Feeling Undiminished, Blut Attempts Restoration

[blut wump]

A bit of rough sandpaper on that shiny new bar of yours will stop the weights sliding off, then you won't have to worry about the 0.5kg anomaly. Or you could leave them outside in the chicken shed and wait for them to rust up a bit

I'm enjoying the heat too - I downed well over 2 litres of water whilst working out yesterday.

Welcome back!

There's a thin covering of oil over everything, plates and bar, so they'll take some time to rust but they are living outside.

I couldn't think about taking an abrasive to it. That'd be a fubar.

 

[blut wump]

the time off might even help, if it re-sensitizes you to the lighter loads.. that's never worked for me but apparently it does for some people

Cheers.

I don't think it's ever worked for me either. I just see the lighter weights as something I have to go through to get back to where I was.

 

[anotherbutters]

Let's hope your grip strength comes back quickly if you're going to try deadlifting an oily bar

 

[Cynical Simian]

Good to see you back in action, and welcome to the home (stable?) workout club.

 

[Jim Ouini]

That 3 week 20 repper program BiggT recommended sounds pukalicious. I did 2 weeks of 15's for my HST adding weight every workout and was happy to have it end.

OTOH, I do think it upped my conditioning as the 5's don't seem so bad now.

Regardless, welcome back.

 

[blut wump]

I'm feeling tempted by the 20-rep squats, mostly because I've never tried to do them before progressively. I'm not sure I've ever done 20 or more reps with more than 135. I remember doing 15 reps with 150 a very long time ago.

Yesterday, I finished off with 20 reps with just the bar with the vague thought that it might benefit my ankle so BiggT's chiming in with the suggestion to do 20-rep squats hit a chord. I'm also thinking that if I just proceed normally then I have a fairly tedious month ahead of me just trying to get back and this is a nice way of stepping outside the box. It's also starting to feel like a personal challenge.

 

[Protobuilder]

I'll be watching. I'd really like to see progressive 20-reppers. I just don't want to hear any whining about CNS burnout, lactic acid build up, etc. LoL I've gotten the 20 rep bug before too. I acted on it, for like one or two very light backoff sets just to see what happened. LoL That taste made me want to tackle it progressively but I didn't want to screw up my program so I dropped 'em. Regardless of whether you do 'em, I'll be checking in.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Any idea what your 20RM might be?

 

[blut wump]

None whatsoever. I'm pretty sure I can do it at one-plate so that'd be a good place to start. I can't even go outside and test it meaningfully since the number would be quickly out of date. Either I just dive in and keep trying to add weight or not.

 

[BiggT]

BW, with the progressive 20-reppers, if you followed the basic layout of poundages (which I think is more than realistic, considering you were a low-400's squatter pre-injury) the first 2.5 weeks will really be conditioning work, and you may or may not find the last 2 workouts of 275 and 295 to be tough, but soreness won't be a big issue from the conditioning you'd have built up, and you'd be surprised how easy they get when you 'toughen up' after you gain the work capicity needed.....at that point, you'd be able to probably get back into 5 reppers at around 315 and you'd probably be maybe 4-6 weeks away at most from 365ishx5's......you could make the 20 reppers twice a week for 4 weeks if you'd feel more comfortable that way......the only thing, from my experiences at least, is that 20 reppers work best when thats all you do.....doing 5's or 3's or 10's or front squats or whatever on the other days has always been a recipe for premature burnout.