Great movie, and scene!!!!I doubt this will help w body fat but if ever in San Francisco…
Great movie, and scene!!!!I doubt this will help w body fat but if ever in San Francisco…
The good 'ol daysI doubt this will help w body fat but if ever in San Francisco…
Weird, but I get it. I think I most recently left off with pauses at bottom around 250lbs x 5 reps, so I opted on the conservative side with 225 x 3x5 on the spottos until I can get the feel for them. rep 5 for each was a challenge. They definitely feel like they would contribute to better coordination and control through the whole lift since I can't simply anticipate momentum in any direction.How did the Spoto’s feel?
Yeah removing that momentum is a different animal.Weird, but I get it. I think I most recently left off with pauses at bottom around 250lbs x 5 reps, so I opted on the conservative side with 225 x 3x5 on the spottos until I can get the feel for them. rep 5 for each was a challenge. They definitely feel like they would contribute to better coordination and control through the whole lift since I can't simply anticipate momentum in any direction.
Ahhhh, yes the wonderful Bioelectric Impedance Analysis method of body fat measurement. It is about as accurate as guessing someone's gender in San Francisco is, it is only going to be right on occasion.
That's interesting, I have always felt like BB training was the harder, and more grueling out of the 2. Shorter rest periods, more volume, more burning in muscles, and they are normally closer to failure than a well thought out powerlifting program ever gets unless it includes an AMRAP or a Max attempt of some sort. I think bottom line though, what you are putting into it is what makes them easier, and or harder than one another. I would also imagine that XFit is probably harder than both due to the entire body being involved, even shorter rest periods, and i do believe they do a lot of volume as well correct?SO paid my wife's coach yesterday and saw her break down and plan. Honestly it looks fantastic. It's very obviously bb/physique focused rather than say PL or oly for obvious reasons but well thought out.
In my head bodybuilding was always the easier training in the gym over PL or say Xfit
But the nutritional aspect of course is the area where it is suddenly 10x harder.
her lifting days look awesome, effective, and "easier", but the real grind will be the daily food prep. I love the approach her coach has, should have killer results.
Good points!That's interesting, I have always felt like BB training was the harder, and more grueling out of the 2. Shorter rest periods, more volume, more burning in muscles, and they are normally closer to failure than a well thought out powerlifting program ever gets unless it includes an AMRAP or a Max attempt of some sort. I think bottom line though, what you are putting into it is what makes them easier, and or harder than one another. I would also imagine that XFit is probably harder than both due to the entire body being involved, even shorter rest periods, and i do believe they do a lot of volume as well correct?
Ya all of them are just different "flavors" in my mind. Definitely feel some of the bodybuilding stuff would be tougher in the sense of proximity to failure, while CF just takes much longer due to sessions with so much endurance focusing. Mentally I think bodybuilding seems tougher because progress is much more "subjective" and maybe harder to constantly measure compared to something like your s/b/dl or in CF you can trick yourself into thinking you are making progress due to it being easy to get lost of the main goal with basically endless points to measure.That's interesting, I have always felt like BB training was the harder, and more grueling out of the 2. Shorter rest periods, more volume, more burning in muscles, and they are normally closer to failure than a well thought out powerlifting program ever gets unless it includes an AMRAP or a Max attempt of some sort. I think bottom line though, what you are putting into it is what makes them easier, and or harder than one another. I would also imagine that XFit is probably harder than both due to the entire body being involved, even shorter rest periods, and i do believe they do a lot of volume as well correct?
that right there might be the nail on the head. I have always found 1rm training, AMRAP, endurance, etc training to be excruciating, whereas any form of BB style lifting to me has always been more enjoyable. All three leave me in a puddle of sweat.Guess it just depends on what one has the predisposition to I guess
Nice session, hopefully the foot heals soon! Even the All out pre I work up a heck of a sweat!!Leg ext
5 x 12
Leg curls
4 x 12
Adductor machine
4 x 20 - ascending weight
Back squats
5 x 135, 185, 225
10 x 135
Front squats
3 x 10 x 95
Cardio
Row - 2000m
Bike - 12 min
Notes
Weight 196.5
Heck of a time getting a barbell again today. But I wanted to go easy on that left foot anyways, it still a bit tender. Getting sweaty as hell towards the tail end of this all out sweat run.
Nice session, hopefully the foot heals soon! Even the All out pre I work up a heck of a sweat!!
Get em! LOL“Return of the Slingshot”![]()
this hasn't been my experience, I haven't found it to be exhaustive at all and typically back off sets are far better when I do sling shot work, the only reason I don't do more, or heavier, is a lack of spotters to be honest. yesterday I definitely would have preferred to go higher for a few more sets.inefficient use of energy
You absolutely don't need a slingshot to do heavy top end work, you can just do unracks and holds. Otherwise your full ROM heavy top end work should be the result of pressing unassisted off of your chest so you are strengthening the bottom of the movement, especially since your lock out power has surpassed your pressing power. When the slingshot originally brought your bench up quickly you had a lockout weakness from triceps, but now after using it for so long you have more than corrected that problem. So it isn't going to give the same stimulus and results as before. The realityis that without the slingshot you would be working with 10-20lbs less weight but still actually be your unassisted top end heavy work, it would just be giving you the same amount of progress on your pecs as triceps.after the last 18 months or so one thing I have noticed is that if I don't regularly hold heavy weight, heavy weight gets heavier. No amount of volume at lower weight has any meaningful carry over for me and the only thing that has consistently increased my top end numbers is training top end weight. Of course additional work like pauses and banded stuff seems to compliment it but with bench the one thing I have seen over and over again is that not training top end weight means falling backwards.
