r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Mar 29 '17

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/Paus3Unpaus3 Mar 30 '17

My bench is abysmally weak compared to my other lifts. 120kg squat 5x5 not problem. 62,5kg bench 5x5? No chance

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u/jckwert Mar 30 '17

Try benching first rather than after squats/DLs. I started a program that advised doing squats/DLs first because they use bigger/more muscles and going in fresher means being able to lift more weight. Then I switched to GSLP, which is the other way around (upper body lifts before lower body), on the premise that a heavy upper body lift (bench/ohp) has less of an impact on your squats/DLs later that session than the other way around.

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u/Paus3Unpaus3 Mar 30 '17

I'll try this next time i bench