So. Some thoughts from my last couple of blocks of training.
Too heavy. Definitely went too heavy, and too often. Mostly on bench…I survived. But only Just.
Squats were ok in this sense. The heavy day was probably a little higher in intensity than bench, but the lighter day was better. I was in a massive fatigue hole until recently…with estimated 1rm hovering closer to 135kg for some time. A few days rest, and voila. There’s 140kg. Some kind of confirmation that I was right about the fatigue hole. Atleast on bench.
Deadlifts we’re going Great guns until I hurt my back doing things outside of lifting. Then ran into a trap/lat issue, most likely caused by the bench being too heavy. They were feeling excellent on the lower frequency and lower volume, I’d say the squat consistency was driving that.
Squats…my old nemesis. I’d chosen to push the high bar deeper belt less squat variation for the two blocks. I think it’s paid off. I Want to come back to low bar soon. MAYBE next block. Maybe the one after. Or I’ll get it in the next one with just one day of low bar in the rotation and see what happens.
Where do I go from here?
I’m not yet actually finished this block, and with some adjustments to bench I probably should. So will. Will keep things nice and fresh and strong.
In the new year I think I am going to give the Sheiko Gold app a go. I’ve been playing with it the last little while just feeding it my workouts I planned myself. Logging my readiness ratings etc and just basically feeding it data.
Needs a other 15-16 days of logging before the AI will provide me anything in terms of a workout. So by the end of summer break we should both be ready for me to let it run things.
Just wanting some programming that will keep me in a good intensity range - and the best way to do that is to hand off the decisions. Lol. (I tried Juggernaut AI back in the day and hated it overall after running 4 blocks with it. It kept just loading in more and more volume and crushing me endlessly. In the final block I had sessions of things like 8 sets of 4, and 7 sets of 8 on hypertrophy type days. Silly. Unnecessary. And very much RP/Mike Israetel type shit. I’m not on enough gear for that)
I can influence things, so the programming won’t be Too different to what I like and enjoy, it will (hopefully) just be better informed.
Should be fun I think. I intend to use it for any competitions I compete in, or testing days I plan throughout the year, however it pans out.
Anyway. That’s my dose of verbal vomiting for the day.
Fuck rest day, I’m going in the garage to train accessories.
Glad it isn’t though haha.