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Push done today! Feeling a few little niggles popping up at the moment, so spent a little longer warming up before big sets , which ended up paying off 🙂 some good numbers set today which I’m super happy with. Tomorrow is a mega busy day with a massage in the morning, check ins, check ins, then finally going to pick up my little Murphy! Hes a beautiful black lab pup and I cannot wait to bring him home! Going to finally have a step buddy when it comes to prep! So tomorrow is going to be a good day!
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Hi Dimitris!
What I would recommend doing here is actually spreading your water out a little more during the day – instead of chugging 1 litre every time you go to drink (which can make you feel a little uncomfortable at points especially if food is high) just spread it out evenly through the day – the only time I would always recommend around 1 litre of water is upon waking which you’re already doing. For example if you do 500ml pre training / 500ml intra / 500ml post , thats already 1.5 litres in during that training window and it’s not leaving you feeling uncomfortable. I don’t personally track any water added to things , I only track what I drink directly, I think trying to track anything added can just become tedious, and its another example of paralysis by analysis – I hope this helps!
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Another day doing the do!! Pull today went well, the vibes at the shed were veryyy good as per usual! Can’t believe this year is almost finished, it seems to have flown by! Honestly I am very excited to get 2025 going and get back on stage! Tomorrow is push and a couple of 1-1s with clients and that that! Should be a solid start to the week!
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Legs done today! Numbers moved well, good activation and good focus! Can already feel the DOMS setting in, so tomorrow is going to be fun!
Push in the morning then it’s into another week!
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Hey Alessio!
In all honesty if the amount of filler sets that you’re using now isn’t hindering your working sets then I would just warm up as you’ve been doing! The closer I get to my working weight the less reps I do , for example, my warm ups for the Atlantis incline go like this
1 plate each side – 8 reps
2 plates each side – 6 reps
3 plates each side – 4 reps
4 plates each side – 2 / 3 reps ( close to working )
4.5 plates – start working set here.However if I feel I do want to add another , I will. You don’t want to go overboard but you do want to ensure you’re warm enough and confident enough to go into your working weight . I hope this helps!
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Good evening everyone! hope you’ve all had a Good Friday!
Busy day! Finally gave my flat key back which is a huge weight lifted off my shoulders and can fully immerse myself in the new house! So it’s been a good day in that regards! Upper session was good this morning, shoulders a little sticky so just took a little longer to warm up, but other then that was a steady session! Got legs early with my partner then a chilled day doing some client calls etc!
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Another day of Christmas festivities! Travelling and spending the day with my partners family , home now and ready to return back to my normal routine aha! Upper tomorrow morning and I’m buzzing for it! Then a few hours in the warehouse , going to be a good day indeed!
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Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful day ! Today has been a chilled day for me to be honest! My rest days all fall on a Wednesday anyway , so spent the day with the family and enjoying a Christmas dinner , all my other meals went in as always . Tomorrow I’ll be taking another rest day as it’s another day with family then back to usual antics training wise post Boxing Day!
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Agree with Phoebe here!! Veggie mite pro + digest pharma pro + glutamine should help, but it might also be worth taking a look at overall diet as there might be something else going on there causing digestive distress.
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Happy Christmas Eve everyone! I hope you’ve all had a brilliant day!
Started today off with a very good posterior session – hitting some good numbers across the board and feeling out some new movements which went well! As I mentioned previously we’ve popped in a leg press to my posterior session and it felt brilliant today , so I’m excited to give these a good run! The remainder of the day was spent doing some work and travelling to the family for Christmas – which is always lovely! Onto the pigs in blankets classic tomorrow!! Have a wonderful Christmas everyone!!
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I couldn’t agree more with the above comments , but as Jordan said it’s not something you HAVE to do. Its something I’ve always done due to the reasons above but if its something that doesn’t work for you then don’t feel you have to implement it 🙂
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Early push session done today along with a good massage! Push session was good, with numbers improving across the board which I’m super happy about! Then spent the afternoon working through clients and finishing off a few little Christmas bits and bobs! Posterior tomorrow morning before travelling down to my dads for xmas!
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Hey B! Hope you’re good!
If pressing causes too much aggravation I would focus a large percentage of shoulder work on isolation movements like laterals etc for the time being – however I would also recommend getting regular treatment on the area (apologies if you do this already), have you seen a physio for this issue before? Furthermore, when you mention an issue with stability in standing presses, it might be worth adding in some shoulder stability work (rotator cuff focus, serratus anterior work etc) alongside some core work aswell, if we can’t base ourselves well when doing exercises, we’re just opening ourselves up to further injury, much like if you have an instability within that shoulder joint, how can we progress shoulder movements if that shoulder is unstable. I hope that makes sense!
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Good morning all and a happy Sunday!
So woke up feeling pretty beaten up so decided to take my usual sunday rest day , I did mention about going In for push today dependant on how I feel, but decided against it and to rest and just go in for my usual push tomorrow. Already been up and doing work this morning then going to head over to the flat for cleaning.
2025 has been set in place now too which is super exciting – shows are as follows;
NY pro
Toronto
Spain
Prep begins on the 27th of Jan and I honestly cannot wait, this offseason has been one of the most productive I’ve had and I couldn’t be more ready to hit prep hard. Whatever happens happens next season and I know I’ve done all I could have this offseason to ensure the appropriate improvements have been made . I also know the environment in which I’m in this year is night and day better than what it has been previously. Things are going to be really very good next year and I can’t wait to get things going!
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Today was another good day in the bag! Check in with Tom today, happy with how we’re moving, just continue on as we are, both myself and Tom are happy with where we are at currently, especially with prep around the corner.
Legs completed this morning, and it went very well! All movements progressed and some really good connection points too – which makes me very happy 🙂
Tomorrow is supposed to be a rest day but I’m likely going to go in to ensure I get the block of training done that I need to prior to Christmas, so push will be done tomorrow most likely 🙂 which is always a good session! So we shall see!