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I may have been knocked down, but I am never out. I will need more than two weeks to see how helpful this additional work is, but I expect that I will be in much better shape when I return to the platform. If I did each exercise on it’s own, it would take me at least 30 minutes. I do three rounds, and this takes me 10-15 minutes. Instead of doing your exercises one at a time, you do them in rounds and take a break in between rounds. I also am doing Pavel’s Simple and Sinister, and I started using giant sets in my training.Ī giant set, is basically a short circuit. I started running again, 3 days a week, 20-30 minutes at a time, nothing too crazy, but I’m improving quickly. What am I doing to fix my lack of conditioning?Ī few things. This will give you more free time and will make it easier for you to recover from your workouts. If, however, you improve your conditioning, such that you can do 15 sets in the same hour, then you can increase your training volume without adding more workout days. If you ever need more than 12 sets to improve, you will have to work out more days each week. In that time, you can only do 12 work sets. Let’s say you have an hour to workout before you go to work in the morning. Any goal will be easier to achieve if you have good conditioning. Your goal can be to get stronger, get bigger, get leaner, doesn’t matter. Why should the Average Person care about conditioning? Photo by Matthew LeJune on Unsplash I can’t count on that break to be there every time, so I need to make conditioning work a priority. I did much better on the deadlift, but that’s because there was a 30 minute break between the bench and the deadlift. Mine, however, was so bad that 5-10 minutes was not enough time for me to recover. ![]() You have 5-10 minutes between each attempt, so your conditioning doesn’t have to be that good. ![]() In powerlifting, you have to do each lift three times. The goal is to get your heart rate up, again and again, so that over time, you adapt, and the work is not so strenuous anymore. It could be running, pushing a sled, using a rower, etc. ![]() What is conditioning? It is just training to be fit. My second attempts were both weights I had hit before, several times, but my conditioning was terrible, and it showed. I only went 1/3 for my squat and for my bench, and it wasn’t a strength issue. On paper, it was my second best showing (by Wilks), but in reality, it was roughest. Two weeks ago, I competed in my fourth powerlifting, my first in the 72kg weight class.
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