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julius kelp

julius kelp

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post fall layoff & holiday cheesecake season stats:

wt-193
bf-~14
calf-14
chest-43
upper arm-14
thigh-22.5
waist-36

really depressing stuff. however, bobo to the rescue.
psyched & proud to be a new fla member. have a great week fellow bobo-ites.
 
just checking in day 4. diet is right on so far. i have to watch the clock a little so i don't bunch up a couple of meals. feels good to be back lifting, i'm enjoying the soreness i feel so...so alive! work is full on stupid right now, but i will not be allowing that to affect my
priorities. i'll leave week 1 stats this weekend. cheers.
 
Nice! Yeah I know all about that soreness. Its good and bad at the same time :)
 
week one & all's well

ah... the exquisite anguish i feel today from wed.'s leg training. especially after such a long break. today i walk like i have a coke bottle stuck up my ars. it makes me giggle like a little school girl. alot more volume than i had been practicing in the past. using pretty reduced loads to accomodate the tempos. anyhow, i guess this completes week one. diet & training have been strictly adherred to. think week 2 training will go much better even. funny thing, sporting wood in the am & a little acne on my back. maybe the training, diet are stimulating my natty T. drive's seem up a little too.

stats taken this morning (1/14/6)
weight (post am-bm) 196 (up 3)
waist-36 1/4"
upper arm-14.5 (up .5)
thigh-23 (up .5)
 
You will get some slight increases fomr the volume type workouts along with the amount of food. Strngth should start to climb once you get adjusted and soreness will not be as evident.
 
status 1/21/6

wt-195.5
bf-~14
calf-14
chest-43
upper arm-14.375
thigh-22.875
waist-36.25

training weight starting to come up. may make a spread sheet to track this. diet about 98% in check. let me know if changes are suggested.
 
Perfect progress :)
 
status 1/30/6

wt-195.5
bf-~14
calf-14
chest-42
upper arm-14.375
thigh-23.25
waist-35.625

actually broke almost perfect diet/training sched. had to leave town to attend funeral. was sitting in my cousins guest bedroom late at night eating cold fish in secret (hehe) did NOT eat any of the cookies, pie, casseroles etc that were being shoved at me. took my ice chest & did the best i could on the road. ate a couple of fast food chicken sandwiches to try & fill in. damn white bread! got back to the plan today. thought about trying to cram in the make-up training, but will just get back on track tomorrow.
 
1/31 strength was up pretty noticeably after not training for 4 days in a row. i'm almost halfway through the 8 week course.
 
halfway progress (?) 2/4/6

bodyfat ~14
weight 195.5
calf 14
chest 43
fore 11.5
upper arm 14.375
thigh 23.5
waist 35.5
 
How is strength? Any increases this week?
 
have been increasing loads each session. sometimes at the cost of tempo or form though. havn't acclimated to the higher reps as well as i had hoped. tend to fatigue at 6-8 reps. end up rest pausing & increasing rest periods.
 

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You might just have to bite the bullet and reduce the weight. I reduced my lifts a few months back because, although I was making my rep numbers, I was reaching failure in just about every set.

The result was a better 'feel' to the workout, kinda like mentally and physically being in a better groove. Subconsciously, I also took much smaller rest periods and knocked 15 mins off my w.o time!

When I trained with max-ot principles, I always strived to increase the weight every week. Now, with Bobo's program, I take a much more conservatve approach to putting the weights up. Sort of 'if it happens, it happens' attitude, trying not to second guess when I'll make strength gains.

Alot of the time I wait until a weight becomes 'light' before increasing it at the next workout, 2 WEEKS later!

Long-winded but I hope it helps.
 
julius kelp said:
have been increasing loads each session. sometimes at the cost of tempo or form though. havn't acclimated to the higher reps as well as i had hoped. tend to fatigue at 6-8 reps. end up rest pausing & increasing rest periods.
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Don't increase the weight unless you can keep with the ratios and form. I konw you want to feel as if your weights are going up but if you force the issue you are only cheating yourself. You have to be patient because its takes time for your body to adjust.
 
i guess i've just been stuck in the old way of thinking that if i don't increase loads, i won't see any change. i really thought that my adaptation would overtake the small increments i was adding each session. i can certainly see that substituting higher loads for crappier form/shorter tut isn't going to achieve much either. i'll make the necessary mods. & thanks for the comments bms0lsc.
 
You WILL increase your loads but over time. Don't forece the issue. I deinfelty want you to increase the weight but only when you CAN. That means if you try the same exercise next week or in 2 weeks and the first set is easier with the weight you've use before, then increase it. It might not stay that way once you are through all the sets but you HAVE increased the overall load. It just takes time and I don't want you to force the issue.

You have to remember that even if the increase is small, its actually much larger than you think since you overall TUT is much more (4-5 second reps) than it was previously. So if you were using traditional, faster tempos and increased 5-10lbs, the same overall load is increased using the TUT principle when you only increase by 2-3lbs.
 
You should change it only if the need arises. If you think by the 3rd or 4th set you can't conplete the number of reps with that weight then you should switch to a lighter weight. This just takes time and feel and its normal for one not to know for several weeks. If you are off by a rep or two its not a big deal. Just try to stick to it as close as possible.
 
did the leg thang tonight. after trying to heave progressively more & more gratuitous weights, i have reduced loads by like 25-30% to get back to pure form & tempo. also cutting rests to a minute typically. even with greatly lessened loads suffering is readily attainable with concentration on target muscles, longer tut, & short rests.
 
Why are you only taking minute rests? It specifically states to take 2-3 minutes minimum.
 
i lowered weights to do absolute tempos & form. generally 1 min & was ready to do another set. occasionally 2-3mins if necessary. it has also been getting me through all the reps in 35-40 mins. 3 min rests X 15 sets has been like 45 mins of rest
 
There is no way you should be doing 1 minutes rests. It specifically states 2-3 minutes are the minumum and even longer for larger muscle groups.

I don't want you "getting through" the reps in 35-40 minutes.

What is the point in me designing something when you are just ignoring it?

At this point you are doing a HIT proigram which is not what I want....
 
Re: one week to go 2/25/6

julius kelp said:
wt-195.5
bf-~14
calf-14
chest-42
upper arm-14.5
thigh-23.5
waist-36
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And there is your result. Workouts are too fast, not enough rest time, too much heart rate and you are ripping through calories.

Pointless.

Doing these workouts in that short of time is overtraining. There is no WAY they should be done this fast. You are increasing microtrauma therefore your rest time NEEDS to be increased during sets. You are sabotaging your own gains by not following the actual plan.
 
Nope, haven't received anything.
 
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