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You can find good programs for free.

You know Layne is on that list too, right? Woo this if you’re ignorant.

Deadlifts helped me. Maybe that’s an option for you.

No full body 3 days a week love?

Gotta stay off that Instagram.

Drinking your calories can help when feeling full is an issue.

Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that he’s complaining about 90 second rest times? Wait till you’re lifting heavy and resting 5+ minutes...

Plenty of people still deadlift even with herniated discs (and sometime people don’t even know they have one). What are you gonna do? Get so weak that you herniate another disk while trying to get out of a car (happened to my mother in law)?

It’s not that, I never stared it and it isn’t stared currently. Supposedly, when you reply to a thread, you’ll get notifications forever unless you turn off ALL notifications.

I regret replying to this thread. The notifications never stop!

Nope.

Why only 2 sets on the bench press? Or is that a typo?

From what I saw your form looks pretty solid in my opinion, it’s at least 90% good. Ya, you could clean up and tweak your form a little here and there but it’s nothing that would limit you in your progress at this stage. Maybe someone else has a different opinion? Again, try increasing your rest time and see if that helps…

Hmm weird. I didn’t know that. How does that even work?

I’m curious. Maybe you can elaborate on what you do to activate your glutes.

I feel like this tread is mixing up glute strength and glute activation (the process of “waking up the glutes” prior to lifting). Yes, building glute strength is good No, you don’t need to wake up your butt.

Yep, I think that would be just fine. Maybe the lifts might need to be changed or rearranged but you’ll do fine on a upper/lower split.

It just means that you’re organizing your training into periods. These periods would generally be different in intensity/volume/frequency. For long term progress you need periods of higher volume/lower intensity and periods of higher intensity/lower volume.

I’m on that perma-bulk plan.

Make sure you’re using a warm-up protocol that prepares you for your work set. Never jump straight into a heavy set before you’ve primed your mind/body/soul for it. The method I use is to do warm-up sets that gradually increase in weight while tapering off in reps with the last warm-up set about 5-10% away from your work…

They can all work for the most part, but there are trade offs to consider. Same weight “sets across” - most effective (imo) but very time consuming (long rest times required). Ascending sets - can be tricky to use correctly (too small of jumps and you burn out before reaching your top set). Descending sets - a solid…

When you’re doing hard “sets across” (3 sets x 5 reps) complete rest between sets will eventually be necessary. Complete rest can take anywhere from 5-8 minutes (or more in some cases). So try resting longer on your bench and overhead press.

How consistent are you with your workouts? How long is your rest time between sets?

How high does the intensity need to be to be considered high intensity? 70%/80%/90%/MAX?

Make it a little bit harder than last time. This is progressive overload. It can happen quickly for beginners.

Don’t forget your pull-ups/chin-ups.

This goes against what I think I know as well. Eagerly awaiting your response.

It’s too extreme for me..

What’s going on?

What’s wrong with her squat?