Recent content by adpowah

Kind of getting back into it. We bought a duplex with our friends and it has been a lot of work. I'm at about 75% strength but I am going to focus on some fitness for a while.

I definitely don't know if your experience is like mine but I experienced this the first and second times I did DUP. I found too much max effort to failure got me real sick (cold like flu) real quick. The second time it happened I decided to just be a man about and train through. I reasoned I...

So to answer how you should scale your sets/reps will depend on a handful of factors: What was your previous cycles' training intensities and volumes like? Would moving to 2 sets each represent a large reduction in volume compared to your previous training? How many "hard" sets a week can you...

Well there are some benefits to BFR that even submax can't offer, but I don't think it is a "always better than" type situation. I'm not very versed in it myself (it makes my wife uncomfortable to see me with tourniquets on ) but the pump you get is pretty hard to reproduce without using BFR and...

I find squatting then leg pressing to have good results. Squats are obviously a great lift, then leg press lets you add a bit more volume to the quads without having to worry about all the little muscles and systems that get fatigued from squatting. If you just love squatting I have found...

I'm sure that's a great cake and all but it looks like it is being served on a bed of pubes.

You can workout as often as you can recover. I find 2-3 workouts a week is my max because I live a high stress life, I'm 37 and I hate sleeping. Sometimes I workout more than that, but in a short amount of time I can see/feel a fatigue debt and I can feel it in my personality, alertness and...

I'm so sorry Mick.

Congrats for going 9/9 and qualifying for Brit Champs! Great execution on those lifts.

Below is my current program. Everything has been going smoothly. A handful of highlights were a casual 495 sumo for a single after 260x20. Squat 325 3x3 and Bench 245 3x3. I'm going to take an SD followed by a week of 15s at my "cardio" or 20 rep weights, then add 5-10lbs to the below and get...

lol as I looked at that chart all I could hear was Rippetoe saying "Five by Five" real slow like. Good discussion though.

I've been experimenting with variety lately and 1 month in have been having really good results. I think for novice lifters this potentially exposes them to a higher chance of injury since the odds of them being able to be good enough at a large variety of lifts can take time.

When I was really focused on benching I found back to back days of hard training really beneficial.

June (mid) updates: Moved to a DUP high variety program for the next 12-16 weeks. Some highlights so far; Bench 225x12, Sumo 425 3x3, Squat 315 3x3, Clean & Press 145 3x3, and weightloss is on target down from 212 to a 208 average about 1lb ahead of schedule. Some things didn't go as great...

I just treat myo-rep sets as "lots of work/stress/fatigue, little bit of time", so for me if I don't see myself developing that volume over the course of the next couple workouts or using as a final push within a block then I wouldn't see it as specifically beneficial unless you need to free up...