hylian_elf wrote:

Holiday from work and other stuff, yes. Not from keeping active and being healthy.  I’m not gonna stop doing mountain climbing or trekking on holiday for example  just because some people think it’s all about being a lazy fuck by a beach and pool wasting time.

Going out and about on holiday and exploring /walking / hiking and stuff i don't consider exercise. Working out in a gym on holiday i do consider exercise. Each to their own though and all that.

Anyone else find they feel they should be stronger than they are sometimes? I feel my bench press fucking sucks but don't know how to improve. I'll struggle for a set of 8 at 60kg (on bar over bench). Yet my deadlift is 5x115kg and my squat is 10x110kg or thereabouts

Just regular grip mate. I do three sessions a week. One session I do bench press, another I do floor press (lying on floor and use dumbbells) and another session has incline dumbbell chest press.

When I bench I'll warm up a couple of sets of about 40, then I'm doing 4x8 reps. Usually 50, then 55 then 60.

It's just food the day before (or on the day) sleep and general energy levels. 
I'm up to 80kg bench one day and then I can barely lift it the following week. 
But on the same day I don't struggle with incline bench at all. 
It's all a bit weird.

Verecocha wrote:

MattyJ wrote:

Just regular grip mate. I do three sessions a week. One session I do bench press, another I do floor press (lying on floor and use dumbbells) and another session has incline dumbbell chest press.

When I bench I'll warm up a couple of sets of about 40, then I'm doing 4x8 reps. Usually 50, then 55 then 60.

Switch to suicide grip straight away dude, you’ll gain 5-10% quickly through that. It’s a natural grip for pushing, normal grip is unnatural so will hold you back. Also stop doing weight you know you can do, start doing what you know you can’t. Straight in after warming up go to 60, don’t waste power on weights you can do too easily. Push yourself.

Will give it a go dude thanks!

Basically the only real lift I have left but up to 170kg 2x5 for deadlift yeew

After fuckng my MCL, and being tentative I have started weighted squats again. Also rugby training has finished so need to strengthen up over the summer. Feels good. That's all.

Verecocha wrote:

Just regular grip mate. I do three sessions a week. One session I do bench press, another I do floor press (lying on floor and use dumbbells) and another session has incline dumbbell chest press. When I bench I'll warm up a couple of sets of about 40, then I'm doing 4x8 reps. Usually 50, then 55 then 60.

Switch to suicide grip straight away dude, you’ll gain 5-10% quickly through that. It’s a natural grip for pushing, normal grip is unnatural so will hold you back. Also stop doing weight you know you can do, start doing what you know you can’t. Straight in after warming up go to 60, don’t waste power on weights you can do too easily. Push yourself.

Suicide grip for bench? I don't think I've ever tried it for bench, but I won't OHP any other way. I might give it a go tonight and see if it makes any difference. After I've seen if I can do it without a spotter ofc.

Edit: it also means I get to use more chalk, which is my fetish.

Haw haw, will drop from 5 sets when I am not fearful of damaging anything.

Dunno what my max is any more.

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Going for 175 2x5 next week and on paper should be able to manage 200, grelps. If I do not return it is because I have been rent in twain.

I've been running the new Internet hotness nsuns program, which is a combo of 5/3/1 and sheiko. The volume is absolutely nuts. Combined with running before I do weights my gym sessions have become long and brutal.

Hopefully it will actually make my Ohp go up. I've been stuck for ages, though admittedly haven't been trying as hard since I decided to start running.

77.5kg for my Ohp amrap set tonight.... We will see.

I'm hoping I'll get more used to it - the first week was absolutely brutal, but it's getting better. Running in the days after starting squats back up was awful.

I think main problem is time. Running takes somewhere between 30 minutes and an hour, and then doing a bit of cooling down, changing shoes and over to the weights for an hour and a half. I end up in the gym for up to 3 hours 5 days a week. I'm not sure how sustainable that is.