Lol it's like hes confessing to a murder. Makes me chuckle

nothing is truly really a screw up when you have squatted 1604 days in a row honestly

You’ve demonstrated the effectiveness of carries to challenge the CNS. Best wishes figuring out what to do with it. 14! Let’s go, Champ! Cheers!

Charge to experience, boss. Sometimes we only learn through trying and having experience. At least we now know what to avoid for next time.

Your back is looking thick Ivan.

Boss Hoss...still remember when you rocked the ben wallace pistons jersey and u earnt a fan for life

much respect, keep going

No worries man, sometimes the only way to learn is the hard way. I'm just happy you're still healthy. You will learn , look back at this, and chuckle. 👊🏽

I know what you are feeling Ivan, i was focusing on squats aswell lately, and as soon as i started doing way too much of bench and other stuff, it killed my recovery. Failed 2 sessions in a row and it feels like shit, but recover and go again.

Hi Ivan. Carries (farmers) are bloomin brutal pal! Definitely not a warm up movement! A major movement in a session or a good finisher! Can't wait to see you hit the 20 reps pal. And recovery is as serious as the effort required when training. Well done pal.

I have occasional odd days feeling like jelly too, for no obvious reason. Usually assume my body is fighting a bug. Your work rate is already phenomenal man. Best action is just have a total rest day. Be patient!

At least I can count this high.

I too had a sub par squat day yesterday. I was supposed to hit 405 lbs 3 x 3. I baaaarely got I set for 3 and it would have been stupid to try for more, so I backed off and settled for 365. It had been over 8 months that I hit every rep that was prescribed up to this point. This is why fellas get on PEDs. Ah well, I’ll try again next week.

Don’t feel too bad. It happens. This past Thursday I did hack squats for a set of 8, 10, and 12. Then I went to deficit deadlifts. I struggled to do a set of 12 with a laughable 58%. So against my better judgment I went to the gym 24 hours later and did some trap bar deadlifts. I managed to do 3 doubles at 88, 92, and 90%. Whew! I proved to myself that I didn’t lose any strength. So I was satisfied. But today mowing my lawn I felt like a 90 year old man my lower back is bloody tired. So yeah, I need to start training smarter. Lol I really am a wing it guy and it’s clearly not going too well.

Bruh, I have a similar conclusion about exercises involving grip. I did heavy grippers a day before a bench press session, I was totally disappointed on bench press day. 😂 The heavy grippers messed me up - it's a CNS thing I guess. I totally underestimated its effect on me. Never ever gonna do heavy grippers a day before a heavy bench or squat session again.

Noti gang

could be compounding fatigue from RPE 11 AMRAPS every 3 days

That feeling when your second rep is already a grinder and you know that's that 💀 Yeah whenever I move around heavy dumbbells to use/rerack them, I feel everything from traps to calves and obviously core. Not a good thing to do before squat!

man you're starting to look like a soldier from back. I've never noticed that before.

heres a fun idea, get a dynamometer so you can try it before every session so you can in a way log where your CNS is at with hard data.

I mentioned it a few days ago, but might have been too late to see. Look up "behind the back barbell rear delt raise". It's kind of like a reverse drag curl. At the top of the movement your upper arm and shoulders are in a similar position to the squat, so you can train that shoulder and elbow position, but with way less weight, so probably not going to wipe you out too easily.

You felt truee cns fatigue crazy

algoooo ivan

Upper back looking solid

It's a conundrum. Consistency is boring but it yields results. New stuff is fun, but inconsistent and detrimental to progress on the bar.

Dr Mike always recommends warming up with the movement itself, I’ve found this helpful too. Something like 12 reps with a weight you could squat 30 reps of. 8 reps with a slightly heavier weight, then another 4 reps slightly heavier than that before going to the working weight. Primes the body to push in the desired direction! Hate having a bad day but you’ll be back again for the next AMRAP no problem 👍

First time tuning in, subbed... Is that an Evo?

80kg shouldn't do jack but activate. It's good you get new stimulus (160kg) from the farmers, was about time anyway. The amount of times I have PR'd my squat after already training for 1,5 h should be a firm round ZERO if 80 kg farmers was catabolic embodiment :D Just an off day, it happens! There always tends to be a very shit session before a very good one. Just for my own curiosity from my own logs: 10x2 Snatch up to 80% 8x(1+1) Power clean + jerk up to 80% Sn pulls 6x2 @ 90-100% Cl pulls 6x2 @ 90-100% Back squat 6x3 85-90%, PR 5 on last set. Accessories: pullups, dips, abs, jumps That's already 75 reps deep before the PR. Average rest time 3 minutes. Ahh damn I miss proper weightlifting training...

