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I’ve been on the original PPL @ 5 days a week for the past 8 weeks. Still progressing and making major gains on all lifts.
Same here. PPL A/B (my custom version but built off original) 5x a week for over a year now, still progressing and growing
I’d also suggest reassesing your daily intake and ensure your tracking is accurate; very easy and common to mistrack 100-200 calories a day which could nullify like half your deficit
Great, thank you Bryce. That’s what I realized that some movement to continue blood circulation is important. I’ll just go much lighter than normal and do a lot of extra ankle work before workout + at home. Hopefully will recover soon.
Just a follow-up question. So if this turns out to be solution for proper recovery for my leg days, should this be a short term thing and after a few weeks I should try to add some of the back off sets back into the session?
I’d say stick with less if you still grow and progress. My leg days recover incredibly slow and cannot handle much volume; they’re literally 5 exercises and 2 sets each. Anything more (even 1-2 sets) leaves me sore for 5-7 days. Still growing like crazy and consistently progressively overloading. Don’t feel like you need much volume at all if intensity is maximal
Thank you Joe, perfectly said. I’m so excited to do it and see if I’ll actually enjoy the prep and competing aspect; No point waiting till I’m early to mid 20s and then turns out I don’t even like it. I can’t wait to push my limits and as you said, I chose to do it so if I hate it, I can just stop (no worries, I won’t 😅). Ready to crush it and bring the best I possibly can!
He actually does have the adductor machine in some programs, I personally think it’s a must for everyone who wants bug legs. They are 100% an amazing hypertrophy exercise, as the adductors aren’t sufficiently taxed/trained in things such as squat since the quads/glutes always give out first. Personally like to start every leg day with it (before the leg curls) as I find having warmed up hips helps a ton with safety and feel for bigger movements down the line
Women are faking most things these days, draw one on lol
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Grow a beard just.
Trust me, no chance there haha. Only 18 anyway
Perfect, thank you! That point about noobie gains is something I’ve been wondering about; I technically will be lifting for 4 years in December, but I literally made 10x more progress in this last year alone cause I finally ate enough and did stuff right (first 2.5ish was deficit or maintenance with not much training knowledge or intensity). So although technically I should “run out of noobie gains” soon, I think (and hope😅) I keep pushing for a long long time.
As a 18 year old myself, surrounded (both in person and on social media) by guys my age or even younger, who are clearly on gear, I can wholeheartedly agree with Joe. My generation has 0 patience. The term „delayed gratification” doesn’t exist in their vocabulary. And I will admit, it definitely sucks to see these guys who are 16-20 and look like 28 year old bodybuilders and not feel bad about my physique. But then I realize it’s my own journey to be the best me I can be, I train my ass off and i guess I’m not „taking a shortcut”. plenty of guys on gear still obviously train and live this lifestyle to the maximum, but when it comes to still being a teen and jumping on, I have no respect (unless THE DREAM GOAL is pro bodybuilding from the very start)
I’m curious as to if you’re actually training intensely enough. I’m as passionate about the gym as they come, and mentally rest days are horrible. But physically? 2-3 workouts and I’m DONE. even low volume but to ACTUAL FAILURE is very taxing on the body.
Nope, thats plenty to time digest. If you HAVE to train like 45mins-1h after eating itd probably be better to avoid fats, but 1-2 is great (all depends on your body, how it reacts to the food, etc). Pay attention to your biofeedback👍
Forces you into heavy hip flexion, pretty much impossible make it a quad biased squat (way more glute bias)
Hi Xavier, I am in the same position tbh. Been bulking for around 9-10months. Did you implement any cardio for general health purposes and what kinda training structure/program did you follow for your entire bulking phase?
My cardio has always just been 10k steps a day, +/- 1-2k depending on schedule. Of course I’d recommend actual cardio for heart health but just not something I’m currently doing and my heart rate is very low anyway. I’ve been doing PPL A/B that I made myself (based off setup and exercise selection from Joe’s PPL and Terrences program) A/B is really just there for variety and to prevent progressive overload stagnation which would happen if I did same exact workouts every 4-5 days. I train 5x a week so each week has different # of P,P,L but in the end its even!
