What an amazing find your channel was. No BS, perfect, real training advice, not just the basic gimmicks like calories in, calories out, upper/lower splits, blablabla everyone knows the echo chamber that people continue to talk about. Thank you for all your insights.
I totally agree with the last part about just letting a PR happen, your always so stoked when it happens randomly. Good way to enjoy it and your more than likely stick with your training.
Very well said. Adaptation can be stimulated but not controlled, and learning how to keep it going is another constant endeavour that goes parallel to it.
As of late, I regained pretty much all my strength on the close grip floor press from blocks. It did not come from a linear block of training, but from a mix of sessions where I trained light, medium or heavy, sometimes as light as 60% for sets of 3, other times something challenging, like a ramp-up to a difficult top set, or straight sets with something heavy until I complete all sets or feel too much fatigued and call it a day. But I did notice progress and now I'm starting to think of going for a new PR. Sometimes, I try an XXL shirt and it fits tightly at my shoulders and arms, so I'm back with all the muscle I used to have there when I was 45. Turned 52 this year. It should be noted that I very seldom train to failure. Sometimes I'll write a 5+ top set and push the reps, other times I do sets of 3-4, starting very light until I'm at some heavy-ass weight where I do only 2-3 good reps and stop there. Other times I'll do back-off volume. It varies a lot with the lift I'm working, my energy levels, soreness or lack of, tendon fatigue, etc., etc.
unknowing the possibility of plus or minus up to 20% variation of our daily strength , was driven me crazy i thought we should always able to maintain same strength most days
I find it happening to me especially on the squat: i add weight, do less reps and it feels good but as i add more reps over the weeks to get towards the top end of the rep range I sometimes have to perform very high effort sets like RPE 9-10 or even rest pause to get the last rep and I'm not sure what to do to avoid this
So in otherwords, focus most of your training in the, call it, 5-10 rep range for hypertrophy and let the strength that should naturally come with the added sized come in its own time?
yup. loving your insights. sharp - intelligent - elite lifts. super athletic. inspired me to explore of a range of lifts / styles every day this year while squatting every second day....hopefully consistency will bring some improvements.
0:57 would you say the muscle contributions overlap as you finish your novice phase or does it happen a bit earlier ? edit: i realised there are week indicators at the bottom... are these for whenever you begin a new strength program or just lifting in general ?
