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Back tends to the hardest muscle group for a lot of people. For one, there are just a ton of different, synergistic muscles back there. It's also often harder for guys to visualize and get a good...

In the short term, it doesn't matter--do what you enjoy best, though working in a new rep range after some time off can be motivating, because you get new PRs by virtue of trying something new. In...

Individual response to training volume is (likely) a bell-shaped curve. As volume increases you should expect to see more adaptation--until you hit a certain point at which adaptation slows and...

If you're doing the oly lifts and loving them, keep doing them! That's great.

Since you say you're not very good at them, you're probably mostly doing technique work, and the weights are likely...

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Unless you're insanely gifted, vastly underweight, or an off-season athlete, linear progressions are trash for any serious length of time. Try other programs, learn to program, and stop...

It's always best to train in a variety of rep ranges. You should experiment and see what gives you the best feel, both in terms of your joints and the pump. Effort and progression over time is they,...

You've definitely got some muscle on your frame, I can see clear shape in your delts and bis. But as others have said, it's about how you feel. At 5'6" and 138, you've still got a lot of mass you...

Barbell Medicine is a great resource, and my recommendation is informed by their thinking. You to want to try two, separate but related tactics:

1) Find pain-free movements that work the target...

Yeah man, Filmbuff's got it. You need a deload. Only other thing I'd add: when you resume after the deload, don't start at your max working weight. If you were doing 5x5 195, start with 5x5 185 and...

If you feel like the upper days are too taxing (and it looks like a lot), you could consider swapping some barbell movements for machine movements. The best solution would be to employ a six-day...

It's hard to assess without more info. You wrote "I even started warming up"--you should always be warming up and working up slowly to your top sets. What's your form like, do you have any videos? Is...