The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Stick to the program.

 

I was gonna tell him the same thing but figured @Travish325 would yell at him

 

I second this.

@weldertaco you complain you are tired all the time but constantly post you are pushing PRs and trying to give 110% everyday at the gym.
The only thing this does is beat the shit out of your body, increases risk of injury, and hinders your progress.

The majority of your training should not be that high intensity. That could be a factor in why you feel so fatigued.

 

It hasn’t been high intensity in a while tbh. I don’t know what any of my current PR’s would be as I haven’t tried in probably 3 months now.

 

Okay dad.

 

You’re paying good money to have a well thought out training plan provided for you. It doesn’t make any sense to me why you would deviate from the plan.

 

Bruh that ain’t no lie. I don’t get how people can pay for a personal trainer or a someone to plan their diet for em and don’t follow that shit. Like wasting your own money lol. My girl
And friend have tried getting me to sway some days and I’m like nope nope nope.

 

This leads me to a question for your competitive power lifters.

I follow the 80/20 rule for running. No more than 20% of my weekly training is high intensity. High intensity being defined as a HR zone or power zone based on my max HR.
High intensity also includes lifting, which is more of overall effort measured and not HR measured.
I have to be very careful in ensuring the overwhelming majority of my runs are super easy and low HR, otherwise I risk doing too much and I’m over trained.

My largest experience with power lifting is with Wendlers programs. He obviously preaches efficiency. Go into the gym knowing what you need to accomplish, get it done, get the fuck out. If you spend too much time fucking around you are wasting energy and focus.
He also slashes your 1RM by 10% day one to compensate for ego. So obviously keeping the intensity controlled throughout training is still valued in strength sports. So this leads me to believe the answer to my question is yes.

So my question is, do you guys spend any real time in training on your 1RM?
Or is that effort exclusively saved for comp day?

I spend very, very little time at race pace in training. If I want to run an ultra at 10:30 pace I rarely train that pace on that trail.
Race day is the first time I run X pace at Y distance.
I may do 1km hill sprints at 7:00 or run a 30km at a 13:00.
Race day I have to have faith in my training I can reach my goal. But Race day is the only day that effort comes out.

Is it the same for you? When you step on the stage is part of that comp having faith that your training has prepared you to pull a number you’ve never pulled?

 

Same boat here. I want to go try big PRs but I'm following the plan. I have made far more progress this way than what I use to be doing of trying to max out every time.

Trust the cycle....


Or don't, I ain't paying your bill lmao

 

Usually sub-maximal efforts at sub-maximal weights.

Occasionally maximal effort with sub-maximal weights.

Rarely maximal effort with maximum weights (comp day or at the beginning of a cycle to determine what to base % off of)

 

Hashtag trust the process

 

Thats what I thought. Despite the sport comp day efforts are mostly comp day efforts.

 

I failed 555lbs this morning on dead’s at 95% training max. Got up to my knees and then it slipped out my right hand. Some days you got it and others ya don’t. Might start throwing grip training into the mix.

Deload week coming up next week for a much needed break.

 

Lmao it just sucks when you’re feeling strong and wanna see what you got

 

2x 10 snatch grip DL’s.

 

Cute hat

 

Typically a program will be designed for you to peak, either for a meet, or just because you want to test yourself. Usually you aren’t going to be hitting 1RM mid program or really anything throughout. You have to regulate fatigue and max effort like that would crush your progress. You may hit some doubles and triples or go to rep failure with sub maximal weight though. @Kerleyfries and @rngr are gearing up for their meet in April and they will start to peak about 2 weeks out. They will test their openers but they won’t touch truly max 1RM weight until meet day

 

Yerp. I touched 90% of comp weight once in training. Would have been twice if I had started with a coach earlier. Either way, don't worry about maxing anything. Do what the guy you are paying tells you and watch the magic work.

 

Yep, the way the weights are feeling right now, I’m having a really really really hard time refraining from thinking about the PRs coming in April. I keep telling myself that it’s a loooooong time away and that’s a whole lot of time for me to mess up and get hurt if I’m not on my A-game every day.

But dang... barbells are moving for me right now. Amazing what smart programming and a bunch of food will do.

@ThunderCookies knows his stuff and carbs are goooood.

 

I’m pumped for you guys