[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Jvroig, how are your strength gains and joints holding up doing the same exercises everyday? Sometimes that becomes a problem for me doing the same exercises everyday when I start doing heavy weights.
For the past months, since fully recovering from a minor shoulder injury (right shoulder) due to astoundingly poor bench press form two years ago, I have been experiencing no joint problems at all. I don't really like changing my exercises, so it's no problem personally for me. If it really is a probelm for you, then you can do alternating exercises I guess. Like alternating squats with deads, dips with bench, chins with rows, something like that. The idea though is to still stick with the biggest core exercises available to you.
My strength gains are pretty good, actually! I'm pretty hyped about it. For example, just last cycle, I marked down what my absolute 8RM was for my bench press. But on my cycle right now, I added 5 pounds to my 8RM last cycle, and did 10 reps! If I wanted to, I believe I could have pushed it to one more complete rep (making it my 11RM or something), but since I train at home, alone (absolutely no partner), I don't like pushing my luck - you know one of the tenets of HST, staying injury free.
(and ever had even just a 130 or 140 pound barbell rest on your chest because you can't lift it anymore? I have, it hurts, I don't want it to happen again - for the fourth time! Hahaha, yeah, it happened a few times already when I was still a little wet behind the ears
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[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Are eating clean???
Yes, I wash all my food before eating them
Kidding. I simply avoid too much sat fats, and try my best to avoid trans fats like the plague. Aside from that, I take in enough protein and lots of carbs. I stay pretty lean for a long time, probably due to a mix of reasons like:
1. Fat mobilization - I take in no more than 5 -20g carbs before my morning workout (but I get in 20-30g of protein).
2. Better p-ratio - for two reasons: a.) I'm naturally lean, and b.) exercise is the best bet to changing the p-ratio to your favor, and with the high frequency of my workout, not to mention the quantity and frequency of the metabollic work I'm getting, it also doesn't hurt my p-ratio one bit
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I don't gain fat. As I posted earlier, the results of my bulking cycles were 1:1.71, muscle to fat, and that result is even skewed because I had a two week layoff where I had days where I ate very little (muscle loss) and had days whwre I clearly over ate chocolate and barely had protein in (muscle loss and fat gain, double whammy! ), after that two week layoff was the only time I could have my BF analyzed through BIA, and then compare it to what I was three cycles ago.
For now, I'm doing some cutting as I'm getting near to 15% BF, first time to cut since starting HST. But I'm still doing the same everyday routine. What better way to burn lots of calories and stimulate muscles than a big daily dose of deadlifts?!
