Marc
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Agree with the guys replies here. Don’t fall into the trap thinking you should be feeling trashed after training. There a better ways to know you had an effective session like progressing lifts, improving form, taking an extra rep or two on your sets
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I think the guys have covered this perfectly here. Foot placement will also play a role in which muscle you want to bias the most. Often when people use a Cybex hack squat for instance the lower the feet to bias the quads you often see the heels raise up, which can lead to knee pain or injury. The pendulum can be a little more comfortable when wanting to bias the quads with feet placement. It does come down to preference, target muscle and also what your rotation is like. There’s no right or wrong, so lock into the exercise and make it work for you
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Trained legs today. Different set up to what I had been doing previously, with some more emphasis on unilateral work alongside bilateral, to bring up the slight imbalance where I had the knee injury. Before size can be put back on my legs, I need the imbalance to be removed and legs equal both side alongside increasing strength slowly.
Looking forward to seeing my legs more symmetrical and also the process, which I will talk more about over the coming weeks.
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Joint pain is something I’ve suffered from with my elbows previously. All the points raised from the team is what I have done. Treatment wise shockwave therapy regularly really helped me. I got mine through a physio who also gave me advice on rehab/mobility so be sure to ask for that specific advice for you.
Exercise selection along with more tempo work and wearing elbow sleeves massively helped. Tbjp supps have all been mentioned and I use these religiously without fail.
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Push session today and it was a decent workout. Trained around 3:30ish today and the gym was absolutely packed. Luckily I was able to get on all the kit I needed too without too much waiting around so that was good. Deffo need to re-think my training time though to avoid it being so busy…
My session today was;
Pec deck x2
Incline dumbbell press x3
Cybex eagle chest press x3
Decline hammer strength chest press x2
Single cuffed cable raise x3
Rope push down x2
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New set up looks fine here in relation to what you have been doing previously. In terms of cardio up to 6 sessions from 5 sessions, you might want to hold fire here and see what the diet adjustments do for now, as the increase in cardio sessions could then be the next adjustments.
As Phoebe mentioned, increased neat through steps could be beneficial here.
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Rest day today… usual morning fasted routine.
I had an in person check in with a first timer client and also went through a posing session which was really good. I always find in person check ins to be so much more valuable as it’s gives the clearest picture how a client is really looking.
Went to Costa today to get a new client set up with his plans oh and for the coffee too lol..
Watched the Man U game (I am a Man U fan) finally they have won a trophy!!
Getting supps packed up in a food bag for am and pm for the coming week as I find this saves times and helps me to be more organised.
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Last session of the week today it was legs. Decent workout, still keeping with higher volume. Really having to stay locked into the type of training with more working sets with lighter load as I’ve not trained in this way for a while.
Had my off plan meal this evening with my daughter we went out for pizza, some quality time with her is always good
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If you have already made a calorie adjustment reducing calories heading into prep I wouldn’t adjust expenditure steps or cardio just yet as you will see a response from being in a deficit. Don’t play all your tools at once, food adjustments, then the next addition could be cardio
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25 mins is great! Remember your heart rate doesn’t have to be super high here, so 25 mins is not going to impact recovery. You will see some nice health benefits here.
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Seeds are totally find to add to your diet. You said incorporate them into your diet so I’m guessing you are already getting healthy fats from different sources, like salmon, whole eggs etc so that’s absolutely no reasons why you can’t add these seeds in addition. It’s a good sources of fats, so by all means you can include these
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Today I went to Loughborough university medical centre for another appointment about mg knee (months down the line the NHS got back to me after my mri scan). Although I went private and got the results back, I thought I would take this appointment also just to see if there was a difference between what had been found.
It was all the same really between the two doctors findings. No damage to cartilage or ligaments and no signs of arthritis so that’s all good. I still feel things aren’t 100% since then, which is why I’m training lighter. But the dr said he would like to re scan again in April to see where things are at but in the meantime to carry on doing what I’ve been doing.
If anything some added reassurance, more than anything now it’s building back up strength and making sure leg size is equal, from where I had over compensated with my weight transferring the weight to my good leg.
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Rest day today, I had a sports massage which was long overdue after I had been away. Opted for a walk outside this morning for steps instead of on the treadmill just for a change.
Been thinking a lot lately about this off season and how I can become a better athlete, as I always think there’s room for improvement. No immediate decisions but things for me to work on so as and when implemented I will keep you all updated.
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I am with Sas here. Exploit every single variable you can to the whilst being natural to maximise progress. You said diet, training and sleep is on point and I’m not disputing that one bit. But can it be better? Likelihood it can and with that being the case don’t play the card now of taking your first cycle.
I would invest that money for a cycle into a coach. There are a number of quality coaches from the tbjp team here who can help you fulfil your natural potential (that’s me assuming you don’t have a coach). Or use this forum to make the best decisions moving forwards.
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Push session today. It Just didn’t click for me which was pretty frustrating. First run at the new session plan today, and second exercise in with reverse banded incline press just didn’t feel right. Still got a little shoulder niggle so changes have been made to my plan to help but I just couldn’t get into the new set up. Something I’ll be feeding back to cal with exercise selection / set up