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Yeah I'm getting to the point where it's getting difficult and I'm going to have to change something up in order that I can still ride my bike and enjoy it.
Overall aims were to improve strength (but not get crazy strong) and address lower body muscle imbalances.@Bainbridge yeah basically empty bar! I think deadlift started on 30?
Dropped some weights at xmas but the ones I felt most comfortable on I kept constant after the break.
Red = bodyweight
Green = deadlift
Blue = squat
Grey = bench
Yellow = barbell row
Purple = overhead press
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The lifting is getting hard or cycling is getting hard? I started going to the gym because the evidence indicates that strength work makes for faster cycling. I continued going because I found it much better mentally (and probably physically) than suffering like a dog through shithouse conditions over winter when I'd usually be playing my HTFU cards. These days I'm sick and tired of ruining equipment and spending hour after hour out in the cold and mentally I find the gym different and fun, so a proper off-season activity that's probably not doing much harm.
hippy
I was going to start doing that 5x5 stuff in another gym but they reckon don't do it when you're doing other training. It's too much without the rest days.