[/quote]I struggle with this myself. I had some of the most consistent strength results I have ever had in over 12 yrs of training following tac barbell at the start of the year. Before that I was following another more intense programming option that was giving me great results, but I needed to be on leave and do nothing to recover from the sessions.
I went back to that harder programming and again had some great results, but started to have a few overuse injuries. Re injured myself and spent two months rebuilding my back and lifting form.
I am now back and using a very conservative max for my lifts and following operator to regroove the movements.
Basically I feel amazing. My lifts are feeling easy and my back is feeling pretty damn good. I also have heaps of energy and will be working my conditioning hard and building that back up. I actually enjoy my training again and I am excited to throw in the occasional challenge type work out, were before I felt like I was surviving until my recovery day.
Consistency trumps intensity.[/quote]
Glad to hear everything is working out for you. I've been an athlete since I was a young kid, but only in the gym consistently for the past eight years and I think just in the last year or so I finally realized that consistency trumps intensity. I see guys all the time buy a bunch of supplements and do some reading on a bodybuilding forum and go at it for a few weeks to the most being a few months and either get injured, burnout, or just give up because they aren't seeing the results instantly like they thought they would
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Glad to hear everything is working out for you. I've been an athlete since I was a young kid, but only in the gym consistently for the past eight years and I think just in the last year or so I finally realized that consistency trumps intensity. I see guys all the time buy a bunch of supplements and do some reading on a bodybuilding forum and go at it for a few weeks to the most being a few months and either get injured, burnout, or just give up because they aren't seeing the results instantly like they thought they would[/quote]I struggle with this myself. I had some of the most consistent strength results I have ever had in over 12 yrs of training following tac barbell at the start of the year. Before that I was following another more intense programming option that was giving me great results, but I needed to be on leave and do nothing to recover from the sessions.
I went back to that harder programming and again had some great results, but started to have a few overuse injuries. Re injured myself and spent two months rebuilding my back and lifting form.
I am now back and using a very conservative max for my lifts and following operator to regroove the movements.
Basically I feel amazing. My lifts are feeling easy and my back is feeling pretty damn good. I also have heaps of energy and will be working my conditioning hard and building that back up. I actually enjoy my training again and I am excited to throw in the occasional challenge type work out, were before I felt like I was surviving until my recovery day.
Consistency trumps intensity.
Re: Working sets
I workout out in my home gym when I can. It's really hard to take the 2+minutes of rest half the gym is eyeballing your squat rackDot hop wrote:Agreed. My home gym helped me grow up. It was easier to ignore my pride and work with more reasonable weights.Which in turn, gave me more confidence to do my own thing when lifting at the station.
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Tyr0331 wrote:I workout out in my home gym when I can. It's really hard to take the 2+minutes of rest when half the gym is eyeballing your squat rackDot hop wrote:Agreed. My home gym helped me grow up. It was easier to ignore my pride and work with more reasonable weights.Which in turn, gave me more confidence to do my own thing when lifting at the station.