All Change.
Well, the recent experimentation is going well and has spurred me on to make a leap to developing a full home gym in order to give me the access/flexibility I need to fit my training methods in to my daily life. I have made a number of considerable changes for me. I have always been really interested in ‘functional’ strength and mucles and have been reading alot of Pavel Tsatsoulines works recently. To cut a long theoretical story short I have commenced on his PTTP routine and started the following:
- focusing on the deadlift and bent press with heavy ephasis on ab/stabilisor work and also grip and neck.
This really suits my mentality and much of what I have read and evaluated seems to ring true with my own experience.
- Introducing both linear and stepped cycles into my training (the previous omission of which I think has been a major oversight/error of mine)
- Increasing work-out frequency and dropping ‘to-failure’ sets as has aways been my previous practice.
- Keeping all sets to 5-reps (all reps done in the fashion as outlined in PTTP)
- Major focus on form.
- Supporting basic PTTP programme with GTG pull-up routine.
My initial feedback i positive. The increased volume and frequency of pull-ups via GTG principle has resulted not in fatigue but with gains in strength and lat development. Mastering the BB side-press is not easy but you can feel the amount of accessory stabilizers involved from the grip, to the lats and obliques in particular. Also, I have stripped my deadlift right back to the start and ‘re-learnt’ it and feel that my form is now much improved, providing a better base to progress from. My goals at present (medium term) are to pull 400lbs+ deadlift and hit a 110lb BB side-press (one arm), both for 5 reps. I anticipate this will take 2-3 cycles of each and I won’t really be able to implement the routine properly until I get my homegym better equipped, which will be September. However, I shall push on and feed-back as I go with this change of direction.
Well, that’s it for now. Once I am a little more establishedin the routine I shall post some sessions. So, till next time….
