Squat weights felt light as hell today, OHP wasn’t the lightest, but still pretty good, gunna keep these weights for a little.
Squat
45x5
95x5
135x3
185x2
230x3x5
OHP
45x5
75x3
100x3x5
random back stuff
nice and easy light day
squat
45x5
95x5
135x5
185x2x5
bench
45x5
95x5
135x3x5
random pullups
Pretty friggen good workout
Squat
45x5
95x5
135x3
225x1
265x5 PR 5lbs
OHP
45x5
125x2
Deadlift
135x1
225x1
295x3 PR 10lbs
I want to kill myself. I failed at 275 for 1 today.
[quote]Macmade wrote:
I want to kill myself. I failed at 275 for 1 today. [/quote]
sleep is fucked? bad diet? not your day? any of those could be a reason
or my body decides to play some shenanigans before giving me some new power that is going to allow me smash some 100 lb PRs…
[quote]Macmade wrote:
or my body decides to play some shenanigans before giving me some new power that is going to allow me smash some 100 lb PRs…[/quote]
or that LMAO
pretty good workout today, squats were just TOO easy, but I increase my volume day weight every 3rd week, because I make progress on intensity day still. No point in continuously increasing volume day weight if it’s not needed.
Squat
45x5
95x5
135x3
185x2
230x3x5
Bench
45x5
95x4
155x3x5
random back stuff
[quote]XArena wrote:
pretty good workout today, squats were just TOO easy, but I increase my volume day weight every 3rd week, because I make progress on intensity day still. No point in continuously increasing volume day weight if it’s not needed.
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I think you could make faster progress if you increased your volume day and intensity day at the same rate. Volume day’s supposed to be a real bitch of a session.
its up to you, of course.
[quote]hastalles wrote:
[quote]XArena wrote:
pretty good workout today, squats were just TOO easy, but I increase my volume day weight every 3rd week, because I make progress on intensity day still. No point in continuously increasing volume day weight if it’s not needed.
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I think you could make faster progress if you increased your volume day and intensity day at the same rate. Volume day’s supposed to be a real bitch of a session.
its up to you, of course.[/quote]
well really as long as your intensity day is going up, that really is all that matters in my opinion, because that’s when you break PR’s, I’m just trying to disrupt homeostatus JUST enough to increase 5lbs every intensity day, and if I ever stop increasing on intensity day, I just do 4x5 instead of 5x5 or start increasing weight more often on volume day, I beleive rip said something similar to what I just said and that’s where I got all this from haha
Whatever works 
Nice and easy today, I’m not even sure why squatting 185 feels heavy when I 265 felt so light… whatever
Squat
45x5
95x5
135x3
185x2x5
OHP
45x5
85x3x5
15/2 pullups supersetted with chins
10 chins
Upper body lifts aren’t going so well… not sure why, but lower body is just amazing.
Squat
45x5
95x5
135x3
185x2
225x1
270x5 PR 5lbs
Bench
135x3
180x2
Deadlift
135x1
225x1
305x3 PR 10lbs
I think its obvious to conclude that Squat and Deadlift improve the most when done frequently with medium-high intensity. Probably because large muscle groups work better with compound lifts and allow faster recovery and Texas Method/3x5/5x5/other routines take advantage of that. However upper body lifts improve the most when all the muscle required are trained and targeted, and these routines do not work for them because upper body lifts do not work best, good though, with compound lifts and because there are more muscle groups incorporated in upper body lifts. Wonder if I can develope a routine combining the upper body days in Westside with lower body in Texas Method without causing over-training. Hope that makes sense.
[quote]Macmade wrote:
I think its obvious to conclude that Squat and Deadlift improve the most when done frequently with medium-high intensity. Probably because large muscle groups work better with compound lifts and allow faster recovery and Texas Method/3x5/5x5/other routines take advantage of that. However upper body lifts improve the most when all the muscle required are trained and targeted, and these routines do not work for them because upper body lifts do not work best, good though, with compound lifts and because there are more muscle groups incorporated in upper body lifts. Wonder if I can develope a routine combining the upper body days in Westside with lower body in Texas Method without causing over-training. Hope that makes sense.[/quote]
I was thnking of that, because I realized that this is great for my loewr body but my upper body lifts are doing bad, idk what to do yet though
Weren’t you able to bench 185x2? I think what to do is adding a day in Texas method specifically for upper body work. Basically the person would have the volume day, dynamic day and max day for the lower body just like this routine but the person would have the westside bench dynamic on volume and bench max on dynamic lower and ohp on max lower. The extra fourth day if needed would be accessory upper body lift?
Am I carving out a new routine here?
[quote]Macmade wrote:
Weren’t you able to bench 185x2? I think what to do is adding a day in Texas method specifically for upper body work. Basically the person would have the volume day, dynamic day and max day for the lower body just like this routine but the person would have the westside bench dynamic on volume and bench max on dynamic lower and ohp on max lower. The extra fourth day if needed would be accessory upper body lift?
Am I carving out a new routine here?[/quote]
Okay well I thought of something that makes a little more sense
Volume day/ DE upper
Squat 3x5 @ 90% of 5RM
Bench 8x2 @ 50-60%
-Upper body work-
Light day
Squat 2x5 @ 80% of volume day
-back exercises-
Inensity Day
Squat- work to 5RM
ME Exercise (upper)- work to 3-5RM
Deadlift- work to 3RM
grats on the PR’s
don’t Frankenstein dammit
finish texas method then do something else
Do you really think trying to hit a PR on everything on Intensity Day is a gud idea? I think we should put ME upper exercise on Light day, and DE upper on Intensity. Volume day can be OHP and if needed, throw in another day doing all accessories. You only deadlift 3 heavy reps a week?
[quote]fr0IVIan wrote:
grats on the PR’s
don’t Frankenstein dammit
finish texas method then do something else[/quote]
Thank you, 270 went up way easier than my last PR of 265 also, which really made me happy aha
I don’t plan on doing that routine I wrote above because I don’t wanna fuck with the texas method because it really is an amazing program in my opinion and it works for squat and deadlift, I think my percentages are too high on volume day for upper body lifts though, so I adjusted that.