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hoping for a serious input from some kindred spirits
I’ve been lifting for some 15 years now. Never was /wanted to be a pro or stand on a stage. And I always stayed clean. Kinda.
In the first years all came easy, although you think you know what you are doing, you actually don’t, but luckily almost everything makes you grow. After several years you reach a point where you no longer make steady gains. You tweak some things here and there and still make small changes to your appearance, but all in all everything stays around the same level.
I’ve must have, as many of you will have, read a zillion pages of articles on training and nutrition, up until the point where you can’t, as we say in Dutch, no longer see the trees through the forest. I’ve learned a lot, but also encountered tons of conflicting information.
I’ve kept going all those years, hoping to find that one routine that will change your live (and appearance), but I never did. You fiddle around with stuff like training to failure, drop sets, negatives, rest/pauses, and the likes.
With these things I’ve always ‘felt’ like I was training hard and I was always somewhat sore the next day. But in the long run none of these things gave me a major plateau bust.
It was always fun running around in a gym, and to keep it even more fun, I changed gyms quite often. You go from equipment to equipment and always train as hard as you (think) you can.
Then I became a father and the gym became no longer an option. So I decided to invest in a decent home gym, so that I wouldn’t get bored to easily or be to limited in exercises.
In the first few months I was so tired I was glad to do whatever it was that I did.
Then it was time to change routines and get back to business. I found this mass generator training system. Pre-exhaust first ,then go as heavy as you can, than, without rest, lower and lower the weight until you can’t any longer lift a single rep.
I was quite okay for a few weeks but then I found it was really exhausting and I my strength gains rapidly came to a halt.
So again I was looking for a new routine. I accidently came by this routine called 5x5 stronglift. I didn’t even want to read the 200+ pages of this guy’s report and had serious questions with doing no separate exercises for arms and stuff and starting out a 45% of my rep max.
So I started thinking. Why can we sent drones to mars , but can no one simply tell me exactly what training routine will keep me growing until I reach my natural limits.
I don’t feel working out anymore until I find a new direction or challenge.
So how do you cope with this? What do you guys do when you feel everything is the same year in and out. What’s the best way to bust a plateau. What are the best tips and tricks to keep at it?
I’ve been lifting for some 15 years now. Never was /wanted to be a pro or stand on a stage. And I always stayed clean. Kinda.
In the first years all came easy, although you think you know what you are doing, you actually don’t, but luckily almost everything makes you grow. After several years you reach a point where you no longer make steady gains. You tweak some things here and there and still make small changes to your appearance, but all in all everything stays around the same level.
I’ve must have, as many of you will have, read a zillion pages of articles on training and nutrition, up until the point where you can’t, as we say in Dutch, no longer see the trees through the forest. I’ve learned a lot, but also encountered tons of conflicting information.
I’ve kept going all those years, hoping to find that one routine that will change your live (and appearance), but I never did. You fiddle around with stuff like training to failure, drop sets, negatives, rest/pauses, and the likes.
With these things I’ve always ‘felt’ like I was training hard and I was always somewhat sore the next day. But in the long run none of these things gave me a major plateau bust.
It was always fun running around in a gym, and to keep it even more fun, I changed gyms quite often. You go from equipment to equipment and always train as hard as you (think) you can.
Then I became a father and the gym became no longer an option. So I decided to invest in a decent home gym, so that I wouldn’t get bored to easily or be to limited in exercises.
In the first few months I was so tired I was glad to do whatever it was that I did.
Then it was time to change routines and get back to business. I found this mass generator training system. Pre-exhaust first ,then go as heavy as you can, than, without rest, lower and lower the weight until you can’t any longer lift a single rep.
I was quite okay for a few weeks but then I found it was really exhausting and I my strength gains rapidly came to a halt.
So again I was looking for a new routine. I accidently came by this routine called 5x5 stronglift. I didn’t even want to read the 200+ pages of this guy’s report and had serious questions with doing no separate exercises for arms and stuff and starting out a 45% of my rep max.
So I started thinking. Why can we sent drones to mars , but can no one simply tell me exactly what training routine will keep me growing until I reach my natural limits.
I don’t feel working out anymore until I find a new direction or challenge.
So how do you cope with this? What do you guys do when you feel everything is the same year in and out. What’s the best way to bust a plateau. What are the best tips and tricks to keep at it?
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