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Speaking from personal experience yes there is, although I suspect my experience is caused by something I'm doing or not doing which is acting like a ball and chain around my ankles.

The last...

If you are using the building of your former employer to conduct your own business are you paying rent? If not, I am not surprised the manager doesn't like it, would you be happy if someone used your...

I'm trying to imagine 100kg as an attainable goal as it is well above anything I have ever squatted for reps, nor even a 1RM.

Don't sit back before squatting down, go more directly down (watch how a toddler squats). I used to do the sit back and down as if you are sitting in a chair and it just made me lean more forward to...

I had a go at putting a program together using Steve Shaw's YouTube videos as a guide in which he advocated the rep goal method of progression. I cobbled together a full body routine which hit the...

If you really are training to failure I cannot see how you can manage 20 sets in one workout for one bodypart. I wouldn't be able to cope with half that volume.

It is clear there is just as some people have a genetic leg-up. I've never managed to bench press 60kg but some people could do that for reps having never stepped foot in a gym. I know I am dreadful...

Why then do there exist sub 200lb people who can bench, squat and deadlift high numbers?

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Well that is what it means in the context of training.

I can relate to this. When I was trying Steve Shaw's rep goal method of progressive overload, I would squat on each set until I slowed right down around the sticking point, and I thought that failure...

Surely it means doing more than your body is accustomed too or has done before.

For example, if I squat 85 kg for 3x10, then next week I manage 90 kg for 3x10, that is overload because it is more...

It will be virtually impossible for me.

I wish. My gym is decent but even mid to late evening it can be busy. It is a general issue in SE England which continues to grow in population but facilities don't. The previous gym I joined was a...

Nothing to do with isolation. There have always been a significant proportion of selfish/thoughtless people in society. On the one hand, calling them out risks a verbal barrage at best and an assault...

I can't relate to this. I've very rarely seen anyone squat 3 plates or pull 4 plates. I know in my case it will likely take a year to get to 1,2,3 if I am consistent, of course there exist untrained...

Currently I only have a rough estimate of when I am close to failure. I had thought it was at the point when the bar started slowing down significantly, but in the case of squats, I have recently...

Currently I only have a rough estimate of when I am close to failure. I had thought it was at the point when the bar started slowing down significantly, but in the case of squats, I have recently...

I don't see a problem occasionally checking your phone during rest periods. It is not like you are lifting every second you are in the gym. I use the Strong app on my phone to log my workout so I am...

Could you do this in reverse, so start with your heaviest weight and go lighter with each set? That way, you lift the heaviest weight when your muscles are least fatigued, which should enable you to...

Is there not a risk of muscular imbalance over time if you train quads and progressively overload on squats, but do nothing for hamstrings? How about adding Romanian deadlifts?