What can you do an actual lying dumbbell fly single rep? That junk you did would be gracious to call a “slight fly.” We laughed at people doing dumbbell flies like that. And yes… I am laughing.
That junk 1-rep made my pecs very sore today. I must be doing it all wrong.
You are still as weak as water
Well, we are all weak really. I’m stronger than yesterday. One day I won’t be weak and you’ll see.
Enjoy the show, I will enjoy showing you!
Just know that all “programs” will reach a plateau.
Proceed…
That’s why I don’t do ANY programs.
I’d say around 75 percent of my training is unplanned. I may think I’m going to do this or that and end up doing something completely different.
There are times I’ll do an exercise and if it’s not going as expected, I’ll do it again within 48 hours (or 24 hours later) and do much better.
Are you aware of this discovery? See there seems to be a memory thing going on in the body and you can tap into it with the right time frame.
I lifted for two decades when I customized all my programs. All there were in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s were magazine articles with examples of general programs and body part specialization programs. We just picked and chose what we thought might yield the best results.
The only thing you are doing new is your experimentation with max singles. My finding was that max singles were more of a hindrance to progress than a help. I quit doing them during my period of competitive powerlifting, which I credit for building a solid foundation for building a good physique.
IMO, the end of your experiment will leave you disappointed. But it is YOUR experiment. Proceed…
No, you don’t.
Goggins does shit like endless pullups and endless marathon runs and I think he’s been in combat. You’re just learning your way around weights, which is a great thing to be doing in general, but don’t kid yourself.
I’ll read along when I’m up past my bedtime so please continue to document your methods.
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I’m not only doing max singles.
There was a time I only did them and that was a mistake as I was not doing anything else with light weights. That was a disappointment, but it shouldn’t of been really, its obvious especially being around age 40, you need light days, plenty of them. I don’t look back and feel bad, I can only take it as a learning curve.
So, yes I failed once on the 1-rep max experiment, but because I fail, does not mean I quit. I look at failure as success, as long as I learn from it.
How do you know what I’m doing, Hunter S.?
@RT_Nomad another mistake I made in the past was that I was doing 1-rep on the conventional dead lift and doing heavy squats.
Those two powerlifting movements are probably the dumbest lifts as far as recovery anyone can do. They put your body in such an unnatural position.
As you see, I’ve yet to post any max conventional dead lift or squat. I really don’t plan on it either, so many other lifts that stimulate the same muscles and not stress the disks.
Exactly.
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Agreed… bending down to pick something up and squatting down are by far the most unnatural positions.
You have to confuse the muscles!
That seems to be a snark remark, if so what you missed there is the way the weights are lifted.
Standing in front of a barbell and lifting it is not a natural lifting mechanism, the weight is also distributed away at the sides. The squat is just as bad.
Now look at my Jefferson Lift. Have you ever in your 50years of lifting tested yourself on them?
The leverages are far better and guess what, you are still bending down and lifting a weight but you are doing it more efficiently, you are utilizing the legs better.
My guess is that OP just has very poor squatting form. I hated squats until I learned my most efficient movement.
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I followed Olympic style squats for many many years, I used to emulate Ivan Chearev No,No,No squats but with only half the weight he used.
I was also doing low bar bottoms up squats which those were pretty cool, but they don’t really get you jacked and stacked muscle man look. I did both styles in my strongman competition days.
Then I was addicted to the 20rep squat, high bar because that’s how you get a huge rib cage, but everytime I did them on the last 5+ reps my back would round and then I’d be so sore in the low back and hips for over a week.
I believe I was not eating enough. At the time I was in my 30s, broke, switching jobs and struggling very badly.
I decided light super high reps squats, I got nothing to loose that’s were the Googlins approach came in, I started working on 100reps with the empty bar and started working up, guess what, my rib cage grew!
How is a Jefferson deadlift a “more natural” position?
If anything a conventional deadlift is more natural because you can walk with it. Picking up something between your legs and holding it has limited functionality. You still round to get to the bar and get into a position that’ll probably make you have weird posture and muscle imbalances long term.
Time to return to natural stone lifting and hunting animals for food because hey that’s “more natural” than a barbell and a grocery store
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That’s the other movie reference for Mongo!
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That 419 I did in the video, that had zero impact on my disk health.
Had I done that with conventional I’d have to recover at least 10days.
I’m confident I could do those Jeffersons again today with more weight.
There was a time I could do deficit dead’s off a 5” block with 405 two days a week, at a BW of 180 and didn’t even look like I lifted. I was just under age 30 and invincible. I didn’t do any arm work or any rowing back then. Nothing related to muscle building, just strength training.