[Rich Ellis]

Hi mate

Presumably you knew this was a preferred set up with your coach before hiring them?

What was the rationale they gave for the lower grammes per pound bodyweight?

[Rich Ellis]

Completely agree with Jord.

[Rich Ellis]

Get after it mate. Patience, consistency, relentlessness 🙌🏻

[Rich Ellis]

Legs done.

One of those days where I was feeling “off” all morning, but that’s one of the things I value most about tracking. Task set, do it or don’t!

Ended up having a really good session, very pleased with how everything progressed, very pleased with how my knees behaved, so all good news.

Just had my penultimate meal, one left before bed then hopefully a better sleep thn last night!

[Rich Ellis]

All of the above, plus JM press.

[Rich Ellis]

It’s just another variation . And once that’s maxed out they move onto a diff variation

I already maxed out almost every machine at the gym I go to, so do u think I should start doing high reps?[/quote]
Can you set up a smith machine with a couple of DC blocks?

[Rich Ellis]

Rest day today, and very well needed after a strong few days of training.

Been a long day, only just sat down, glad of the rest and looking forward to my last meal tonight.

Long sleep on the cards and a leg session tomorrow

[Rich Ellis]

How are you feeling now mate? Has this now gone and you’re back to it?

[Rich Ellis]

Really happy with this evening’s pull session. Starting to get some meaningful strength back which makes me happy.

Rest day tomorrow which will be well needed, then back to legs on Saturday.

Sorted food prep for tomorrow, about to have my last meal and then sleep time

[Rich Ellis]

Hi Matt,

Why don’t you run through the upper/lower you’ve put together and see how that works with a 75min window?

If you’re super disciplined about focussing only on your work in there, you might find you can make the timings work.

Keep us posted mate, if it needs amendments/prioritisation, we can look at that with you.

[Rich Ellis]

Hi mate

Baby rice or rice flour are both options if readily available?

[Rich Ellis]

Hi Matt,

Firstly, welcome to the community.

It’s good you’ve put some consideration to what might benefit you most, but ultimately, if life doesn’t allow the time for a FB split, it’s not the right choice for you.

Fortunately there are lots of good splits that can work with individual circumstances. High levels of accuracy, effort, and consistency will see most splits yield good results.

I think U/L is the sensible step on from full body, I would just be uncertain about whether an hour is long enough to execute well.

I don’t know many people that run an upper/lower and come in under the one and three quarter to two hour mark.

That’s not saying it can’t be done, but if you’re resting well and preparing well, time soon ticks on.

I’d be loathed to compromise session quality for clock watching, if you can’t stretch your workouts, I’d probably be tempted to move to a PPL.

With that said, by all means try your set up and see how it works for you time wise, as I said though, I’d really try to protect the quality of what happens in the time you give yourself to train, so if it turns into a cardio session to fall into time, I’d re-think.

Hope that’s a helpful start Matt. Let us know how you get on.

[Rich Ellis]

Push session this evening. Wasn’t my best in truth, joints felt a little bit off today. Not a drama, but not as “free” feeling as recent sessions have been.

One meal left tonight and then pull session tomorrow evening which I’m hoping is now it’s final set up

[Rich Ellis]

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[Rich Ellis]

Hi Joe,

You’ve given us no context about yourself, so it isn’t possible to comment on what’s “needed”.