Training too easy for what? You can keep training this way, but don’t expect the same results as a program you fear. I think you’ll still progress, but if you have some concrete goal in mind, then you may have to make some changes.
Same. Or at least, that had been the case. My schedule might be changing.
Then, the only drawback that remains is following a program with a diet that eschews an entire macronutrient. I’m trying to work on eating more carbs, not avoid them. I can of course just do the training bit and eat big, but there’s appeal to doing things as prescribed. No caveats. No modifications.
Been thinking about doing BBB Beefcake and BtM and crossing the Deep Water bridge when I get there. But first, gotta get some clarity with regards to my schedule.
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My number one goal is to grow, especially in my upper body as my legs aren’t my first concern (I think they are pretty good when considering proportions).
I am actually pushing my upper body workouts hard. I’m just not doing a program that’s as hard on squats and deadlifts. What kind of changes do you feel I should make given this?
I wonder if I have an intensity issue. Both you and pwn have written this word. Fear. When I compute my TM, and then the FSL weights for my 5x10 sets my reaction is “well, that just doesn’t seem enough”. It seems boring, not in the lacking variety sense, but not being challenging enough sense.
Fear isn’t there.
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I think you should try and go heavier then. Try that to see if fear still isn’t there.
Well, when I go heavier then I’m basing my TM off of grimy reps. Not good strong ones. Injury causing ones. Or, reps that are many breaths apart. To the tune of being a sequence of singles.
It’s been a while since I read Wendler but if I’m not flat-out wrong these aren’t the kinds of reps you want to base your TM on.
If I wanted to do a limited sets workout like that, I would finish the final set with some sort of crazy stupid droplet to make it worthwhile. Always seemed to work for me.
@Voxel you don’t have to actually eliminate carbs on Deep Water: just eat them around training.
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I feel like I missed this when reading deep water
If you want gains, you have to get uncomfortable. Don’t be a pussy. The carbs will always call your name.
But that is feasible for me. I doubt I’ll have discontinued this behaviour of timing my carbs near my workout by the time I’d start deep water anyway.
It’s not in the book: it’s something Jon has said a few times on his youtube channel. Ideally, one goes without carbs, but if one is a “carb user”, as Jon puts it, then carbs should only be consumed around training.
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Excellent. I’m just at the tail end of recovering from an injury so this week my RMs will presumably be lower than what they are next week but very soon I’ll have numbers that will be appropriate to start running BBB Beefcake.
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90-120s rest between the 5x10 sets?
Jim has recommended setting a 20 minute timer and getting all the supplemental and assistance work accomplished during that time, but that was for more traditional BBB. It may be a tall order for Beefcake.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It’s actually in the Beefcake article
Note: All supplemental work is done with FSL weights: we generally recommend all 50 reps of supplemental work is finished in 20 minutes. This includes the rows on press/bench press day. We do NOT program rows - just row something and get on with your life.
But good, that leaves me with a competitive element.
You guys are making me want to come back to BBB. Maybe with the right TM, properly done this time (not implying that I didn’t do it right the first time, but I did make some mistakes) with an acclimation cycle… Doing things properly… But I’m gonna stick to my plan till summer. I said I would.
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Bench 77 kg x 10, 8, 72 kg x 8
Incline db press 26 kg x 10, 9, 7
Dips x 11, 8, 10
Rope pushdown 35 kg x 15, 30 kg x 15, 12
Db skullcrusher 10 kg x 11, 8, 8 kg x 12
Bb row 72 kg x 13, 11, 10
Neutral-Grip pulldown 70 kg x 12, 10, 65 kg x 9
Cable lat row 40 kg x 10, 10
Face pull superset with inverted row 2 rounds
Cross body Hammer curl 14 kg x 12 kg x 10, 8 kg x 11
Spider curl 3 sets @ 6 kg
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Db ohp 24 kg x 12, 9, 9
Db lateral raises 8 kg x 25, 20, 6 kg x 20
Rope front raise superset with Incline lateral raise 2 rounds
Db curls superset with Rope pushdown 3 rounds
Incline curl superset with db skullcrusher 2 rounds
Squat 114.5,124.5,132 kg x 6,5,4 then dropset to 105 kg x 6 on the last set
Deadlift 152,162,172 kg x 5
Bench 77 kg x 10, 9, 72 kg x 9
Incline db press 26 kg x 11, 9, 7
Dips x 12, 10, 8
Rope pushdown 40 kg x 12, 35 kg x 13, 30 kg x 13
Db skullcrusher 10 kg x 10, 9, 8 kg x 12
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Bb row 72 kg x 13, 12, 12
Neutral-Grip lat pulldown 70 kg x 11, 12, 65 kg x 12
Cable lat row superset with face pull 2 sets
Hammer curl 14 kg x 10, 12 kg x 10, 10 kg x 12
Concentration curl 3 sets