He gotta be one of the most chill youtubers. He just does his workouts and discusses random lifting related topics, and hes an absolute beast. Love his videos.
@@hamishakl it doesn't take anything away from his lift and the original commenter wasn't indicating it does. he's simply saying it wasn't due to pin squats or a "poor man's peak phase," as our sika leaders have deduced.
Extra sleep, less stress, more food and going from high volume (bodyweight squats for high reps among other things) into a deload (he got sick) and then a lot of practice above 90% (let’s say his intrinsic max was 212,5kg all along before the break from his work).
He builds confidence in the session with supra-physiological weights (relative to his squats). The tool was/is mental as much as it is physiological, IMO.
I think there was a few more smaller compounding factors that may have helped him achieve his PB. He said he gained a small amount of weight, he was on holiday from work (less stress, less time on feet), he was sleeping better/more consistent, there may be more, but this is what I picked up.
Awesome video!!! I've found it hard to find people on RU-vid that balance technical research and digestibility of new information and you guys have solved that! Excited to see more content from you guys around these types of breakdown videos!
Thank you for the educational content. The performance anxiety effecting actual physiological changes and the post activation theory (really helped w the the beer can experiment) makes quite a lot of sense. Thank you lads.🙏 Go Sikastan. And long live Ivan.
IRL beer can equivalent for me is lifting milk out of the fridge, sometimes my brain is thinking it's heavier than it is, and I end up smacking it off the shelf above
I used to warm up to a heavy deadlift single before I would squat. Not a 1rm or anything but just about 80%, which was still much more than my squat. Heavier weights on squat would feel much lighter afterwards
So, what would your thoughts be on a powerlifter training these PAP style squats every few months lets just say for one week every three months just so they have some experience in it but not enough time spent doing it to accumulate dramatic fatigue and then using this as a tool while warming up let's just say for squat in a powerlifting competition to give themselves a new 1rm that is realistically outside of their achievable numbers under normal circumstances.
I'm running the squat program now. It's fucking hard and miserable and I absolutely love it. Finishing week 4 tomorrow! Can't wait to go for the PB in week 8!! PS: I've never done this amount of volume at these percentages before. Holy fucking shit is all I'll say 🤙🤙🤙
Can you guys make a video on why heavy weights are less fatiguing than doing more volume. This sounds counterintuitive to me but I've definitely experienced it in my training. More info on this would be phenomenal, I'd love to see what some of the scientific studies have to say about this.
Think of it like this. You move 100kg for 3m up and down in your squat. You can do that 3 times for example cause thats how heavy you can lift. So you move 100kg for 9 meters = 1000N * 9m= 9000 J of work. While for a lower weight , for 50kg . You can probably do 20 reps... 30 reps even in that 3m range of motion from the bar going up and down while you squat . So thats 500N * ( 20 reps* 3m ) = 30000 J of work . Basically you do more work than you would with your high intensity lifts.
I can relate so much about the butterflies when you expect to hit a new max, and as you descend into the hole you just KNOW in the back of your head that you're not going up with that bar on your back. Sucks hahaha.
Yeah I think at some point you have to be honest with yourself and realise what you’re doing isnt effective. He either needs to up his calories if he’s gonna keep squatting everyday or stop and follow a program 2-3 times a week. I’ve never seen someone work so hard as him and it sucks to see him not progress.
@@ReonKad3 his job doesn’t do him any help either. In the 2 weeks he had off he was hitting 200 kgs with ease. On his first day back to work he missed 200kg
I've been following it for a bit lately and my initial interpretation didn't have anything to do with his immediate training or the fact that he'd been using different exercises etc (as there literally wouldn't have been enough time for adaptation to occur, with the exception being this phenomenon with the pin squats), instead I just saw that he was on annual leave from nursing, and as he tends to train to a daily maximum, his level of fatigue will be chronically high. Therefore, his previous max was probably set under a decent amount of fatigue, so simply be removing work as a stress and allowing himself some more recovery, then of course he was able to his 5 kg shy of his max for 2 weeks and then beat it, because his max isn't actually an accurate representation of his true, rested, competition potential.
