[Rich Ellis]

Hi mate

By “deload”, do you mean a down set or a back off set?

What’s your rep scheme?

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Push day today and unfortunately the extra rest day didn’t do its job. I was very hampered today which is incredibly frustrating but the story of how pressing is for me

New very good physio in the area so I’m going to get some time with him. It might be that I have to accept push won’t really be training in the main, but more a “try to get mended” whilst working hard on pull, legs and maybe separate arms

[Rich Ellis]

As above, definitely get it looked at mate. Don’t be a hero and risk it manifesting into something more serious than it is

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Took another rest day today. My shoulder was feeling rubbish from the moment I woke up and itvwas supposed to be push day.

It’s feeling fine now so got to get after it tomorrow

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Rest day today folks. Last meal now and then head down ready for the week

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Do you have the ability to limit the range of the machines? With the use of stoppers? This way you won’t have the fear of getting pinned in the hole and can work the depth down as your confidence grows

That or maybe start back on these pieces with some higher rep work just so that the loads are not so intimidating

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Just echoing the above.

Probably a good idea to consume adequate CHO in time to optimise next workout

Whilst this doesn’t mean PWO CHO is vital, it would seem a smart place to put them

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Legs it was and after last time our being a total disaster, I was happy with today.

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Sorry, I’m just having a difficult time on understanding this kind of training. I’m gonna write out what I believe I know from your explanation, and you can correct me on the steps please.

So your first set is gonna be a rest pause of 12 reps.

Now when you say 2 failing points do you mean your only allowed to take 2 breaks of 20secs to reach 12 reps?

Or
Do 12 reps, take 20sec break and another 12 reps?

And for the loaded rounds these are sets of 5 reps only with 12 breaths/20sec…. 2 part means 2x this / 3 part means 3x this .

Is the RP set 1 and LR set 2? Or do you RP and right away load the weight and go into LR?

Alberto, hi.

Ok, so the rest pause set you aim for 12 reps. This is your first fail point. You then take a 20 sec break, you don’t adjust the weight, you then do maximum reps again (probably 7-8 reps), that is your second fail point. Both of these efforts are to 0 reps in reserve

You then take a full break. 3mins +. You work to 5 reps with a weight you could do 7 reps with (2 reps in reserve). You then take a 20 second break. You then adjust the weight and work to 5 reps with a weight you could do 6 reps with (1 rep in reserve).

As the weeks progress, provided you have the recovery capacity, you will increase volume – first by adding a third fail point to the rest pause set. Then over the next few weeks adding a third and fourth part to the loaded round.

I hope that helps

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Pull day today and it was a better day but not as smooth as I would have liked.

Will do some consulting with the boss man about whether I’ve been over ambitious with the number of cluster sets and the impact that’s having.

Any thoughts welcome

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Cool! Following, we share the same love for effective reps and time saving methods.

Ah nice! Feedback most welcome mate

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Barbell rows……u obviously do them as I’ve seen them on ur Instagram….but at what point do u them, exercise order wise and would u do them with rdls in same session if possible?

Hi mate, I like bb rows, but don’t do them in this set up

Whether I put them in with RDL would very much depend on the rest of my set up mate

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I’m a blank notebook too – you can then use your own format

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For me you do what you need to do to be in the best state of readiness (physically and psychologically) for your work set

I would always rather do more sets with less reps. With adequate recovery, this is typically a strong strategy

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Push day today. I enjoyed it but I’m still not recovering well.

I’ll push out another week and then I’m away with work where I was going to train but will take a few days off as rest

That should reset me and let me get back to moving some numbers