I agree with what you are saying but this guy said he is using 110lb every week and can’t complete 4x10. He is not going to be able to add sets or lesson rest times if he can’t even finish his 4x10. If he was to focus on strength for a while and use progressive overload he could easily be hitting much higher weight for sets of 10 within a couple months.
How can one not add a set?
Resuced rest time to progress? I thought increasing rest time is what us need to add weight. If i decrease rest time to only 1 minute i cant even lift what i lift now
Thank you but you didn’t read my programme i posted progress too.
If you read the entire programme, it has 5x5 alternated with 3x12 on bench
@T3hPwnisher is pointing out that there are many ways to progress.
If you do 5 x 5 @ 60kg with 3mins rest one week you could progress next week by doing:
- 5 x 5 @ 61kg with 3 mins rest
- 5 x 6 @ 60kg with 3 mins rest
- 6 x 5 @ 60kg with 3 mins rest
- 5 x 5 @ 60kg with 2.5 mins rest
All of these are progress in that you’ve done more work in the second week than the first.
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Hello guys, wasent able to log every 3 months, my city in north italy was the first to be hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
I have a home gym and thats a good thing because gyms are closed sins, but i had fever for 10 day (dont know if it was normal flu or coronavirus) and i had shoulder pain for another 15 days.
so i think in total i had 20 days without lifting, than started lifting again of course. This is the progress:
**the last pic is 08/04/2020
back:
muscle building must be the slowest biological incremental activity, it’s so slow it’s frustrating. I’m not ripped yet, far from it. Sometimes i look at those pictures and i see visible progress and i’m proud, when shouwer i can touch new muscles.
Sometimes i look at those pictures again and i question if there was really a progress…
Anyway, thank you very much guys, stay safe during the lockdown. only go out if you really need to and use gloves and mask
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some workout videos:
deadlift 6rep @270pounds
squat 5 reps @210pounds (libs? i dont know lol)
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You’re doing well man. You’re getting to the point where I would just worry about the process rather than the progress in your short-term thinking. This is something I still have to remind myself a couple decades in.
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This is gold right here.
You’re doing great man, good to hear you’re recovered and back at it.
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Good work!
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