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haha I read it then came to reply and it wasn’t there

I think in honesty my food doesn’t ever get THAT low..not to the point it has needed to in the past…ie 700 kcals and 3 hours cardio per day…in that state your body and mind is panicking a little
I eat a lot of veg/salad all year round too and this is unchanged in prep, im always hydrated…so those things are great for satiety anyway
health supps are on point, so those bases are covered….my body doesn’t have a reason to be struggling so to speak

plus, I really enjoy it….and yeh, ive been doing it a while so I just don’t think about it – also past issues have defo altered my relationship with food…so NO I don’t think my view on food is ‘healthy’ so to speak…and I think that phase kinda knocked something from me mentally I guess

Hi Corinne, im a little curious about this comment hope you don’t mind me asking you to elaborate abit further by what you meant about about that phase knocking something from you mentally? do you mean that like that period of intense restriction kind of changed your relationship with food? (for better or for worse?)

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If you’re giving everything to those primary movements, then you’re likely going to be feeling a little wiped out. That’s why they’re usually placed near the beginning of a workout so we can load them heavy while we’re fresh. That’s not to say you shouldn’t still be able to get through the rest of the session though and still progress. How long are you spending warming up and how many working sets are you going for? You may be fatiguing yourself too much beforehand and/or during the sets which is preventing you being able to continue effectively.

with the squat I do spend quite abit of time warming up actually and all in all it takes me around 20 mins to complete the warm up and working sete. Im still unsure as to the best way to warm up with them- and I aim for 3 working sets of 10,8,15 reps[/quote]

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Maybe reduce your working sets to one of 8-10 reps and one back off of 12-15. Also make sure your warm up sets are literally just priming you ready for your top set and not fatiguing you too much, so as the weight increases, do less reps, only doing one or 2 before you go for your first working set.

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I tend to do around 3 warm up sets and I do decrease the reps when I go heavier. how would you structure your warm up for a squat if you don’t mind me asking?

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If you’re giving everything to those primary movements, then you’re likely going to be feeling a little wiped out. That’s why they’re usually placed near the beginning of a workout so we can load them heavy while we’re fresh. That’s not to say you shouldn’t still be able to get through the rest of the session though and still progress. How long are you spending warming up and how many working sets are you going for? You may be fatiguing yourself too much beforehand and/or during the sets which is preventing you being able to continue effectively.

with the squat I do spend quite abit of time warming up actually and all in all it takes me around 20 mins to complete the warm up and working sete. Im still unsure as to the best way to warm up with them- and I aim for 3 working sets of 10,8,15 reps[/quote]

Then that explains why you feeling wiped out. That movement is the priority of your session. So damn right you should be feeling that way . Mostly after the last one of 15 reps. I have done that set up before but worse 6-8,10-15,20-30 and after the last set it literally took me 10 minutes to recover before I did the next movement. So don’t overthink it. So long as you giving 100% to the other movements too, max load,max effort & all that …it’s all that matters. ????

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thank you =)

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If you’re giving everything to those primary movements, then you’re likely going to be feeling a little wiped out. That’s why they’re usually placed near the beginning of a workout so we can load them heavy while we’re fresh. That’s not to say you shouldn’t still be able to get through the rest of the session though and still progress. How long are you spending warming up and how many working sets are you going for? You may be fatiguing yourself too much beforehand and/or during the sets which is preventing you being able to continue effectively.

with the squat I do spend quite abit of time warming up actually and all in all it takes me around 20 mins to complete the warm up and working sete. Im still unsure as to the best way to warm up with them- and I aim for 3 working sets of 10,8,15 reps

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So squat is your primary movement? If so everything else is secondary…so you should be rightly feeling that way after squatting with max effort & max intensity.
How many sets are you doing of squats ?

Hey thanks for replying – Im currently doing 3 sets of reps of 10,8,15