climbing PRs and now I want to continue beating them. But you are right. Really a poor constellation of hobbies, not only can one bring fatigue into the other but gaining weight is anathema to climbing performance. >_<’ I know which one I’d give up though if I had to.
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I deadlift and squat without shoes. I’ve done a whole session without shoes before when I forgot my trainers and didn’t want to train in my decent work shoes.
That looks delicious. But not for breakfast.
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I’m prone to have proper meals for breakfast. And breakfast-y type meals as my pre-workout meal. Or sometimes lunch. I’ll have a delicious bowl of freshly made oatmeal with fresh fruit, protein powder, and added cinnamon over the food available at restaurants near my working place any day.
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Sorry it took me a while to get back to you. Never really sat down these last few days to give it a proper read and undivided attention.
Now seeing that you bounce between program ideas, I still stand by my initial diagnosis that you overthink stuff 
. I have been there and find myself back there every now and then. My best advice is to pick a program that is either suited best for your goals or that interests you (fun and diversity can be a training goal as well for non competitors!) and then you stop thinking about it completely. You follow whatever program you picked no matter what (besides injury).
The program you posted here looks reasonable. I assume progression would be simply linear in this case?
Also Johnnie Candito (US powerlifter and youtuber) has some pretty cool free programs you can check out. His linear programs are simple, effective and available in different variations depending on your goal.
Lastly: Great work on the deadlift PR! Looked like there was more in the tank too.
This is very much a correct diagnosis.
I appreciate you giving me advice. At the moment though, I’d be surprised if gyms remain open for much longer and I’d just be crossed with being forced to stop something half-way. And so, this will serve for now.
There are programs that inspire me, but despite having two gym memberships neither is very compatible with either gym-layout. Built for Battle could work, but it wouldn’t ordinarily as it “demands” several barbells. Right now the gyms are very empty, so it wouldn’t be an issue, but under normal circumstances, it would not work unless I go back to scheduling my training at 5AM/6AM.
Third, since I have prescribed rehab exercises to do (landmine-press/slow push-ups) I’m happy to explicitly program that in right now to force myself to do it.
Double-progression primarily. With the smith incline I’ll progress by adding intensity techniques. This training is inspired by
and was something I was doing before. The exercises are a bit different, and I’m more lenient with the template than before, but I trust it’ll work nevertheless.
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Yeah nation wide close down here. Which luckily isn’t affecting my training but means I can’t work.
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A big shout-out to @Chris_Colucci for keeping the forums tidy by merging all the new threads created by people freaking out they cannot go to the gym because of COVID-19. Thanks for your work!
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Situations ripe for a respected author to write a “surviving Corona” training plan.
Not sure they’d be respected afterwards.
Business as usual. No biggie. Weird there haven’t been any threads for “New Recipes for Spam and Ramen”.
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Why so? A sensible bodyweight and basics training plan doesn’t feel like an unreasonable thing to publish, absent of any money changing hands.
Indeed, I didn’t interpret your original postulation as a freebie scenario
Trying to use it to boost profile or otherwise gain would definitely be tacky, agreed.
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If anyone needs to talk to a “stranger” during these tough times to rant, get memes, share big/small frustrations/fears/good things etcetera. email is in my bio. Also welcome here if you want more of a public discourse.
Going to bed now. Much love to you.
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My mummy told me not to talk to strangers
Seems like three were created but they’re all paid
Oh btw. regarding the log’s name change: Those are some big numbers to rep!!
Any time frame? You will probably have to gain a decent amount of bodyweight to do those.