Farmers carries could have influenced this, but this might have just been an off day regardless. I sometimes walk into the gym feeling amazing, but the weight feels heavy when I get under it, and vice versa. We humans always try to find the cause for everything, but sometimes it's just a compounding of so many factors that it's impossible to keep track of them all.

Interesting that zero range of motion can take all your strength. But in other hand it is just long isometric for the legs and muscles are stronger in isometrics than in concentric so it makes sense that when you go hard in isometrics the muscles are completely spent

It's time for a 4th day perhaps

Farmers separately or after main lift. They will kill you. :D

Hey Ivan! Have you ever followed a strict powerlifting program/periodization?

Ivan my man your journey is inspiring. I have to say you look really tired at the moment with some blackness around your eyes almost like you've been in a fight. With all due respect bro! How about 2 weeks of alot of sleeping, relaxing with the family at a little house by a lake or something? :) Maybe just some daily bodyweights squats near the water so we can also enjoy the scenery (and the streak can continue that way;) Take care man

I like my approach of hypertrophy training because I know that I am always able to make progress close to my max potential. Even if some muscles are fatigued, I can do maybe just one set, and these things will compound. Though getting the all muscles to failure or close with every set is ideal.

Does this not indicate a good amount of carry over? Would be interesting to see if just carrying weight would lead to a bigger squat better than just squatting does.

Kid you not on my bench my top set goals 10 two before my last or three benches i hit it for three when pr was 7 lol man that’s unbelievable we both had that happen but hey broke 81/2 at failure u got this just rest and recover

Strong as a Siberian Ox. I think it's time to start DEADLIFTING. Then return to the goal if 180kg x 20.

I don't think the issue is your legs. I think you've overwhelmed with axial fatigue. Weak/tired mid section will make the legs feel weak by proxy.

Would you squat 2x/week if you thought it would make your squat and life better?

Dan John said concerning farmers walks: Do these heavy enough and there won’t be a part of your body that won’t have an opinion about what you just did. (Or something to that effect.)

Loaded carries are going to tax the CNS and hips A LOT. Of course your knees feel weak. Get some rest.

CNS toast

What are your thoughts on accommodating resistance? Also adding reps is much harder then weight. 12 to 13 is an 8% increase compared to 5kg which is like 2%. Why not add 2.5-5 kgs to the bar for a few sessions for 8-10 reps then come back and retry 180 AMRAP

Farmers carries is too much work because of your body moving through space bro, I would recommend targeting the upper back with only few sets of cheat shrugs

Body is tired, what can you do

You're probably right that it's the farmer carries, still a bit early to blame it all on that though. You could have a pre-symptomatic virus

Why don’t you do a set of heavy pin squats before your AMRAP. You had great success with them before when you had a long streak of hitting 200kg everyday …. Back then you wasn’t as strong either . The pin squats will switch you on big time , they’ll potentiate the AMRAP set much better than farmers walk/ carries

I would have thought. want to know why ? because you killed your upper back 2 days ago with RPE13 crippling squats :D

Low Bar?

I bet that after a couple weeks of incorporating farmers that it will pay off big time! So you got 3 reps today so what. After a few weeks it’ll be like vavoom! Haha

Relax until the next amrap day and then smash it

mercury retrograde brother. things are happening to all of us....even the SIKA strength boys have had things going on [ Fitz - rhabdo illness - Fridge intense life event ] ....some more severe for others etc. ends tmro with the full moon i think.

According to Mitch Hooper, throb of the coach of a good athlete is to hold them back. Take 180 x3 as a good thing, next time 180 x 4 and stop, then 180 x 5. Just add a rep, maybe once a week, and top out at a PR weeks from now. Then drop down to 4 reps and repeat the process. I doubt you will listen but at some point I think you will need to take this slow burn approach.

Stop beating yourself up. Its fatigue. Rest up and come back another day. You're literally doing supersquats which is incredibly taxing

The set was never going to be great as you are fatigued but that second rep, you lost tightness and dipped too low, really threw you off.