Just not feeling it today.
But you go anyways.
No idea what it is… just woke up, had zero desire to do anything — even go back to bed. Did not want to lift, but figured I’d feel better after I started squatting. Sure enough I did feel better, but then I wanted the bag the rest of the session. No, can’t do that.
The session itself went well. Everything does feel stronger, progressing. It’s all good. I just feel “blah” today.
On split squats, the progression there was to take a wider/longer stance, so my feet were further apart. That ups things, plus it added more to the stretch in the bottom position. That was painful. 🙂
I am thinking about next week tho and looking forward to it. The progression changes to start to prime things for the strength phase. That should be excellent. 🙂
Based upon Paul Carter’s Inception program
Week 4
- Squats
- bar x 5
- bar x 5
- 95 x 5
- 135 x 3
- 155 x 1
- 185 x 5
- 185 x 5
- 185 x 5
- 185 x 5
- 185 x 5
- Pause Split Squats (rear leg on bench)
- BW x 12
- BW x 12
- BW x 12
- BW x 12
- Leg Press
- 115 x 20
- 165 x 20
- 215 x 20
- 255 x 18
- Standing Calf Raises
- 40 x 20
- 40 x 20
- 40 x 15
- 40 x 15
Stuff From Hsoi 
Are you eating to gain mass or to lose fat?
Right now, massing.
I’ve been working with Renaissance Periodization for the past 16+ months.
I saw the progress, looking good. Thumbs up for that. What are your thoughts that there are no deadlifts in this program?
Paul speaks to the lack of deadlifts in Inception (in the eBook) — it’s intentional, and I agree with his reasons given his goal and intent of the program.
It’s also fine for me personally. Given my knee issues, deadlifting is unfortunately something I cannot do too much of — just too much culmulative abuse. I love deadlifting and hate not deadlifting, but I’m OK with it. For the purposes of the program, why I’m doing it, etc. it’s fine.
That said, once I finish a full cycle of Inception, I’m intending to do a Strong-15 Short Cycle, which will have deadlifting.