Strength / Weight Training

I may end up with a set of 2.5-22.5 and one of 2-36, so if anyone wants the smaller set for what I paid let me know. That said I’m rather more confident of getting the set form Yukiren than I am from random eBay person.

Ha, no probs. Its manic and just spent 10mins on the phone explaining why we can't deliver and build a bike in their house next week!

Chin up bar on a doorframe kept me sane through lockdown.

Sorted?

When they all arrive?

I got the confirmation email from Power House, which is great. Now I just have to wait - and phone Yukiren every 20 minutes asking if they've been dispatched yet of course.

November is here and I am entering the time of the year when all my good habits fall apart.
I have started to tweak my exercise program to make it feel easier, in the hope that this year I will keep the regular schedule going through to January. I took out a few exercises that I (low key) dread doing, and have taken ∼10% off the top of some of the technically difficult lifts.

But is there an intelligent guide to dialling back your efforts? Surely proper athletes must be facing this dilemma regularly?

If you haven't got any periodization built into your training plan, then that might be something to consider. Most good programmes for intermediate or advanced lifters will use periodization (it is not so necessary for beginners who can get away with a linear increase in weights).

I’ve followed the Juggernaut programme until the pandemic hit. It has a kind of rest week every four weeks, but that’s not really what I am looking for now.
Being confined to home lifting I am kind of improvising in any case.

How about drop to 70% of max and increase your reps and sets for a few weeks. Maybe try German volume training approach for a block of training eg 10 sets x 10 reps of big lifts done at about 60% of your 3rm

Yeah, these periods happen. And they can be seen as mental recovery as well as physical.

Lots of ways to go around it. Actual athletes usually move away from competition movement/efforts/skill practice entirely to freshen things up.

Personally, I like to use new exercises/variations are to automatically lower intensity (not as skilled motor-pattern so less weight can be used). The newness also means you’ll see the weight go up quickly too which is nice if you’ve been grinding away on your usual main lifts. Examples might be pin or front squats. Floor or push press. Opposite stance deadlifts. Paused lifts. Complexes.

Other alternatives are just dropping intensity or volume by set amounts (which you’ve already clocked) or emphasising different parts of your program (Emphasise the secondary movements and cruise on those barbell lifts, not even looking to progress then).

Has anyone got any resistance bands? I'm looking at some of the sets online and I'm just wondering if the £10-15 amazon sets are much worse than the €43 eztoned or £25 anywherefitness ones that I am getting ads for atm.

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Bench, pull up bar, resistance bands- check.

Dumbbells- not yet.

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Not sure I trust this, but it does look solidly made

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I find that the door mounted ones are way too low for me to do pullups (i'm 6'4") so I bought one of these...

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/strength-training-pull-up-bar-100-cm/_/R-p-143810?mc=8353819&c=BLACK

... and mounted it in our hallway...looks like you could do the same?

The hallway is, IIRC, 1.1m wide, so would need a longer one - but yes, in theory.

Same as ours. That model goes up to 120cm

That style of cantilever chinup bar is much better than the other types. Keeps the chinup section a lot higher and allows you to clear the door frame. You've got decent height above the door frame too.

Been using mine for years.
Just make sure that the small hooks are seated correctly at the top of your door frame.

I have much to find out! I'm now watching my inbox alerts like a hawk for the alert from Powerhouse Fitness - I'm to contact their customer service if I don't get said email in ten working days from when I placed my order, which is a week from this coming Monday - I suspect that's going to feel like a long time.

I'm very jealous of your dumbells.

My conventional setup takes up a lot of room and takes forever to change weights. Spin spin spin

But, and this is important, you actually have them.

And equally unused?

Although be aware that they put a lot more force on the frame/wall. Put some nice big cracks in a stud wall with mine.

On the flip side, the expander ones like to split architrave mitres. I’m planning on making something fixes that is hopefully less destructive.

I've got a Gravity Fitness portable pull up rack to go outside which I prefer, but too damp to leave it outside at the moment.

At least there is a sense that it is holding onto something.
Recieved this today, scares me.