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Yeah, it’s amazing honestly what a human body can look like, It’s fascinating, thank you all for the discussion 🙏

[Antonio]

@youngoscar but these 2 columns next to the spine, is that all erectors or more combination od lower traps and lower lats?

[Antonio]

No , 2 is fine

Thanks Jordan, btw since I joined the site, I have made the best gains ever, I literally think I put on more muscle in the last 4 months than in the previous 4 years of lifting (shame on me, but happy that’s changed).

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I don’t think the exercise itself isn’t good, that was just an example.
I feel my upper back better with the machine and a tbar. But I could do tbar and a cable row in session A, and upper back row in session B technically.

For erectors, I do SLDL and hypers on lower body days.

Question is am I missing on some gains if I have 2 variations compared to 3?

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Reading this, JP I’m wondering based on your experience how many muscle groups do you think an individual can tolerate at 4 sets simultaneously?

I’m currently experimenting with 4 sets lats, chest (I’m counting high incline as chest), upper back and side delts, I must admit (or I’m being pu***, that’s why I’m asking) I’m dragging the fatigue into lower next day

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Reaching out to you @rheagayle !

[Antonio]

Thank you all 🙏
I don’t want to compete unless I’m ready, I’ll definitely do one more growing and cleanup phase before revisiting the competition idea

Do you have any resources about posing, some videos on the site, or smth from YouTube?

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Noted, thanks for a quick one

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Got it, thanks guys

Is there anything we can do with elbow position, like having elbows tucked in, would that bias upper pecs more than having them flared out?

[Antonio]

But that is not overhead press, that’s high incline press – these 2 are different exercises, JP does both, high incline smith and plate loaded fully overhead (vertical) press

[Antonio]

@allisontestuhotmail-fr Thanks, I’ll bump it up by 200 kcals on TD days, when weight is stalling, how long would you usually wait before adjusting?

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@jrparker92 I think I’ll end up doing similar, food, sleep etc is consistent for me as well, and all other body parts are progressing, I’ll try next week and see if I regress again, I’ll lower the volume to similar to yours if that happens

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@jrparker92 Thanks for sharing your experience, I’m glad it’s progressing for you now 👌

How exactly do you count set for chest, I also do one direct set for chest, if we count close grip presses for triceps and overhead for delts.

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@youngoscar Everything from the recovery standpoint is fine, all other lifts, pulls and legs are progressing well, even related things like lateral delts and chest, only front delts and triceps are regressing

@Maddy-Lulu-Belle-Daniel I thought I was micro loading by adding 0.5k kg 😅 would you recommend buying some 125 and 250 g plates?
@Hilly Most of my compounds are 5-8, I do higher reps up to 15 on other lifts, I’m trying to micro load every week, hence the jumps

@Michaela thanks a lot, that’s what I was thinking about as well, I’ll keep the same load next time and see how it goes – even though I was able to constantly keep adding 0.25 and .5 kg to those lifts for the last 4+ months, I changed to FB recently so I thought it might be some issue with my programming

Related to the initial message, since my weight has been stalling for the last 3 weeks, would you bump calorie intake, if so, how much, would 50 kcals be enough? Note that I gained 3kg in the last 3 months, but nothing really in the last 3 weeks

[Antonio]

You gave yourself the answer here:

“Here are two scenarios I’ve experienced:1) When I do 3 sets of pressing exercises, I progress on all sets the next time I perform those exercises.2) When I do 5 sets of pressing exercises, I still progress at the same rate on all sets during the next session.”

If you are recovered the next workout keep going. I can’t imagine this to happen, but if it does for you 5 sets maybe better than 3. So keep doing it until it is too much.

As in FB eod I could recover 3 sets of push. But not more. Sometimes less depending on circumstances.

On Lifts like deadlift I ca progress with just one hard set. You need to figure it out by yourself.[/quote]

Thanks Allison and thanks B, appreciate you all 🙂