I’m not understanding what you’re trying to say here. It sounds like you’re trying to say that if you do the rep slower it feels slower, which is kind of a no brainer.
If you’re genuinely concerned that strength out of the hole is an issue, I’ve used paused squats for my FSL work before with good effect. It’s worth bearing in mind I’ve never squatted 4 plates though so if anyone bigger and stronger comes along, listen to them.
What I’m saying is, for the other lifts I am pretty good at starting the rep explosively from a dead stop. With the squat, I can’t really go down slowly, and then explode out of the bottom with zero initial momentum.
The only way I can move fast is by letting myself bounce up a bit, but I am not sure whether that’s good for building strength. It sure helps to move the weight more explosively, but am I actually doing the work? If that helps, I’m pretty sure my sticking point is right at the beginning of the rep. Once I have to reverse the motion, I feel a very strong resistance, past which I start to feel stronger.
When I try to explode initially I push to contract my muscles as hard as possible but I don’t get the force output I want. It’s like I’m trying to fire as hard as I can but my body “lags” behind and takes a moment more to actually react. My teeth clench, I get very tight, but my legs don’t get me up quickly.
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Try a few weeks of pausing some or all of your FSL work at the bottom of the hole. Don’t time it or anything crazy, just enough so you’re sure it’s a dead stop. See if that helps.
Or ask some bigger, stronger guys in for advice. I’m pretty sure @Bulldog9899, @T3hPwnisher or @flipcollar have all stopped by to help you before.
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I thought the same way for a while on my squats too. I bounced out of the whole very well until I got to significantly heavier weights. It’s something that takes time to get good at with slow descents. Also second what @dagill2 said. Paused reps helped me tremendously with learning to accelerate out the hole on squats.
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Watch yourself, bud. You’re doing the overthinking again. If you thought Paul was blunt with you, post some of these thoughts in Jim’s forum and brace yourself for the storm. You’re progressing, hitting rep PRs, and getting stronger. Stay the course. Until you plateau on your lifts and things get stagnant, you don’t need to worry about altering your form. Except, as @T3hPwnisher said, with your OHP unrack, which I had to teach my wife as well since she, like you, spent the first 5 seconds of the rep in a weighted static hold that taxed her muscles and robbed her of a couple reps.
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If coming up and the reps are smooth and your not grinding your good
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Thank you all guys for the advice.
Just got through my first hard conditioning workout. I did a handful of hill sprints. I’m gassed but I am full aware that conditioning is something I need to be doing because, well mine sucks.
My plan is to do hill sprints on Sundays and weighted walks on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Also, this was my first control day. I discussed the idea with @danteism a while ago. Basically one day a week I’ll halve my carbs and keep protein and fat the same. This should work to keep my body from becoming insensitive to the calorie and carb surplus and allow me to eat slightly more on the other days (particularly my training days). I’m not terribly hungry because I’m probably still at around maintenance or at most slightly below.
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So my gut is once again kinda messed up. I started being gassy and shit at around midday, and I’d had only two meals:
Meal 1
3 eggs, 1 cup whites
40 g cheese or so
1 tortillas
60 g cream of cereals
Meal 2
Banana
PB&J sandwich
1 scoop whey
Since I am not keen on believing the cream of rice / cereals is what’s messing with me, and neither the banana, I am pretty much left undecided between whey and eggs. Since I have whey at other times of the day too, but I only have gut issues in the noon, I can probably try dropping the eggs at least for tomorrow and see if I feel a difference.
I’ll keep all the rest the same and just sub the eggs for something else. Here I’m open for suggestions. I’m just looking for something tasty similar in macros to my usual breakfast.
Purely out of taste, I’m thinking some quark with jam on top and since I have that opened pack of tortillas I’ll have one with something in it. Maybe ham and some cheese or eggs— oh, right, never mind. If anyone has better suggestions I’m open to try something new.
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Maybe some low fat cottage cheese. It’s a staple for me. Gut issues suck. Spicy foods get me, but then again my gut is over double the age of yours! 
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Yeah, actually I’ve always had gut issues in some way shape or form. I remember having such problems even back when I was in elementary school. My mother has always suffered from those too. She had times when those got so bad she had to get checked out because she was afraid of having some serious illness.
I used to just have a very irritable colon, but now I feel I can digest pretty much anything. There’s just something with morning time. But really, in the afternoon and evening, I can down everything I want and feel good. So there might be something with what I eat in the morning, since I’ve had egg based breakfasts for two years now.
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Do you drink often? I find morning guy health is amazingly better if I cut out alcohol all together @samul
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I never drink. Last time I had a glass of something was on new years eve lol I’m not really into alcohol
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Just hit the groceries. Decided I’m going to have something fun tomorrow.
Cream of oats
Cottage cheese with jam
1 tortillas with raw ham, cheese, and mushrooms
If eggs are the culprit, I should not have any issues with this.
Anyway, in a few hours I’ll have my press workout, and I’m finally in the 5/3/1 week. Super hyped for the session!
Whey gives a lot of people digestive issues…go have an extra steak instead.
How are both of these true?
They are. I never have troubles at any other time of the day than the morning. During the rest of the day, I can eat anything but I often have issues right after breakfast up to lunchtime.
Since I start having issues right after breakfast most of the times I do, I think what I have for breakfast might be the culprit. Namely, eggs. This is my reasoning.
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Eggs are a huge allergy for a lot of people. You may be on to something.
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How did you exclude the tortilla bread and whatever bread you use for your PB&J sandwich? Digestive/gut issues don’t always appear with that immediacy and if this is similar to how you normally eat you might be experiencing the aftermath of a dietary decision made yesterday
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I am excluding those because I have bread at other times during the day and this morning was the first time I’d had tortilla in a while, and I’ve had issues many times when I hadn’t eaten it (I don’t eat it often).
I don’t know, I usually start feeling bad right after breakfast to a couple of hours later. Trying to listen to my body, this totally feels as if the food entering my system triggers something.
Press
33.38 kg x 5
37.83 kg x 3
42.3 kg x 13
33.38 kg x 5 x 5 alternating with rear raises 5 x 15-20
Dips 14, 13, 10, 10, 9 alternating with
Pullups 11, 8, switch to underhand grip 8, 7, 5
Tremendous workout. I came in wanting to do 10 reps on my pr set but a minute before going for it I said “fuck it, let’s do 12.” There were two buddies watching me and after I got the 12th I told to myself, another one.
The FSL sets felt more difficult this time, and the rear delt raises in between got me a hell of a pump.
I’m improving my reps on the Dips and Pullups aren’t going bad either but they could be better.
Left the gym with an ungodly Pec and biceps pump
And now onto my post workout meal
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