C1W2D3 - Incline BBB and Squat EMB. Spent the last couple days moving a bunch of furniture, so my body is all tired and cranky. Just did the work. Good thing this shit is light.
C1W2D4 - Dead BBB and Press EMB. Finding out I donāt really have enough days in the week to fit in everything I want to fit in, so I had to do my jumps as a part of this. Definitely not ideal conditions for that, but overall it was a good day of work. Everything still feels easy.
C1W3D1 - Squat BBB Incline EMB. Start of the last week of the first cycle, and now I feel my body is really in tune with it. I still cannot quite get over how much easier this is without the AMRAP. I will have to tweak the BBB and EMB sets to make them a bit heavier than what is called for (I am already doing that, but can keep pushing). Not really tired after any of this, and not really eating as much as I would normally do.
C1W3D2 - Press BBB and Dead EMB. The backoff sets are just not challenging enough (supposed to be 45 kilo), so I am just making them increasingly harder.
C1W3D3 - Incline BBB Squat EMB. Continues to be easy sailing towards the end of the first cycle. Still having trouble wrapping my mind around it. On the one hand, it feels too easy on the top end. On the other hand, it feels like solid overall work. Seems more sustainable in the long term, which I suppose is the point. Also slowly increasing the difficulty of the cardio sets.
Barbell Incline Bench Press
40 kg x 5 reps
55 kg x 5 reps
65 kg x 3 reps
80 kg x 5 reps
90 kg x 3 reps
100 kg x 1 reps
70 kg x 10 reps
70 kg x 10 reps
70 kg x 10 reps
70 kg x 10 reps
75 kg x 10 reps
Barbell Squat
20 kg x 5 reps
40 kg x 5 reps
60 kg x 5 reps
90 kg x 10 reps
90 kg x 10 reps
90 kg x 10 reps
90 kg x 10 reps
95 kg x 10 reps
Dips - Chest Version
5 reps
10 reps
15 reps
20 reps
25 reps
Not really finding enough time for conditioning, need to fix that.
Love the work going on here btw, a simple (not easy!) approach of a few big exercises hit hard, heavy (even if you consider the last couple of weeks light) and often. Itās a style I find myself gravitating to of lateā¦
EMB is just my made up nonsenseā¦Even More Boring. I call it that because I add the cardio sets for each exercise a second time later in the week. So I get a lot of total volume for each of the four movements.
C1W3D4 - Dead BBB and Press EMB. Feeling sleepy tired, but everything moved fine. Really did not feel that I wanted to push the press cardio sets today (due to benching yesterday), but then I told myself āthat is exactly why you should push themā.
Also felt too tired to do box jumps, but obviously my legs are getting a bit more pop from all the squat volume, so set a little PR.
Calves were sore from a couple days ago, so nearly wussed out and started a deload week. But one I got to it, I felt strong and ready, so started cycle two.
C2W1D1 - Squat BBB and Incline EMB. Added 5 kilo from the previous cycle. Everything feeling easy. Cardio sets at 100 are 15 kilo heavier than they need to be. Lower back doesnāt love them, but was otherwise not a problem.
Off cycle pulling day. Went very light and easy, because my elbows have been pretty bad lately. Didnāt really even plan to do any pull-ups, but the place was so damn busy I had to wait for shit to open up.
C2W1D2 - Press BBB and Dead EMB. No real problems with the pressingā¦70 for 5 seems to feel heavy no matter how strong I get, but not like it was a big problem. Continuing to make the cardio sets more challenging than they need to be (because that is where the money is, as I have always said).
Also made the dead EMB sets 10 kilo heavier than they needed to be, but to be honest I am probably going to have to scale that back for squats and deads. My lower back cannot seem to recover quickly enough.
I donāt know if I am stating the obvious for innocent readers, but āoff cycleā in this case would be ānot a 531 dayā. Donāt do drugs, kids.
As I have stated many times, I would probably hop on some kind of drugs if they were legal and/or more accessible here. Just imagine how insufferably awesome I would become.
Also, when I first read your comment, I thought you were focused on the word āpullingā and making some kind of jerking off joke.