Soon to be starting week 7 of Strength and Conditioning template and I really enjoyed it. My squat is going up and feeling light again, standing press is slowly improving , and I feel I have added a little muscle due to what I see in the mirror and appetite growing.
I’m looking ahead and have questions on my next template or programming. I feel I could run it again and improve on some things namely eating better, missing less GPP sessions( I missed a few), better grasp of RPE now so I do think I can run it again and still see linear progress…
My only concern is that the next 2-3 months will be the busiest and most stressful of the year for me considering my work schedule as a mailman , daughter’s dance and basketball schedule, and fitting in a few winter hiking and skiing sessions in there. Should I still try to run it again or would the new 8 week Time Crunch be beneficial for me and then run S&C again after?
last question, I still suck at chins and desperately want to hit my first unassisted. I’ve been doing band assisted chins and negatives twice a week for my upper back GPP but still not there yet? Currently I can do 6 sets of 2 negatives for a total of 12 with about 30 seconds rest between each set. I’m at 1x5, 1x4, 1x3 with a medium band (one knee in band) for assisted chins. For haha’s, this week I did the chins 4-5 times and it seemed to help. Should I program the banded chins and negatives more frequently or differently to progress better?
I’ll run S&C again, try to tighten up eating and the GPP work. I’m 6’3, 215, no visible abs but by no means fat. I’m in pretty good shape, do a lot of hiking so forth. I’m definitely getting atronger and progressing on them but feel it’s taking so long. I wasn’t sure if programming should somehow be different and or more frequent to get to the unassisted chins quicker…
Do you have a waist measurement? What are your current lifts in the big 3? Any big previous upper body injury?
The reason I ask is to get a better sense of what your limitation stems from. I probably wouldn’t add frequency to something that you cannot perform just yet, however.
Current waist is 35 inch waist, squat 1RM is 335, Bench IRM is 207.5 and I don’t compete so I have a Trap bar and like using that for Deadlift, 1Rm is 395. I just have never tried doing chins my entire life until recently. When I first bought bands and tried negatives it was ugly, now I can do negatives fairly slowly and have worked my way down in bands so I have been making progress, everything I read up on them says to do them in Pavel’s GTG style to rapidly progress on them…