Hey gents, am I to gather you two are saying due to Ivan’s pap method or pin squats where he made a PB of 210kg this day was actually a ‘false’ or max PB rep? Sounds like to me you’re explaining that his PB 210 was not his real strength and only due to this PAP. Almost like a sense of fooling the CNS temporarily to lift super 1 rm. that’s not actual strength level. Whoa 🤯 good stuff!!! I just think there’s many forms and routes of strength building. Ivan is another form different that your guys. This is ok boys. Still love you guys content on this 👍🏽
Are there any strategies out there to over come that psychological factor involved with bombing or becoming too stressed because you've peaked or prepared for example.
could that idea of using heavier weights for low reps to get more rest but still train heavy be why the chinese tend to do a lot of heavy squats and pulls right before competitions?
So, with all of this that you said, how it could be explained the success of Abadjiev's training system, where everyone was lifting max weights every day?
The weight was not at a volume to tax the CNS more than could be recovered, there was a high use of anabolic agents to increase the recovery ability and there was a high degree of burn out from this.
Great video! Good science, and great to see Ivan under the spotlights, even if it is the Sikastan inquisitorial searchlights. 😁 On a side note, I'm starting to get triggered by the increasing use of the word "Supraphysiological" in the YT fitness community, because most of the time it's used erroneously (and don't get me started on "superphysiological 😂).
I would just like a video on what you think on his training in generell hes been doing 600 or so days of squatting and he is now squatting 210 or a little more When he started he was i think at either 180 or 160 i think he squatted 180 before starting the everyday squat and i just think thats not a great progress
They have done a couple of videos on this type of training including a interview with Ivan. The bottom line is this is not the best style to train and Ivan knows it. He's not doing it to be the best at squatting.
@@DredFulProductions I like Ivan a lot, he seems like a nice guy. However, the dude has no idea what the hell he's doing when it comes to programming. The only value he brings with his experience of squatting everyday is how to do so without severing crippling yourself. If you're actually looking to make progress, squatting every single day is a terrible training scheme. It's insane that he's lasted this long. His training has no long term plan. It's just squat, then perform a handful of assistance exercises that he's experimenting with based off what he thinks he needs on how his body has been feeling the past day or two. I'm sorry but training just doesn't work that way. Adaptations to training can sometimes manifest themselves months after the particular training cycle has been completed. You can't just constantly tweak the training based on daily "vital signs" like Ivan talks about. If he hopped on a legit program supervised by an experienced coach I wouldn't be surprised if his squat jumped 50 pounds after a training cycle or two.
Yet again people who do not understand RPE. RPE is not a measure of your feelings. It is a measure of performance, yes your feelings do play into it, but only how a lift felt AFTER you did the lift. But performance metrics, such as bar speed does also play into PRE hence why people like Mike T. can use a tendo unit to measure his RPE.
@@Sealed_Chamber It may get bigger, it might get a little bigger, it may not get bigger at all, we'll see what happens but regardless of what happens we are totally prepared.
He would be so much stronger if he trained semi-intelligently. Still enjoy his content but every once in a while he’ll drop a realization he’s made in a video that would make you believe he’s realizing how dumb this style of training is. Unfortunately he hasn’t quite realized it.
@@trenhen4311 oh yeah you’re definitely right, don’t get me wrong. It’s hard to understand willingly chasing a goal with one of the worst possible routes is all. It’s easy to imagine a teenager benching every single day - they’re new and ignorant. Ivan’s bending over backwards to make an inefficient program give him any sort of progress.
I feel like the method of squatting every day could be very good but you’d have to program in light and heavy days pretty radically to make it worthwhile But I like the sentiment of always doing work
@@trenhen4311 it took him quite a while to go from 200kg to 210kg. It’s going to be a lot harder to squeeze progress out the further up it goes. Females handle volume and fatigue better than guys for a number of reasons. If you can stop squatting every day and into a more productive training system it’ll pay off quite a bit down the road. Best of luck!
