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I'm in two minds about that approach due to risk of injury due to lack of energy/focus and not maintaining good form etc.

What's odd is even when I've had some good eating days and gotten some decent sleep, the fall off in strength between sets is the thing that stands out most notably.

My gym emailed me to say great news, we're doing 100k worth of upgrades for a nip and tuck. I opened it with excitement thinking here come the extra 5 and 10kg plates I've been waiting for (we have a severe shortage of these), along with some more oly bars for deadlifting and another squat rack.

100k of "functional equipment" upgrades. Being installed today and won't impact the free weights area. Farking cuuuunts. Do they know how much actually functional strength equipment that money could buy?!?

I am cutting out the low rep stuff for a while as I have been getting reoccurring back pain from a old injury (dehydrated discs).

German volume training here I come again.

Down to the lightest i have been in years 88kg sitting 11-12% body fat strength starting to hit a wall but still pretty strong. Look flat and bloated from sups and bugger all carbs. Cant wait for another few weeks to switch things around a bit when i get below 10%bf

Joints are a bit sore so belts and straps for pretty much everything

Morning all.

I'm still here, doing little more than maintenance these days due to work, not great sleep, long winter season of illness etc. Lost 5-6kgs (not intentionally and it sucks, but hey, more abs) and am only getting 3x 30-40min sessions a week these days so unsurprisingly my strength/size has/is also going backwards.

Because I cannot easily control the factors affecting it, what's the best approach to try and minimise the losses? Drop the weight so I can get out the full rep/set scheme (3x8 in most cases, 2x15 on squats bu they are only light and are a special case due to my back) or continue doing what I've been doing which is struggle but keep adding sets to get the full volume out. as in 8, 8, 5, 3 or 8, 7, 6, 3 etc.

Good to see you guys (and Leesh) still cranking out your sessions :D

Make sure you calorie intake supports it, especially protein. Concentrate on your compounds with linear progression. 30-40mins should be plenty to get out your sets. If you've gotten weaker, reset, start again.

I'm taking a week off, will have a light session on Wednesday, upping food intake, trying to get to bed earlier, back on multivitamin, daily yoghurt/juice for better immune health etc.

Starting to feel slightly better, at least from the point of view of not catching anything for a few weeks.

That old man struggle is real - as Rev sits there laughing.

Thanks fellas. Yeah, the hips rising early is a bit of a common thing I do. I'm thinking it's related to not engaging my lats enough and thus not "drawing the bar back" quite enough.

Birds I'm 5'9 / 175cm or thereabouts. I think I've got slightly shorter limbs (femur in particular) and longer torso than average, which is supposedly common with my heritage.

I think I'm somewhere between the first and second images in the different types below.

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My gym emailed me to say great news, we're doing 100k worth of upgrades for a nip and tuck. I opened it with excitement thinking here come the extra 5 and 10kg plates I've been waiting for (we have a severe shortage of these), along with some more oly bars for deadlifting and another squat rack.

100k of "functional equipment" upgrades. Being installed today and won't impact the free weights area. Farking cuuuunts. Do they know how much actually functional strength equipment that money could buy?!?

Must retract these comments

When they said the upgrades wouldn't affect the free weights area, it was a bit of a mistruth, as they have now created a second free weights area

Basically a huge crossfit/lifting/kettlebell station ala my previous gym

Complete with two deadlifting platforms, full size small plates and about 10 Ironedge squat and deadlift bars with some sweet, sweet knurling

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f**k yeah

Every time Birds comes to my power lifting gym he has a sad about the bars though because they hurt his hands. I think they are awesome but maybe because I'm used to them. Once you go a texas bar you don't go back.

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