I haven't had my spotter available to me since he went on vacation around June 1st, and no safety pins available at my gym so it's been hard to get heavy work in consistently.
this hasn't been my experience, I haven't found it to be exhaustive at all and typically back off sets are far better when I do sling shot work, the only reason I don't do more, or heavier, is a lack of spotters to be honest. yesterday I definitely would have preferred to go higher for a few more sets.
No man, he’s right.after the last 18 months or so one thing I have noticed is that if I don't regularly hold heavy weight, heavy weight gets heavier. No amount of volume at lower weight has any meaningful carry over for me and the only thing that has consistently increased my top end numbers is training top end weight. Of course additional work like pauses and banded stuff seems to compliment it but with bench the one thing I have seen over and over again is that not training top end weight means falling backwards.
I haven't had my spotter available to me since he went on vacation around June 1st, and no safety pins available at my gym so it's been hard to get heavy work in consistently.
this hasn't been my experience, I haven't found it to be exhaustive at all and typically back off sets are far better when I do sling shot work, the only reason I don't do more, or heavier, is a lack of spotters to be honest. yesterday I definitely would have preferred to go higher for a few more sets.
Agreed, that is all neural training, increasing neural capacity to fire as many of your muscle fibers as hard as possible all at once. Yes you will lose some top end strength temporarily but then you said 4-6 weeks after putting the hammer down on strength training you will more than likely be hitting even better numbers, not just getting back to your old max. Think of it like seasons in the PNY @Dustin07 you have to go through the long sunless days to get to the long sun out days you desire. The drudgery and work is like the long dark season, and the realization of growth and work gives you a new PR similar to the beauty you get to experience around you in those months with longer days. You have to go through those what feel like not so light filled days to get to the reward after.And I just say that because I want to see you hit your goals. If you are happier doing things X way and don’t care as much about the destination or timeline, I respect the hell out of that.
But I want you to know that before all of the new bench PRs I ever had, there was significant focus on accumulation phases, usually months where I wasn’t touching even 90% of whatever my daily 1RM was at the moment. It takes less time to acclimate to heavy loads than you think; that’s why most peaking blocks are 6 weeks or less.
Not that the stuff I deleted also didn't really matter too, but these two lines I think sum up what i was trying to say. All the guys I know who have built massive benches slug away like the top line. Lots of reps also doesn't even mean per set, but just like accumulating a ton over the session to over the whole week.Most great raw benchers need to do a lot of benching, whether they accrue total weekly volume over 2 or even 3-4 weekly exposures to variants - it’s a lot of reps.
As mentioned, if you just wanna do it - that’s a very pure thing, doing what you love in the gym for the sake of it. But maintaining a max is not really how you build a greater max.
Is it feasible for you build you a shed out back with a power rack, some weights and an adjustable set of dumbells that get decently heavy. Throw in the cable pulley system and lat pulldown and you could save yourself a ton of time, gas money and frustration with trying to get to the gym on time with a home gym.Ahaha oh man I love you guys. If Tapatalk would let multiquote I would reply in depth, I will get back to it soon tho but keep the advice and good words coming-
Real quick @MrKleen73 - no immediate use of real power racks. We have three lifting platforms at one facility and two at the other. They aren't identical. The one that I could set up with safety pins doesn't have free benches to drag over, the one that does have a couple benches, is setup different.
Where I'm happy is that the strength ceiling is now the floor and that feels pretty damn good so a lot of what I'm balancing is maintaining strength through the time slots I have available.....
FWIW, I used to leave work at 4 and get to our old box where I basically met my wife by around 4:30, change, lift, have a great time.
Now days the same distance is 60minutes in the morning and 90-120 at night. So my ideal gym is nearly a two hour commute away after work... Right now, using what's available in my time slots. The gym closest to my house is one my my favorites by unfortunately hard to get to time wise. To show how much things have changed in the PNW his fees are now more than what I used to pay in total when I had three gym memberships at the same time lol.
It's good tho. I helped him build his gym, moved all his equipment when he got a bigger space etc. It's a great place, but not realistic for me to have good consistency there after the evening commute. To lift there in the morning I'd have to leave my house at 3:50am, lift at his place, shower/change, etc get to my office about 6, back to the commute around 4. See the wife/dinner at 6-7, in bed around 7:30 if I'm looking for 8hrs
We are super blessed in our life but the reality is the traffic boom in our region in the past 5 years has changed my time economy greatly.
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