Working on a lifting platform. Might even have it put together this week. Did a test run on the rubber mats I cut out. So much better than dropping onto hard concrete floor. Looking forward to having it done.
Deadlifts and bench presses hit my 4x10 sets on both today! Feeling good. Gonna do one more week at this weight though because I barely made the full sets of both. Slowly working my curls up. With the 34lbs I managed 4x8 sets for those. Planning on making some 40lb dumbbells soon using some 8inch concrete tube forms similar to how I made the big cans.
I wore an orange shirt and socks. Black shorts and dark green stockings. I need to do some laundry. I'm down to "uh what's clean?" mode.
just finished a fairly low volume training program that didn't really work for me (except for deadlift) so now I'm gonna go completely 180 and doing a program of my own where all the progression comes from adding extra sets each workout and the volume gets silly pretty quick.
almost certainly gonna get injured.
robbed a load of gym mat flooring from work, was going to kit my garage out with it but having had a look it's about 500quid worth so I might sell it, dunno. it's wicked good stuff. it's so heavy you just roll it out and it lies completely flat after an hour or so
I did the typical 3 sets of 5, 3 days a week, liberal progression for a while. I gained ok but the rate was slow and I eventually hit a wall. So dropped a little weight and increased reps. I work towards 4 sets of 10 then increase weight. Now I do deadlift and bench presses on Mondays, recover two days and overhead presses and squats on Thursdays. My muscles get pretty sore the next few days. The actual gains though have been much better than with the other method. Here in a few months I'm going to switch to a 5x5 3 days a week program. Then 6mo down the line switch back to what I'm doing now.
I did also discover that I was way under eating on protein and once I increased that intake my muscle gain and recovery time was significantly improved.
Just be safe and don't overdo it. You might be frustrated in slower growth than what you want but if you hurt yourself it could knock out out for months or worst case scenario you mess something up permanently. Just be careful comrade.