Random Talk

[Besticus Maximus]

The first 12-18 months of lifting seriously were some of the best times of my life 

I've recently broken through a plateau and I'm knocking out PB weights semi-steadily again for the first time in a while.

Feels good bro

Problem is the heavier you go the more a bit of a setback gets in your head

I've never fucked with the cable machines much, at the moment I'm turning my PPL into something a bit different

Mondays I play seven a side footy outside, tuesdays and fridays I play five a side if I get the call which is not always and usually once a week max. This messes with my schedule but I still tend to get to the gym 4-5 times a week but I need rest days and I do feel tired and fatigued a lot these days (mid thirties).

If I can I like to do legs on footy day to maximise the gainz but Im doing my best to cycle through push, pull legs in the right order each week so I can spend one other day on a day where I can mix it up a bit and add in other movements so I'm not overdoing deadlifts or squats as they're fairly heavy and only getting heavier.

I started adding in assisted dips to push day and assisted pull ups to pull day. When I started I used pullups as a barometer and it worked tbh because once I could do three proper pull ups I was on my way to getting strong at the gym and I could tell. That's probably good advice for nintex, get a pull up bar at home to hang over a door and do one when you go through. If you cant do a clean pull up hang for a few weeks until you can.

Strong app to track workouts, apple watch to track calories burned for exercise, audible (currently doing Slewfoot by Brom which fucking rules so far) and the gym is time well spent.