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05-20-2007, 03:40 PM
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Gender:  |  If this is your first stall then you should be able to get in going again. It is always worth it to progress in the simplest, quickest, and most straight forward way possible for as long as possible. The general trend in training will be that things become more complicated and progress becomes slower...so don't burn any bridges before you come to them. |
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05-20-2007, 03:57 PM
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Gender: | alrightly, full steam ahead with the rippetoes then. ill back off about 10-15 pounds on those lifts and keep plugging away. i think im getting a bit lazy though, its taking me about 2.5 hours to get this supposedly 45 minute routine done lol. |
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05-20-2007, 04:07 PM
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Gender: | Back off around 10%. Then you can take up to two weeks to get back up to the previous level depending on the increments. 10 or 15 lbs probably wouldn't allow enough recovery at the weights your working with. Say for bench at 225 you'd get 22.5 pounds for a backoff...so say 25. You could just add 5 pounds to that every workout bringing you back up to 225 in 5 workouts with the 6th workout being a hopeful jump in weight past the previous. You could make bigger jumps but I don't think 10 pounds would work and even if it got you going you would probably stall again faster. Basically what you want is to rest up and recuperate so you'll be less "tired". But you don't want to drop the weights too far and you don't want to take too long or too short a time building back up. Three weeks may be too long and one week may be too short. |
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05-23-2007, 01:24 PM
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Gender: | mondays B lift military press: 2x5 at 140 1x4 at 140 squats: 2x5 at 260 1x3 at 260 1x2 at 260 cleans: 5x3 at 160 (no straps this time) rows: 3x5 at 140 todays A lift bench: 3x5 at 200 squat: 2x5 at 260 1x4 at 260 dips: 2x8 at BW deadlift: 1x5 at 295 i think im going to reset on my squats for friday and work my way back up. |
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05-23-2007, 07:35 PM
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Damn, how is this workout taking you 2.5 hours to do? One of the things I like most about this workout is that I can wrap it all up in 1 to 1.5 hours. When I was doing a split type workout I was spending 2-2.5 hours easily. | |
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05-24-2007, 07:26 AM
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Gotcha that makes more sense now. When my lifting partner and I are in the gym its all business...unless a cute girl walks by and then the discussion may stray a bit. | |
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05-30-2007, 03:44 PM
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Gender: | yea, to bad all the girls in my weightroom are tanks and could probably play tackle at ohio state. lol. if there where any hot ones they would get scared off by them. couldn't lift monday, weightroom not open. todays A lift was really bad, it was a struggle to get my bench done and i couldn't even get my deadlift up once, i think it was the 5 hours of sleep i got last night and/or i might be catching the flu my littlest brother has. im not sure. here is what i did do... bench: 3x5 at 205 squat: 3x5 at 240 dips: 2x7 at BW deadlift: 1x0 at 295 |
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06-04-2007, 01:19 PM
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Gender: | Fridays B lift military press: 3x5 at 135 squat: 3x5 at 245 cleans: 5x3 at 170 rows: 3x5 at 150 lat pulldown: 3x8 at 160 Todays A lift bench: 3x5 at 210 deadlift: 1x5 at 300 squat: 3x5 at 250 dips: 2x8 at BW 20 minutes on recumbant bike at LVL 20 and hills |
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