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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: February 14, 2020, 10:29:22 am »I don't think I could ever go back to a gym without a power rack these days. 100% about the spotters as well. Years ago when I trained at Fitness First (they are now called Goodlife) there were no power racks and whenever I wanted to bench heavy I'd need a spot. Half the time the spotter would assist me when I was trying to grind it out.
so true. it's so nice to have a good bench setup though. the rack im using has safeties but they're not very finely adjustable, there isn't a setting where i can bench and fail safely. im either touching the safeties on reps or the rail is too low to fail safely. in addition to this, the way the rack is setup, you have to take the bar out on an awkward angle and at the top of the rep you can't be exactly 90 deg with the bench because you'll clip the top of the bench pins. it's horrible. and finally the flooring is rubber so not as good as a stiff floor (really good benchers can lift 180kg for reps on rubber but overachieving weakos like me struggle with small details like that).
having said that, i can't help think that for the first 75 days or so i saw the best results and even though i made marginal improvements over the next 75, it was the best time to stop. so maybe i could do THAT. but daily training is hard to modulate .. too easy to dig too deep a hole, i dont mean in what you can do day to day, i mean the long term consequences.