Longest Gaining Phase Ever - Steve & Mike

So I trained.

Yeah, I trained upper.

Well, pretty much every day's upper anyway, because I'm still doing a whole body push pull.

But one thing, because I had a look at your stories before we jumped on the podcast just now, and I saw that you were doing RDLs and that you'd made a bit of a progression, which I thought was so interesting.

Wow.

It was so interesting, though, because literally this time last week, you had that funny episode with the hamstring and it kind of being tingly.

And I thought, ah.

And yeah, so I don't know what you thought.

I was

aware of that had happened, but I didn't feel it on warming up.

So I was just like, I feel good.

I feel strong.

Let's go through this.

But I'm definitely at that.

You know, when you've got...

Like when you've been training as long as we have and you're doing like a lift that you've done a lot and you're pushing to zero RAR, like I know I'm like, I got an extra rep on my last set from last week and from two weeks ago, like I'd been holding the same reps, 11, 10, 9, 11, 10, 9.

And this week I got 11, 10, 10.

I just wanted that rep.

And I think I took it okay.

I think I deserved that repetition.

But sometimes I have to remind myself to just be patient.

It's okay, actually, for weeks on end to just be grooving with a lift, especially something like an RDL, something that's a big compound, lower body lift, like the risk of injury and everything.

It's just not worth trying to take reps that maybe you haven't yet.

so yeah it's just a reminder to me but also i wonder if i might quite like lowering the rep average rep range that i'm in for it i just it was something about going above 10 reps that just started to feel i was like i feel like i could keep going but also i'm like not gassed out i'm just i'd like maybe lower reps with that i also have been finding as i said last week feeling a bit anxious in the gym for whatever reason it's the time when all my thoughts come to my head and i like uh it's not productive i got quite anxious within the set for itself like you know when i don't know you get a bit tingly almost and you get like those just your heart's racing a little bit i was like that i just built it up in my head a little bit so i think that threw me off

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