I was excited about my squats yesterday, then realized I was a week behind and was supposed to go heavier than I did. Oh well - they were much better reps than the same weight the week before at least.
DE Upper
WU Circuit
DE Bench
45/8
135/6
185/4
215/5 x 6
These moved great!
DB Bench
90/8
90/8 + 70/8
Also went well
Smith Shoulder
45/8
135/5
185/8
205/5
My shoulder is getting uncomfortable on these, so I’ll swap for the hammer strength one.
I ran out of time here (can’t believe work expects me to work); I’ll do a bunch of close-grip push-ups tonight to make up some of the missed volume.
I had trouble hitting any of my progressions last week, and really think it started after vacation. I’m enjoying this program, anyway, so I just reset it and started over to build back from there. I had done all the weeks except the last peak and testing kind of stuff, so it didn’t seem like it made sense to grind through that and then start over. It’s my party, yo.
I think for this iteration, I’ll write down work sets only. I’m going to actually pay attention to John’s recommended RPE this time around too.
Hey @simo74@ChongLordUno@ChickenLittle I am all good! I really appreciate the rescue flares, so to speak!
Things just got a little busier than usual and I haven’t felt like logging. I’m still doing the work, just not writing it down.
Hope everyone is good!
Serious question - does anyone get any value out of me logging my workouts? Because I’m happy to do it if it’s beneficial for anyone; otherwise I tend to sporadically forget
I often wonder this too. For me I log mostly because it is somewhere to mentally unload the session and reflect. Its also nice to be able to look back and see what I was doing in the past.
I like reading other peoples training logs. Its the part of the forum I spend most of my time in. Just seeing what other people are doing, gives me ideas , gives me little goals to strive for, makes me question my approach and think about what works. So for me I would say keep logging but at the end of the day it is your log and you do you mate.
Looking at this session there is lots of horizontal pressing but none overhead. Do you leave it out because the shoulders are already half cooked from the benching or do you alternate it in, on other weeks?
I just copy what John writes down, without thought. He typically focuses much more on incline angles than flat, so this session was a bit more an anomaly with the flat pressing I think. That said, he does almost no overhead work. As you noticed, it’s a chest focus and then some dumbbell work to just finish off the shoulders 9 times out of 10. His main focus seems to be rear delts.
I think it’s good for aesthetics, but I am not a strong presser at all. His power building program I just did definitely had a little more overhead work in it, although still not much, and I think it was definitely useful when the flat bench reps were lower.
Makes some sense, shoulders get a lot of work from the bench, especially incline. Adding more pressing isn’t really necessary. Back when I thought I was a bodybuilder I always did shoulders with hamstrings and calves so I had to press OH. Lol
