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I normally go for benches and find it very tough but as i am new for bench press i think i will slowly come up to this difficulties and also my trainer is also very helpful and gives me a lot of positive quotes while doing this.
I have just started this routine. Quite new to lifting, have dabbled a bit over the years but regular injuries have prevented me from sticking to it.
Was lifting for 2 months before Christmas on a bit of a 3x5 based programme. Unfortunately the 2 week break while away over christmas, plus the bad diet and drinking has had quite a negative effect. I couldn't hit all my expected starting weights.
Managed to do the following:
Squat 3x10x92 -fairly hard
Bench 8x62, 5x62, 2x62 -too hard
Deadlift 3x8x108 -not too bad
OHP 3x8x33 -struggled
Bent Row 3x8x33 -easy
BB Curl 3x8x27 -not too bad, but probably cheated a little.. trying not to use momentum or bounce though.
Anyway, I was absolutely shattered at the end of this. Have never sweated so much in my life. It might take me a couple of weeks to get used to the different volume, but I'm feeling great today and looking forward to getting stuck in again tomorrow.
Good luck Slingy, as someone who did this last year I would really encourage you to get your form checked on the lifts by a professional if possible. Should really help avoid injury and ensure you maximise progression.
This is so much harder than any other routines I've done.
Doing 5x5 or 3x5 with as much weight as I can handle just doesn't affect me like this routine does..
I've really struggled to finish my first two workouts so far.. Felt incredibly sick from the first one. Had to keep going outside between sets to get fresh air. Second one got an absolute killer of an exertion headache from the squats.
It's the first time I've not felt like I need to stop because the weight is too heavy but because I'm just shattered. Effort>Weight
This is so much harder than any other routines I've done.
Doing 5x5 or 3x5 with as much weight as I can handle just doesn't affect me like this routine does..
I've really struggled to finish my first two workouts so far.. Felt incredibly sick from the first one. Had to keep going outside between sets to get fresh air. Second one got an absolute killer of an exertion headache from the squats.
It's the first time I've not felt like I need to stop because the weight is too heavy but because I'm just shattered. Effort>Weight
Well I kinda enjoy the pain. Though the headache wasn't nice.. I'm pretty sure it's a general sort of fitness thing, related to blood circulation rather than CNS fatigue.
Last night I may not have had enough rest because my training partner was in a bit of a hurry.. He was doing two sets to my one, but he's got a crappy routine; pretty much all pressing and curling.
I really wish I could hit the weights again today, but it's probably not a good idea.
Well I kinda enjoy the pain. Though the headache wasn't nice.. I'm pretty sure it's a general sort of fitness thing, related to blood circulation rather than CNS fatigue.
Last night I may not have had enough rest because my training partner was in a bit of a hurry.. He was doing two sets to my one, but he's got a crappy routine; pretty much all pressing and curling.
I really wish I could hit the weights again today, but it's probably not a good idea.
Yeah, I understand. I'm just really enjoying it though!
Next workout is planned for Sunday. I've been terrible in the past at working out on the weekend, so this will be a good test of my commitment. The fact that I'm trying to drink less booze should help.
Can't work out on Fridays or Saturday mornings because I play high level lawn bowls (yeah, laugh it up) on Saturday afternoons. Need a stable balanced stance, so having tired legs or DOMS from squats is no good.
Personally I'm just not used to doing more than 5 reps on squats or deadlifts except for warmups or doing tabata thrusters with comparatively light weight.
I will not increase weight on anything I can't get the specified reps and sets out with good form. I'm particularly careful with form for squats and deadlifts. The others don't matter to me so much as long as it's not something that I feel is going to cause an injury. As an example, my barbell curls get pretty shabby in the last three reps of each set, it's not going to end in injury and I'll leave the weight as-is until I can get the reps without any swinging, bouncing, or leaning back.
So it took three workouts for me to get used to the workload of this workout and not feel like I was going to die. I've adapted the order in which I perform the exercises.
Squat
Bench
Deadlift
OHP
Row
Curl
Suits me best in terms of recovery between exercises.
Also need to take a decent break between sets for Squat, Bench and Deads.. Remembering that I'm doing this as more of powerlifting routine than body building.
I've got a mate who is going to be starting on this routine sometime this week. He's coming from an even more novice level than me, so it will be interesting to see how he progresses.. I have a feeling he's not keen to put in the required effort and won't stick with it.
Sometimes you just have to trust the routine, it can be tempting to throw in 6 different types of curls and dips and skullcrushers and other stuff.
@slingy
You might want to do deadlifts later on in the workout as when the weights start to get heavier you are still gonna be pretty rooted from the squats
So it took three workouts for me to get used to the workload of this workout and not feel like I was going to die. I've adapted the order in which I perform the exercises.
Squat
Bench
Deadlift
OHP
Row
Curl
Suits me best in terms of recovery between exercises.
Also need to take a decent break between sets for Squat, Bench and Deads.. Remembering that I'm doing this as more of powerlifting routine than body building.
You might want to put deadlifts after the rows as when the weights start to get heavy you are still going to be pretty rooted from the squats even after the bench
@slingy
You might want to do deadlifts later on in the workout as when the weights start to get heavier you are still gonna be pretty rooted from the squats