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I don’t feel it in my back at the time but the accumulative fatigue builds up. It may be the case you’re hamstrings are strong but when theres 200 kg’s on the bar the back will get involved. Give it a go though. If it works great. If i doesn’t then drop the deads on leg day if you’re hamstrings are a strong point. Just do curls, GHRs and hamstring focused hypers.

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I could never get away with doing both dead lift variations on back day (floor, rack and deficit). While also doing variations for Hamstrings (DB RDL, Barbell RDLs and machine RDLs). My lower back just wouldn’t recover and it limited progression on my back lifts.

Now i concentrate only on the hamstring dead lift variations, and on pull day i focus on barbell rows, t-bar rows and seated cable rows as these load the lower back to a lesser degree.

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Agree completely.

This push i’m really focusing on making very small load adjustments and keeping form tight.
I did hacks with 110kg a side for 9 and they felt good. Tried to go up to 115kg a side and although i still got 8 reps they felt poor. Almost like i could have had a breather for a minute and got back on and done another 6 or 7 with the same weight. Where as previous rotation my legs were toasted, and if i tried to go again i’d probably have got a rep if that. So the following rotation i dropped back down to 111.25 kgs a side and got 10 but they were brutal as i was way more in control. I could have probably carried on with the poor form for weeks until i stalled. But doubt it would do much to stimulate max hypertrophy, it would have just been a case of progressing the lift. I guess thats the down fall with log booking. I would set myself a target of say a 5 plate safety squat by the end of the year, and i’d really push to achieve it by adding weight in big jumps which led to form starting to slip.

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Yeah we’ll never know what could have been as so much of this sport is genetic and individual. If Ronnie had trained like B Pak would he have been as good? If Dorian had trained like Jay would he have been? They’d still have been freaks for sure.

Do you think that it got to a point where you’d been heavy training and chasing progression for so long, that its the new type of stimulus that’s provided additional growth? Kind of like you tapped out the max muscle you were going to get from loading, and so the new style of training is now working the muscle from a new angle ie metabolic stress? Where as a lot of guys who go in and lift light with perfect form will max out the metabolic stress aspect, but never push the loading hard enough.

Do you think that a season could be made up of both kinds of training to get a kind of best of both worlds? As an example out of a comp you’d spend 12-16 weeks trying to progress lifts with “good” form while pushing up, tidy up a bit, then spend 12-16 weeks using “perfect” form, but try and get the weight (or more) to the level you did the first push kind of thing?

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Hi Jordan, I saw somewhere (might have been insta) that you said you wished you were training like you are now years ago, and the new back video you said that the heavy rows were a bit of a waste.

But you have to admit that concentrating on getting really f***in’ strong has paid dividends. 9 plate T-bars, 200kg+ bent over rows, 8 plate a side hacks, have gotten you to be one of the biggest (height to body weight ratio) body builders out there. You could argue that things like leg curls may have been more optimal if done with better form, but the bang for the buck movements getting really strong with “good” form has worked.

Do you feel that if you had switched to this training style 2-3 years ago that you would be on stage at 260 plus now? 😉

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Get a new coach…….

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I really feel that DB leg curls hit the adductors, as do paused squats.

For Abductors try the girly side leg raise on the cable machine. I’ve done this in the past and it actually works pretty well.

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I’d remove the second chest compound on Push. You can do a 3rd set if you need more volume but it shouldnt be needed.

I’d also drop the lunges and just do a squat, leg press and leg extension. I’d also add another set of hamstrings. GHR, single leg curl or hamstring hypers would be good.

Back day id drop the last row movement for shrugs. Also change the single arm row for something to target mid-back/rhomboids/lower traps etc.

If you do 5 days a week then PPL UL is a good split.

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Yeah i hear that a bit about it being worth while, but then another guy i know said his bollock swelled to the size of an apple. haha

A day off training i could live with. A bit of pain doesn’t bother me but 4-5 weeks without a shag might be somewhat frustrating.

Are you in the UK? Did you get it done via the GP, or go privately?

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Nothing negative happening in your private life to warrant the increase in aggression?
If you’ve used Deca with no problems then i cant imagine NPP will be causing it. Its the same drug.
Its probably the combination of all the drugs. Drop the NPP if you dont feel its benefiting the cycle. But if its all out mass i’d rather keep NPP in and drop the tren and tbol.

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I’d just drop to a cruise for about 8 weeks, then blast again when you want to crank it back up.

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NPP is a feel good drug for me.
Tbol however makes me very moody, and feeling pretty lousy.
Have you run two 19-nors together before? Have you used Deca with no problems?
I’ve heard some people who dont get on well with Tren that adding in a low dose of Caber helps. Could be worth a try.

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14 weeks is a good amount of time pushing up.

Its probably time to back off the calories and tidy up a bit. Aim to get 10-15 lbs off over 6 weeks and then slowly start to push up again. So if you top out at 190, start reducing calories by 75g of carbs (or about 300 calories) a week until you’re losing a couple of pounds a week. When you get down to 172-175 ish then start to push up again. Try and push beyond the 190 but in slightly better shape then the time before. You might get up to 195-200 lbs by the end of the next 14 weeks.

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If you plan on trying end of next year then cruise and do the show in May then power PCT and stay off until the Mrs passes the 12 week mark. Then go back on. Sperm takes 90-100 days to mature (if i remember), so if technically you are firing blanks in May, then after PCT is complete you should have at least some capable swimmers by December.

I would 100% add in HCG though as it does make recovery much easier. Blast it to get the balls working, then 500iu e5d.

I also used 5mg of folic acid and 60mg of zinc a day when stopping AAS to help conceive. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11872201

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I do this all the time where it allows. I wouldn’t make it really unbalanced but if i was leg pressing 410kg say i’d do 10 plates both sides, then just a 10kg plate on one side.
Smith Machine i’d balance as i think this isnt solid enough not to and would feel weird.
Leg press, dip machine, v-squat, hack squat etc all good though! I do it a lot when warming up. 20kg one side and do some reps, 20kg the other, do some reps, 20kg the other etc. Save taking on and off 10 kg plates constantly.