What you and a training partner do in competition needn’t be even steven.
You can scale the weight used to make it interesting.
A couple days ago a buddy bowed out of going rep for rep on db c&p with me even though I was at the 75s, telling him to take the 50s when he thought it was an even steven challenge.
“Dude, scaling is fine. I want it to be interesting” I say.
“Dude, I have to be mentally prepared to go face to face with you in training, not now, another time” he said to me.
Yesterday I met, hit it off, and ended up trained with a dude – another dude who my gut instinct, and experience thus far tells me is game.
Gameness is the #1 trait to have in training partner(s).
My buddy who bowed out, I train with him because aside from this one strange exception (you don’t have to want to train what I do 100% of the time) – he’s always game.
The dude last night?
We each banged out a rapid fire 3-4×10 pullups rotating grips each set, then he was game for rep for rep on db c&p.
Fuck the scaling, and fuck the handicap – they’re irrelevant details.
I’m 80-100lbs heavier than the guy, it was scaled me with the pair of 75s, him the 35s, he’d been out of the gym for awhile – the real value is in how we faced each other – I go one, you go one, I go two, you go two, and so on.
1-5-1 pyramid at the end of a fairly long high volume session?
I got immense value from that.
By myself I’d not have done another 25 reps floor to overhead, I’d probably have done 5.
Put in lots of work and it’ll work.
I’m getting to where when I got the Sig Klein challenge it’s not going to be an effort, it’s just something I do daily.
12 reps like that. Right now 5 ain’t a thing in that manner. So 5 becomes 6 becomes 7…and I’ll be doubling the challenge rep count in the near future.
No matter the circumstances 15+ chin ups is baked in. Psychologically it’s powerful to know I’ll hit 30, that 50 is within my sights in my realm of reality.
The potential for greatness is in everyone, individual greatness is all in the positive actions you do, and the negative actions you don’t.
Persistence & Tenacity