I've been semi-consistently doing Simple and Sinister (with much lower weights) for about a year and a half. But I basically just did the exercises that the book told me to and didn't really learn why. Now I'm trying to branch out a little. Progress has been slow, which is fine since I was basically starting from nothing, but I feel like maybe I need to do a few other things at this point.
A thing I can tell you from experience, and this will be a repeat of what I've posted before, is that training specificity is such that you'll be better served to have a specific goal. "I want to deadlift 495 for a 1RM by June 20th." Something like that.
My current goal is to be able to do all my exercises with 2 different weights of kettlebells: 24kg for swings, and 16kg for squats/halos/get ups. Any other exercises are just a bonus.
Seriously this. Set difficult goals and be surprised when you hit them. Mine for the second half of last year was a full proper-form 405x8 deadlift (190ish, so ~2.1x bodyweight), finally managed it mid-January, happy about it even though it was a week or two off. Now it's on to core/stability work so I can stay balanced well enough to do the full range of motion for actual heavy bar squats as opposed to the hacksquat machine.
Lets you pull more. Your double overhand will fail first, and the alternative is hook grip, which is uncomfortable for people. Stronger hand is overhand, usually your dominant. Make sure you stagger your off hand by one finger or so, you'll see the difference in how the bar comes up level once you space it out.
Are you eating enough? My experience with KBs is that with the 16, you will move up by just keeping at it. Once you get to the 24, you have to be far more deliberate/planned in your training.
Honestly I probably am not. If I find an answer for this, I'll let you know.
Nice, I've been thinking of getting back into BJJ. I remember the funniest day of my life was getting submitted within seconds my first day by a guy with no legs.
If you are asking yourself this question then definitely not. Try getting a food scale and counting calories, it's a big pain in the ass, but the habit will pay itself off ten times over.
Not my gym, but one of the others in town has a brown belt with one leg.
Fuck yes man, it took me forever too with my orangutan arms
Congrats fren. Upward and onward.
How about doubling the workouts per plan and applying a rotation of high reps for hypertrophy ?
Was not sure if this was a troll or not at first, but after watching wow this inspired me to change my workouts. I typically just rest between sets, doing nothing for 20 seconds, but rotating different exercises that target different muscle groups is genius.
Kinda been doing that, I add in 3x10 for shits and giggles here and there (mainly on accessory work). My main issue here is DIET. Fucking can pull 405 for reps but eating clean is hard as hell lol.
I'll make an assumption and just suggest you buy a cheap blender that you can maintain, the amount of good carbs and protein you'll be able to down each day will be incredible.
