[quote]lift206 wrote:
Yeah the BBB Challenge calls for Heavy SQ/Volume DL one day and Heavy DL/Volume SQ on another. I am currently running the full Sheiko 29/30/31 for the first time (for SQ and DL) so I’m still testing the waters with the full program. When I first ran Sheiko I ran it with true maxes and now I add weight depending on how the overall cycle felt. My DL training max is generally less than my true max and it’s the opposite for SQ. I still have a lot of room for improvement on SQ form, especially when going heavy.[/quote]
As far as feeling heavy goes, I think everyone gets that sometimes, the important bit is how it affects the lifts - for instance, does the bar speed drop or technique fly out the window? If it feels heavy but moves ok, then I wouldn’t change it up yet, ride if out for a bit and see where you end up.
[quote]cowpie wrote:
As far as feeling heavy goes, I think everyone gets that sometimes, the important bit is how it affects the lifts - for instance, does the bar speed drop or technique fly out the window? If it feels heavy but moves ok, then I wouldn’t change it up yet, ride if out for a bit and see where you end up.[/quote]
Right. I guess, for me at least, I have found it difficult to get the most out of that top-end set when everything feels heavy. Again, though, I find it interesting that heavy singles always feel smooth.
I pretty much have to go through cycles, about 6 weeks for example, where I ramp up to heavy percentages. Rinse and repeat. Otherwise, weights will feel so ungodly heavy to me it becomes frustrating and I contemplate doing bodybuilding. That has always been my issue with 5/3/1 when I have tried it. About 3 cycles of it and it is like my body forgets how to get under a heavy weight. Not sure if it is perhaps a CNS issue where it loses it’s adaptation to +85% loads in relation to my true 1RM.
[quote]Evolv wrote:
I pretty much have to go through cycles, about 6 weeks for example, where I ramp up to heavy percentages. Rinse and repeat. Otherwise, weights will feel so ungodly heavy to me it becomes frustrating and I contemplate doing bodybuilding. That has always been my issue with 5/3/1 when I have tried it. About 3 cycles of it and it is like my body forgets how to get under a heavy weight. Not sure if it is perhaps a CNS issue where it loses it’s adaptation to +85% loads in relation to my true 1RM. [/quote]
I feel you on that one, man. And I guess that’s why I’ve always been a heavy singles kind of guy. I never found that I was stronger after the secondary barbell movements/assistance work and just kind of dropped it all together. Sure the extra work was giving my sarcoplasmic hypertrophy but it did little for the myofibrillar.
Ha, ha. Someone in the same boat. That’s why I got away from all of the assistance stuff and started really pushing the lifts I’m actually being judged on. If you don’t mind me asking, though, how do you structure your training in terms of volume/frequency/intensity?