Tor-Andre Kongelf
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As somone who hardly does shoulder press movements I would still say you should do compound pressing on shoulders and it would be enough.
For brosplits where you do 3-4 chest movements that also work your shoulders, only doing laterals with no pressing makes sense imo.
However when you do full body workouts you really want to exploit how compound movements for chest, shoulders and triceps work together.
Just my humble opinion. Not an athlete here. Take it as you wish. ☺️
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Around 9.4753% 😊
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Nice to see you doing better. I cant imagine how frustrating it has to be getting ill when going to Spain.
Do you do anything different as you get well or do you go straight at it like nothing happened?
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I count everything as well. However reading that Kuba ignores macros entirely I would like to try that. Just count grams of meat, grams of rice/potatoes and grams of veggies.
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Hey Rich. You mentioned couple of leg days ago your knees were behaving nicely. Had any problems with them on leg days? And if so, how did you work around it?
Currently having some pain in left knee on leg days so curious about how you did things. 🙂
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Hi mate,
I think this is a really tough question to answer as essentially we can’t know.
You have noted that you feel well recovered, and that you are progressing your lifts consistently – you’re a smart lad, you understand the systems, and you know that these are good reasons to continue with what you are doing.
I’d be interested to understand how you would set your four days up?
I think sometimes when we see people improve from adding a rest day, it is because they aren’t sufficiently recovering on a five or six day run.
This is quite often (from what I’ve seen) when people get stronger over time yet don’t note the impact this has.
I think (if we heard the same anecdote) it was on RBP and they were referencing Luke’s progress dropping from 6 to 4 days. In that instance, I’m not surprised in the slightest as Luke was brutally strong, and running at that kind of output six days is unlikely to be recoverable.
I’m not sure if I’m being helpful, or just saying stuff you already know, but it’s interesting to talk it out.
Thanks Rich. My question was probably asked in a poor manner which certainly doesn’t make it easier to answer. But you seem to hit home with me because I feel somewhat enlightened by your reply.
As you have understood from my poorly phrased question I was thinking to adjust to the following:
Day 1 – Legs
Day 2 – Chest/Shoulders
Day 3 – Off
Day 4 – Back
Day 5 – Off
Day 6 – Arms
Day 7 – Off
And yes you are right. It was about Luke did a huge leap in his development when going from 6 to 4 days a week. I was very intrigued by this concept and wondering if it was something for me as well.
Yes you are always helpful Rich. Thank you. I do understand it relates to the strength and how heavy loads requires more recovery. 🙂
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Perhaps a silly question but I seem to have no clue @Nathanstyles @kuba1000@hotmail.co.uk but I am interested in daily pinning my self. Can I do daily with an insulin syringe even subq? I assume the 5mm needle on an insulin syringe is too short for IM injections. 😊
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Volum is not only amount of sets. Volum actually has to been seen as the amount of “effective” reps. That is, the last 3 reps of a set that actually provides stimulus.
So you can either add more sets to increase effective reps (because one extra set is more effective reps) or add intensifiers like drop sets, rest pause sets, partial reps or other means to add more effective reps to a workout.
Science says that there is dose response relationship between growth and volume so if everything else is on point an increase in volume in some way should lead to more growth.
I am not sure a change in split helps unless you use it as a tool to add more volume.
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Jordan has just set up a new free Education series on You Tube. Episode 2 talks in depth about Volume, Frequency and Intensity. It might be worth having a watch of that.
Ye I allready watched it several times before making this thread. It was a very good video. He doesnt talk specifically about 4 days training compared to 5 so thats what I wanted to ask here. 😊[/quote]
The only way you’ll find out how much frequency works for you is to try it and see. If you get more progress and feel more recovered dropping to 4, then great, but what you’re doing right now seems to be working, so I’d be hesitant to change anything just yet.[/quote]
Thanks Clare. I have been trying and thinking about this on my own and can’t seem to make up my mind what is best. 🙂 -
As you say inbalances are normal and usually nothing to worry about. If however you want to improve training legs uni laterally seems to be the thing to do. It seems like you are doing this allready so just continue and see if it helps. 😊
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Jordan has just set up a new free Education series on You Tube. Episode 2 talks in depth about Volume, Frequency and Intensity. It might be worth having a watch of that.
Ye I allready watched it several times before making this thread. It was a very good video. He doesnt talk specifically about 4 days training compared to 5 so thats what I wanted to ask here. 😊
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I am unsure what kind of answer you are looking for here as your frequency is already quite low seeing that you train each body part 1x every 7 days. It also sounds like your recovery and progression are doing good, so I think you answered your own question.
Every 6 days. Not 7. My question is really if I should do 4 days a week instead 5 since some people say they grow more from the extra rest. So I wonder if more rest is always better really. Though I assume 3 days a week would make frequency too low.
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I just looked it up!! Thank you much for the tip.. so cheap and insane macros
Cool. Hope you like it. Or else use a lot of spices and low calorie ketchup. 😊
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O didnt meantion carbs as they are dirt cheap.
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I am not sure you have this fish where you live but I buy pollock and that is my main source of protein. It has the same macros as cod however price per kg is almost half. Even more that of salmon.
In Norway 400 grams of pollock is 3 Euros. 400 grams of cod is 5 Euros. 400 grams of chicken is the same as cod. Roughly speaking.