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Originally Posted by AS
You may be overthinking things a little.
I was looking back at your upper body stuff, I don't see you maxing out much....what do you mean exactly? Do you mean going to failure? Or just lifting heavy?
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I mean I was doing a forced rep too often on my ealier sets.
Quote:
Originally Posted by AS
You may be overthinking things a little.
I was looking back at your upper body stuff, I don't see you maxing out much....what do you mean exactly? Do you mean going to failure? Or just lifting heavy?
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hey man thanks for checking it out
I really dig down deep to get the last couple reps. Even though they don't always require a spotter, they are still more akin to "forced reps" in comparison to the amount of effort usually exerted when requiring a spot. So essentially, I'm doing forced reps too often, or at the wrong times, and mostly too early. I'd have to severely back off in weight if I expected to get more than 2 or 3 sets. Also, I was doing couples and triples a lot.
I did lower body workout a c
Douple days ago, but I had hurt my upper right trapezius pretty bad about 4 days ago, and actually could't move out of bed for about 36 hours, except a couple times when I had to stabilize and hold up my head with both hands just to walk to the kitchen. I've always had some neck pains, used to crack my neck, and also felt a small over use injury about a month ago, which was somewhat relived by doing single arm rows, just for the record.
Lower body, since it hurt too much to stabilize my neck during squats, i only did a few sets, and then switched to single leg squats, hard. I felt like a made great improvement. I also, since i cant do a natural glute ham raise, did the single leg ham curl machine, in the kneeling position, and felt i had an imbalance with my right leg being 20 pounds stronger, so I did a few sets, and was very sore the next day.
Today, I did upperbody
A bench press, 5X5 185, 185, 185, 205, 200 (form is improving, and didnt over tax my cns, by exploding too hard too early, or by doing any excess forced reps)
B1 Incline dumbells- 3 X 8 65 ALT w
B2 Horiz pullups feet up, 3X8 25
C1 Pronated prone trap raise 3X10
C2 Single arm rows 2X8
threw in a set of pullups, minimal core, a few zottman curls with 35 dumbells and some very good shoulder and chest stretching
only half a post shake, main fault is still nutrition, main improvement, peaking less often, and increasing the need for stability