One of the mistakes I made was seeing a jacked up Olympic lifter or powerlifter and thinking, doing what they do will get me jacked and stacked, well we have to learn quickly if we are talented enough for that. A decade of technical work and still only lifting mediocre weight won’t do it. Gotta fi…

It takes longer to recover from big, heavy singles than from “regular” training. Like if it takes you a week to recover and progress between “regular” workouts, it might takes 2 weeks to recover from some heavy, heavy work. If you don’t know that and rush and string the heavy workouts together, it…

They just call it 5/3/1. You don’t even really do any 1 rep sets.

[image] FlatsFarmer: They just call it 5/3/1. My bad. I had forgotten that the “1” was 1 plus a target of 5 additional reps, if I understood the program correctly.

Another way to use heavy singles. [image] Wave Loading - Thibarmy Wave loading has always been my favorite way of organizing heavy lifting work for both neurological and psychological reasons. [image] Wave Loading Training for Bench Press Bi…

My best heavy farmers dead lift in my heyday was 300an arm, I lifted it, walked about 20’ dropped it, picked it up again walked it about 5’ and I was done. 2nd pickup strained my ribs. Fast forward 20years, I’m trying to get back to that 600# lift. I had 510 and did reps, last rep was rep 4, do y…

Another method. This one uses the heavy singles to make the main sets of 6 “better.” [image] The 1-6 Principle Vital Whole Human [The-1-6-Principle] by Charles Poliquin Like training hard and heavy? You’ll love this classic training plan that uses heavy loads …

[image] Cretin78: I told myself, I should have just done 1-heavier lift for 1-rep. Or stopped at 3.

That would not of been my 3-rep max though.

I hit two 1-rep maxes today- BOR = 12# PR EZ curl close grip. The BORs are harder to tell that you have gone completely all out, but I’ll take a 12# weight PR! With the curls, this is a first. I will allow leaning back only, but forward momentum I won’t count (I usually use forward momentum when…

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Another method. This one uses the heavy singles to make the main sets of 6 “better.”

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