Should i lower the weight or no?
It is your choice. I would, but not by much. Maybe down to 80 % of your 1rm. Otherwise you are just going to get crushed in later weeks. But I would say you really need to be honest with yourself before you decide to do that. Are you really giving it your all? If so drop weight, if not dig deeper and keep going.
Honestly I didnât feel like I gave it my all. I just didnât eat lunch lol. Screw it. Might as well try 130 next week itâs the last week of the cycle anyway. I can just adjust for the next cycle judging by how 130 feels.
Nvm iâll lower it. Cause even if I do fail. 130 will be the 75% in the next cycle regardless if I increase it or not. I just want to get the reps in.
I forget, how did you come up with your TMâs for this cycle?
If you really are on the second week of the first cycle, you calculated your weights wrong I think. They shouldnât be the same as the first week. There are plenty of spreadsheets online you can use to make sure you get them right.
I didnât. My team used to be 180. I lowered it to 170 for the second week so I was basically repeating what I didnât get the first week.
I see. Wow. That pretty much puts you at a 80 % tm already.
Bench-190x3-180
Squat-235x1-200
Deadlift-295x1-250
Ohp:95x5-95
First week of training I didnât eat right and was sick and had vertigo/dizziness symptoms and wasnât exactly eating right. I ended up not changing the squat tm at all even though i failed first week. I got the sets this week though with heavier weight. Bench probably same deal?
Where did you get the 180TM from?
If he did 190x3x.0333+190 for the max calculator then heâd get 208, which would give him 185ish at 90% and 175 at 85%. The question is, what that 190x3 looks like. If weâre talking all time PR on the best day with grindy reps wiggling under the bar, itâs not a good basis to calculate max off of. @tlgains I think your instinct to drop your TM is smart and shows you can be patient about this, you just want to make sure youâre lifting hard and with intensity, otherwise when stuff inevitably gets heavier youâll run into this again.
190x3x0.0333 + 190= 208.9
.85x208.9=177.5
That gets rounded to 178
Itâs close to 180
Not gonna lie I kinda want to keep bench tm at 180. I really want to bench 135 5x10.
I really should be able to do it.
That was pretty much what I was asking, to be honest. What sets he was basing his TMâs off and what conditions he set them under.
@tlgains, the maths wasnât confusing me, i was just unclear what sets you were basing the numbers off. I didnât see the 190 x 3 mentioned above.
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Donât think about it that way. You will get there eventually if you are patient. Lower your tm.
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You didnât get 2 consecutive sets of 120x10 man, so you shouldnât be able to get 135 for 5x10,
My 2c is to just retest to find an approximate 5RM and go from there.
Pick a day where youâre performing ânormallyâ, ie. Youâve eaten, and work up to a technically solid 5RM. Job done, no more worrying about âwhat I should be able to getâ
This is ego talking. Ego goes with 5/3/1 like ketchup goes with pasta. Incompatible, and youâre fooling yourself if you think otherwise.
Thatâs just from the last two weeks. I suggest eating three meals a day seven days a week before making any changes to the workouts.
Youâve been consistently eating poorly. The training program would work fine if you actually fueled performance and recovery instead of sabotaging yourself.
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Well that mean I would have to be on bbb beefcake longer @T3hPwnisher said I should do the program for 6 weeks. So that means Iâll be doing the program for 8 weeks because my bench is going to be moving behind my other lifts. or not?
I eat 4 meals a day. Everything else is going smooth except for bench.