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I think this belongs in this section, but I'm not sure i can explain what I'm thinking. I've been working out right at a year now. I've made some major changes that I'm proud of, but looking back and thinking it's been a year of trt and a cycle, i think I could habe done more.
For this topic, I want to discuss what keeps me from getting stronger and bigger. For a while I was doing the reverse pyramid workout where every set is to failure. And since with that workout, you're constantly changing weight for each set, I never added up how much I was lifting. Even on my spreadsheet, I only listed what plates were on one side, ie 45, 35, 5. And since every set is to failure and i didn't have a spotter, i used a hammer strength machine for bench press.
So just before i switched to a different workout, i was doing bench and on my set of 4 reps, which I had been doing the same weight for a couple weeks, I looked at the bench and noticed it was quite a few plates so I added it up. It was a decent amount for my frame and size and I was impressed that I had been lifting that much previously. But now that I knew how much weight it was, I wasn't able to complete the set. It was too heavy for me.
I need to go to dinner with my wife. I will add more to this later and try to better state my thinking. But the premise is that my mind tells me I should only be so strong or maybe that i can only be so big.
For this topic, I want to discuss what keeps me from getting stronger and bigger. For a while I was doing the reverse pyramid workout where every set is to failure. And since with that workout, you're constantly changing weight for each set, I never added up how much I was lifting. Even on my spreadsheet, I only listed what plates were on one side, ie 45, 35, 5. And since every set is to failure and i didn't have a spotter, i used a hammer strength machine for bench press.
So just before i switched to a different workout, i was doing bench and on my set of 4 reps, which I had been doing the same weight for a couple weeks, I looked at the bench and noticed it was quite a few plates so I added it up. It was a decent amount for my frame and size and I was impressed that I had been lifting that much previously. But now that I knew how much weight it was, I wasn't able to complete the set. It was too heavy for me.
I need to go to dinner with my wife. I will add more to this later and try to better state my thinking. But the premise is that my mind tells me I should only be so strong or maybe that i can only be so big.