I use Stronglifts madcow. Pretty much progress 2.5kg to 5kg each week.
Mon: Squat, OHP, lat pulldowns.
Tue: Bench, bent rows, bicep curls, tri pushdown
wed: DL
Thu: Mon.
Fri: Tue.
Sat/sun: nothing.
You seem to be training back every single day (5 days), and everything else twice a week.
Fair point.
What would you take out to reduce back volume?
That's massive progress, how do you keep up??
So even looking at the lower spectrum, assuming only 2.5kg, if you started benching 70kg, you should be hitting 200kg bench in 12 month, if you use 5kg as a guide you bench should be surpassing 300kg, I don't believe those numbers or even a ¼ of those numbers.
Guess you do it till you can't anymore then move onto something else. I used starting strength first, then when I couldn't keep adding weight every session I went onto this adding 2.5 - 5kg each week. I'm starting to stall now so maybe time to move onto something else.
I never really looked into these routines, what is their solution to once you start stalling i progress??
- Once you're past the newbie stage, gains come slower. The natural assumption is that you're doing something wrong.
- Stop lying to yourself. No magic program is going to solve your work ethic problem.
- Even if you find the "perfect" program, it won't work unless you do. Even not-so-good training programs work if you hit them hard.
- There's a difference between motivation and discipline.Motivation is the desire to do a task, while discipline is the ability to get yourself to do a task when you don't feel like doing it.
- Build your discipline muscle.Go to the gym even if you don't feel like it. A "bad" workout is better than a skipped workout, and nutting up will feel good.
From memory you try same weight the week after and if you fail drop back 10% and go again.
Not that I followed this advice. I just took a deload week and will try same weight I stalled at last week.
If I keep stalling I'll go onto 5/3/1 or something. Mind you I'm trying to drop fat so I guess I can only going so far with it.
Go to the gym even if you don't feel like it. A "bad" workout is better than a skipped workout, and nutting up will feel good.
That's interesting Goose and I understand where your coming from. But I remember reading in one of the Joe Weider mags Mike Christian saying he would prefer to skip the day's workout if he thought it was going to be a bad one.
Opinions are like arseholes everyone has one. I tend to believe a bad workout is better than no workout at all.
Maybe go for a walk. Hard to have a "bad" walk. At least you are still moving your lazy ass.
That's interesting Goose and I understand where your coming from. But I remember reading in one of the Joe Weider mags Mike Christian saying he would prefer to skip the day's workout if he thought it was going to be a bad one.
That's interesting Goose and I understand where your coming from. But I remember reading in one of the Joe Weider mags Mike Christian saying he would prefer to skip the day's workout if he thought it was going to be a bad one.
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