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@ngie I’ll give it a shot, thanks. And you should do a light pentathlon just to play with it! It’s surprisingly fun.

@ngie • ⁠What are you working on right now? Pentathlons…lots of pentathlons. • ⁠What’s going well? Volume is increasing every week and feels great! • ⁠What challenges are you running into? Issues with external rotation of my shoulders. I’ve tried damn near everything over the past few...

@hannahmarie313 You can definitely improve press with c&p, but if you can already press greater than 10 reps then sets of 5 or less aren’t particularly stimulating.

@josephhayes One arm

@hannahmarie313 I would probably be happy with the snatch and pullup improvement, I would not be happy with the OHP improvement (especially with the ~5kg weight gain).

@professor Strength doesn’t scale linearly with bodyweight, but I think a general rule of thumb is 1/2 bodyweight press is pretty strong.

@sharita3737 Thanks for putting all of this together, it’s great to see everyone jumping in!

@josephhayes Most of them were from jiu jitsu, so definitely tomfoolery.

@gina7arth I was able to solve this problem by completely shitwrecking my knee multiple times. Now my squats are just as weak as my press 😎

@doulos74 Thanks brother!

@dboruff11 Correct, no rest days. The sub maximal work days still allow for recovery between max effort days. I can also add in one rest day to the microcycle, but I usually use that as a modification when cumulative fatigue begins to build after a few weeks.

@doulos74 I’m built like a very average person. A lot of strength can be built without hypertrophy. Aleksandr Khvostov can snatch the 48kg 50 times, and he’s a little guy!

@hunter101 You know I’ve never really tried for rep maxes with snatch. I can snatch and dead snatch 48kg, but I’ve never snatched 32kg more than 10 reps on a single side before switching hands. I did notice that cleans seem to have very poor crossover from unilateral to bilateral. I cleaned 48kg...

@youngman4god I’ll send you a message.

@youngman4god I took my 2x32kg press from 5RM to 10RM in 4 weeks with daily training. 2/3 of days were sub maximal and 1/3 of the days were max effort. If you’re willing to try it I could write out a week for you.

@hd8e8dx I’ve been trying to work through something similar, and I have a lot of issues with unilateral pressing not making sense. The biggest problem I’ve found centers around the amount of lean required at higher loads. As the kettlebell exceeds a certain percentage of your body weight, you...

@saved_by_grace82 With the clubs and S&S I assumed he was doing those as one workout. S&S isn’t a full workout by itself.

@saved_by_grace82 Volume increase came from BJJ training, not from the workouts. So I kept workouts at 3-4x a week as I ramped from training 5x a week, to daily, to adding two a day practices. Only working out 2x per week makes it difficult to make skill gains as well as S&C gains. If OP...

@inspiringmedia Great work. I don’t think going from 10RM to 15RM in 8 weeks should be a “WTF”, but rather a reasonable expectation for a good program (unless your press is already at a very high level). If you find the Giant boring, you can get similar results with other programming.

@saved_by_grace82 Build volume slowly and it’s not a problem. I’m a black belt in BJJ and competed for years. When I trained for worlds I trained 8-9x a week and still worked out 3-4x a week. Slowly ramp training volume and you’ll be surprised what your body can handle.