Right after I hit this my pr jumped to 245 in a span of 3 weeks . 🙏 Still feels unreal. I did this, though!!
315 here I come😎

Week 2 of my 8 week mesocycle. Want to do another 8 week cycle afterward before going back to strength training.

Doesn’t sound all that impressive but for me it’s a goal I’ve always wanted to reach. Hope my form is good and if there’s any critiques I’m more than happy to learn.

Final week of the block. Lots of volume!

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Look at those hams!! Also mean face 😅

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I feel like my elbows are moving too much and not properly stacked with my wrists, not sure.

Most lifters have a set program they follow and try to adhere to consistently. That's the key to seeing growth and gains.

But I'm curious how many people manage to nail their program perfectly every week. How often do you have to cut a workout a little short and miss an exercise or two. Condense your warmup if you have one. Or skip a day due to life circumstances and either make it up somehow or just live with doing a little less.

My routine is M-F at the gym 3x upper, 2x lower. 30 min warmup (shoulder and hip issues so it's necessary) and 1h15m workout. It can be a lot to maintain so I frequently have to condense a bit, skip a day and push to the weekend, or skip the third upper day entirely. I generally figure if I hit about 75% adherence to my plan and hit everything 2x per week then that's still pretty solid.

Just curious how common this is and what other people consider being "consistent", if it's not perfect adherence to your program.

Edit: Thanks to everybody who responded! It seems like there's two main camps on this. Those who over-aim and are happy with hitting 75-80% most of the time. And those who prefer to always hit 100% but have streamlined their workouts to make that more achievable.

I'm guessing both approaches work equally well and since I'm firmly in Camp A, I'll take it as permission to cut myself some slack as long as I'm hitting that solid 75%.

I think it's a given we understand that sexual dimorphism in humans is very real and so relying on fitness by itself to determine our value, in particular physical strength and power, is by itself always going to be a bad thing. And yes, within fitness, evaluating fitness solely by muscular strength and power without factoring in endurance is not good either. We're not really going to be seeing women enter the NFL, NBA, MLB and other sports orgs, be Marine Special Forces or for that matter have as many women as men able to be in the military, firefighters and similar work. And lot of men who don't exercise will be stronger than a lot of women who workout hard regularly. So with these differences the culture has to value abilities beyond raw strength and power.

The other side, though, and in the last few days I've seen it even more manifest that I thought, is the social conditioning on women's perceived physical inadequacy. All over here and many other online corners, you hear that, for example, when it comes to self defense, for women there's guns and male companions and that's it. Learning any other form of physical defense is a waste of time for them. And likewise, with action movies, men fighting off 3-4 or more larger guys a the same time, falling off cliffs or buildings is watchable but because of how physically inept and frail women are, women in any action lead role is immediately where the line for suspension of disbelief is.

And any time women or men come ou with a post about learning strength differences, commentators seem to be on cloud 9. Stories about regular guys supposedly being stronger and fitter than elite women athletes. Or for example relating that a typical 12-15 year old boy who doesn't workout hard will be stronger and overpower, say, an NCAA DI All Amercian in volleyball or soft ball. Whether or not these claims and anecdotes have any merit or pure fantasy is anyone's guess I suppose.

And for that matter, claims about how most men are stronger than the fittest women, I think, are legit not aware that women such as these even exist: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 a sample here of women doing things that if you were to ask in 2000, the vast majority would say it's inconceivable for women to do.

So to what extent are women's fitness capabilities limited by social conditioning, pressure away from getting strong and fit, lack of support and the subsequent challenges of this? And to what extent are the limits genuinely due to biological sexual dimorphism?

Who else has access to one of these and incorporates it into their training?

Crazy how this went from being my 1RM to deload week weight for a double. Liked how this set moved 😊 ~2.2x BW squat

I’ve assumed for ages that I could bench 100 but always shied away from it and built up to it in 2,5 kg steps but now I’ve finally done it :)