I got some Elitefts normal wraps (markko and flipcollar recommended them) to help with my wrists while pressing and they are worth it, imo. Not sure exactly what your problem is related to but it might be worth looking into if you aren’t already using something similar.
How’s school going?
I should probably look into it medically. It hurts pretty bad whenever I supinate it. If it’s supinated and I have a weight pushing on the low part of the hand, it’s unbearable.
I can’t do any supinated exercise, and even with other exercises sometimes I feel pain irradiation over my whole hand and forearm.
It’s been like this for a couple of months. I have even tried applying an anti-inflammatory pomade daily, but it didn’t get any better.
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I have my calculus exam on Tuesday and programming on Wednesday.
I’ve been studying hours on end daily, and I just got my algebra book from Amazon. Algebra will be one of the courses for the next semester, so I want to get a head start and by the time classes begin, on February 17th, I want to have gotten familiar with the subject already.
Also, I couldn’t find an Italian version of the recommended book, so I bought it in English. This’ll be the first time I study a subject, from scratch, in another language. Shouldn’t be too much of an added challenge, but I will have to study a lot. I’m super excited to learn new stuff. I didn’t study much when I was in high school, but recently I started absolutely LOVING it.
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Glad to see you’re doing so well!
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Db ohp 24 kg x 11, 9, 8
Lateral raise 8 kg x 20, 20, 6 kg x 20
Plate front raise superset with Incline lateral raise 2 rounds
Db curl (14,12,10 kg) superset with Rope pushdown (35,30,30 kg) 3 rounds
Incline curl superset with db skullcrusher 2 rounds @ 8 kg
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Squat 114.5,124.5,132 kg x 5
Deadlift 142,152,167 kg x 5
Doing only low rep squats and Deadlift on my lower body day makes training legs, which I normally hate doing, bearable. I like to throw around something that’s even remotely heavy. A couple of years back I remember I rarely ventured over 100 kg on the squats for my working sets, whereas now I’m consistently using from 120 kg above. Same for my Deadlift. I basically warm up with three plates now, whereas doing 110 kg used to require an effort.
I’m wondering whether training this way will be effective though. My squat and Deadlift aren’t my priority number one, but maybe only doing this as my leg work isn’t enough? I’m basically only doing 6 total sets here, although they are hard.
It’s a different feeling when I leave the gym after this kind of session. I feel like my hips, back, and legs are tired or “exerted,” but I don’t have the insane leg pimp I get from high rep work.
Hopefully it’s not necessary for growing.
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Did you ever run deep water or for how long did you run pwns ultimate hypertrophy block?
I’m not sure this even equates to six work sets. Maybe if it was like 10/8/6 reps it would but.
Anyway, what I think doesn’t matter and you can answer this in two-three weeks,
Get a tape measure out. Measure your legs. Do it again every week. Is the circumference increasing? Then yes, it’s adequate.
Haven’t done either.
Am I confusing you with someone else or were you meaning to do so?
I had initially planned to do so at the end of last summer, but after some months of BBB I decided to move onto a different approach because I was literally hating training and thought I could still achieve my goal with another approach.
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Cool
Mind you, I wanted to add, that what I’m doing is not as much of a safe bet as doing what I was doing before (as that had already been proven to work).
I’m hoping that, as long as I adhere to the principle of progressive overload, and push myself in the gym, trying to do better each week, I’ll grow. Hopefully I can make my own plan work.
I get that. I’m in the same boat, at the moment, somewhat.
I truly hope we both get to our goals!
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You keep mentioning pwns hypertrophy block. Going to have to Google it, can’t remember that one.
BBB Beefcake, two cycles, deload
BtM, deload
Deep Water beginner, deload?
Deep Water intermediate
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@T3hPwnisher since you’re being mentioned, maybe you can chime in on the concern I was expressing in my post above?
I’ve seen that layout before, yes.
It appeals to me, however it doesn’t fit with my schedule unfortunately.
I’m truly starting to wonder whether I’m training too easy right now.
I don’t feel as much of a sense of fear when getting to the gym as I was when doing 5/3/1 BBB or similar.