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I learned the hard way that training should never interfere with life. If you are smoked afterwards or too fatigued or beat up the next day to surf you should dial it back a bit. I've made some of my biggest strength gains taking things relatively easy compared to how I used to train. Right now I'm in the doldrums. Nothing feels productive gains are few and far in between but I know accepting this now and just taking what I get on every training day, I'll hit a period where everything clicks. If I were to go make a bunch of changes chances are I would get stuck in unproductive cycle after unproductive cycle. Best bet, take what's there and enjoy the gains when your body is ready for them.
Most of the better fitness types I follow say that it's best to rack it with 1-2 left in the tank, and to finish your workout feeling like you could do a bit more. The idea that you should be beat up and sore for several days is holdover over from the 80s/90s.
You mention day 1 and day 2. What about the rest of the week? Are you sayin only do the weights 2 days a week and just do aerobic exercise the whole rest of the week? I've been going to the gym 3 to 5 days a week for an hour each session. Had to look up what RPE meant. Having said that I would say my current workouts are more sets than you recommend but staying in the 4 to 9 range and never going to 10. I generally focus on lower body one day and upper body the next and do some abs and core every session. We are heading into winter here so for the next 4 months the vast majority of the exercise I get will be at the gym.
Random exercises = Random results.You mention day 1 and day 2. What about the rest of the week? Are you sayin only do the weights 2 days a week and just do aerobic exercise the whole rest of the week? I've been going to the gym 3 to 5 days a week for an hour each session. Had to look up what RPE meant. Having said that I would say my current workouts are more sets than you recommend but staying in the 4 to 9 range and never going to 10. I generally focus on lower body one day and upper body the next and do some abs and core every session. We are heading into winter here so for the next 4 months the vast majority of the exercise I get will be at the gym.
In December I'll possibly switch it up and add swimming. I had ditched the gym with a pool early on in Covid due to their stupid Covid rules and haven't been back there since. So long as our asshole governor doesn't do anything stupid after election day I'll go back to that other gym rather than the rogue middle finger to covid gym I've been at the past year and a half.
Hey man, I'm speaking for most of us when I say I've learned a ton from your poasts regardless of the people who reject your advice.
VM got me to start doing squats and deads regularly. I only did them for sporadic periods and gave up because the form never felt right and I was getting bad advice from others.
it works. only issue is gassing out surfing if u train day prior
I don't know that Wendlers programming ever worked for anyone except Wendler. It's inappropriate for and would require extremely drastic changes to fit a novice. Intermediate and advanced lifters begin and have their own unique programming requirements to optimize adaptation so it doesn't fit their either. I don't want to say it's the worst program ever written but as a template....it's the worst program ever written. I think if he published a shell with some variables it could be an option but that wouldn't have sold a bunch of e-books.
Plan your training ahead of flat spells? Or surf in the morning and train late afternoon?
I just checked out the Starting Strength squat video and WTF?VM got me to start doing squats and deads regularly. I only did them for sporadic periods and gave up because the form never felt right and I was getting bad advice from others.
When I checked out Rippetoe/Starting Strength and his form videos, it finally clicked for me
Since then I cannot fathom doing a workout that is not full body.
4:19 - watch the vicinity of the L5 at the bottom of the squat...not sure if it's anatomical or technique related but that exact movement his pelvis is doing at the very end of the squat before coming up is textbook for how to cause disc injury wear and tear (no pun intended) in the workplace...so imagine the disc pressure when it's loaded.