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[Protobuilder]

6 is pretty low but you've essentially doubled and even tripled your rep count so it'll take a few initial weeks of breaking in, I s'pose. Overall though, Day 1 shouldn't be so traumatic. LoL

Twice now, I've tried DL'ing on W and high pulls on M & F only to eventually drop one day of high pulls (swap for rows), and eventually dropping both days. It was a lower back thing for me, and some thigh conditioning as well. You might keep high pulls on your light volume squat day and go to rows on your high volume squat day. Leave W alone. Just a thought. Or maybe just throw in a set of heavy rows here and there so you don't lose the adaptation as severely. A cycle without rows is, well, incomplete to me. LoL

 

[Jim Ouini]

Overall though, Day 1 shouldn't be so traumatic. LoL

Hell no it shouldn't. That's exactly what I was thinking, I kept hearing MC2 in the back of my head that Week 1 should be a walk in the park. But for some reason I felt like I needed to get used to 'straining' more on my squats. No more tip-toeing around the weight. Guess I was wrong, as I almost buried myself yesterday.

I've subbed the rows once before for clean pulls- although my form back then was more deadlift into a polite shrug - and deaded on Wed. Not sure I could do that again since I've found I can't manage my workload very well with deads.

I may toss in some rows as you suggest, hell some of my rows are starting to look like clean pulls anyway

 

[Jim Ouini]

Week 1 Day 2

Pretty much working out at home unless otherwise noted. Tough workout, I forgot how these Wed volume workouts are.

Drop under bar drills
Bar x 5 x 5 (vid)

Felt maybe a wee bit faster today, especially last 2 sets.

Front Squat
60 x 5
65 x 5
70 x 5
75 x 3
80 x 3
85 x 3
90 x 3 (vid)

Hip was a little sore today, I felt it coming out of the hole. Weight wasn't too bad, tried to reign it in a little after Monday's disaster. I hit something on the way down on my first rep so I was lifting kind of careful last set.

Trap Bar DL
75 x 2 x 5
115 x 1
135 x 4 x 6 (vid) Certainly nothing exciting to look at, although I did want to see if this more 'rack pull-ish' as far a starting position. Weight was pretty easy but hip was feeling it off the floor.

Incline Bench
Bar x 15
60 x 5
80 x 4 x 6

A little tougher than I'dve liked. Pretty knackered by now.

Towel-ups/Chins
Green Band x 3 x 8

No enthusiasm by and these towel pullups are tough, I sure can't do more than 2 with BW. Switched to chins and they weren't much better.

Overall: Man I hope it's just the Week 1 blues, especially inclining. Yipes.

 

[carlsuen]

wow.. i love your layout man.. good luck on the new cycle!

 

[Jim Ouini]

Well thanks but it's just standard 5 x 5 template, basically

Anyway, I may drop the pullups and on Fri's I'll try to do 3 x 10 bicep curls and 3 x 10 lying db extensions or something

 

[petpre61]

I think the bar is supposed to meet the shoulders when you stomp your feet

 

[blut wump]

I watched the "drop under" vid. I think maybe you need to put a little more weight on the bar since it seemed to me that you were doing a reverse curl to grab a few extra inches in the process. Of course, I have little experience with these.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Thank you for the comments guy, much appreciated.

Yeah I'm still trying to dial everything in - lots to think about: speed, foot stomp and elbow whip are my main things. Sometimes I forget the elbow whip Just yesterday I was thinking of a way to have the bar meet my shoulders just as I stomped my feet.

As far as adding weight, the thought crossed my mind but I resisted as I'm hoping I can corret it mentally. We'll see.

 

[BiggT]

Nice last couple of workouts.....sometimes I am a little nervous the first week of a new cycle when things aren't a total joke, but usually it corrects itself with some conditioning, worst case scenario, you can just load hard for 2 weeks or even 3, then deload one week, and begin loading again......also, if you feel you're the type of trainee who does better with 2 week bursts of HEAVY loading, follwed with 1 week of unloading, it may be something to think about at this point......with me, I find that I don't need much reacclimation, maybe a week or so, then I adapt pretty quickly to the lifts I am training, so I might try that.

I can never view your vids at work on the CPU here for some reason, but I will check them out when I get home......you'll do well on the front squats, I think you're going to be an excellent squatter.....and no matter how taxing the fronts feel on Wed, they never contribute to much fatigue, soreness, or CNS issues because they are still lighter than back squats and not brutal on the posterior chain.

 

[carlsuen]

jim.. would u mind putting your vids on youtube? as i can't seem to view it on putfile.. i'm retarded..

i also need work on my cleans..