6/6/22
I’ve been enjoying getting a bicep pump every 5-10 days, in a way doing curls for the girls since as of late I have little investment mentally in actually lifting.
Bryce Lane’s 50/20 sounded too heavy and too long for such a small, generally pump, movement.
Initially I figured 50/5 as 50 reps in 5:00 made more sense on curls.
Pump them up, and it’s not to say I stop at 50 reps either as my last session of them (yesterday – I did some one arm presses followed by sets of 10 on overhead squat today) saw me get a few reps shy of 70 (67) with a distraction in the final seconds keeping me from hitting those 3 reps, but my approach has me now thinking 75 or even 100 reps before I up the curl weight.
The goal can float. The higher the reps before jumping weight the easier the next weight heavier will be.
Bryce Lane’s writing has taught me.
100 in 5:00 is 20 reps a minute, a bit too pump in my eyes, 75 in 5:00 is 15 a minute, a bit more hypertrophy than 10, but not as pump as 20.
Very quickly this is turning to a 75/5 density curling protocol.
I expect and look forward to hitting 115lbs for 50/5 within months/by the end of summer.
It’s reasonable.
I’ll write this again, setting a timer for 2:00 to 20:00, doing one lift, then moving on with your day is a simple way to keep you from quitting lifting, which would be very odd to do as everyone views you as the gym guy despite your spending naught but ≤60:00 a week outside actually lifting a barbell – without any gym membership, or even much motivation to lift.
Of course it’s me, so you never know – the motivation may strike anytime, and then I’ll be outside daily (probably using a one lift a day density training protocol) lifting again.
I’ve got a lot of room to grow on power cleans, whether heave style or crisp style, with or without the press(es), power snatches, and overhead squats.
It’s not unreasonable to turn myself into, effectively crossfit, with a barbell outdoors losing weight to 225 and improving my power snatch and overhead squat for reps to 20×225 to beat that Dan John internet standard of “overhead squat 15 x bw – it makes you one piece, an animal”.
It’d be interesting to see what I deadlift at that point as I’d love to deadlift 600+ at ~230 off of power snatches, power cleans, overhead squats, and the sandbag I should rebuild.
Get a 300lb weight set, look at weightlifting, look at girevoy, buy into density training, and soar!
Persistence & Tenacity