Ross im not an advanced lifter. i wish i was. i actually havent lifted consistantly in years. in high school i did but after that i was working for like a year and a half, and then my college didnt really have a good fitness center. it was all machines. the football coach let me use their wieght room once in a blue but it was limited. when i did workouts though i used to do a lot more than this though so this is me actually cutting back. i tried to stay in shape with some pushups and stuff until i graduated. and then the whole reactive arthritis thing set me back come. which leads me to eric
eric. since i havent worked out consistantly in years those sets of pull ups i did in high school are long gone lol. i had no where to do them. i can get to five maybe, and thats with a bunch of swinging. i can still do sets of dips because i did some push ups once in a blue. what i do is right after my ab work i get to some. a few times i have done some negatives to try and help. i didnt post it because i cant do enough for a set. everytime i try them though i will put up how many i do.
i see what you mean with the wrist rollers. its that i just love doing them. i actually was supersetting my bench with it. i would do my set and then do the rollers in between,and that was getting my grip strength crazy, and my bench stamina was getting better. but i left it in the gym one day and of course i never seen it again. i just bought another one. i like doing them so ill just try to keep it to a minimum somehow.
and with the exertional headaches, i got them a few times when i was younger and it sort have started recently again. i know what they did come from though. this may sound stupid,but if you do a little reading on it (which i am sure you have) you will see i am not lying. i got them from having to much sex and then doing squats. i know, i know, it sounds dumb, but it is the truth, i have had them enough times to pin point when they will happen. at first it was an assumption then when i did reading it popped right up. and if i just chilled out when it happened it might not have been so bad.
when i started to get it again it happened when i was doing a pyramid of squats. i got the headache on my second set. instead of just chilling off for a week i just kept going like an idiot. i put on 315 and got to eight and it felt like my head busted wide open. the pain travled through my head like water pouring. i could have just passed out. the next day i did a chest work out and it didnt leave.
i went to the doctor because the pain lasted longer than normal. i got some x-rays and they never got back to me after that. the remedy for it is indomethacin. when they wanted to give it to me i declined because i had some already from the reactive arthritis. they prescribed something else but im not into medicine to much because the indomethacin almost killed me last time. i think it was due to me having to take such a powerful med for so long. and after doing more research it is a slim possibility pain killers can hinder muscle development.
with all the time i took off it is actually ok, i just cant over do it. and i guess trying 20 reps of 315 wasnt the smartest thing to do off of a break
so i will stick with the 10X10 so i can get form breathing and whatever else good again. i will cut back on the neck harness also. i see what you are saying with the military presses. i wil just sub one of them with something else. and i mean to type pullovers on tuesday. not pulldowns. ill go back and edit it.
thanks for everybodies input feel free to keep posting and giving advice. if i didnt answer some of you guys questions let me know. ill get back