[Antonio]

Ahhh, I know you’re right, I’m sorry you get worried or pissed on some of this questions, but what u often mention is true, personally I don’t trust myself about bodybuilding as much as I trust you, you’re my idol and mentor in bb, so pretty much your words are sacred to me and whenever you answer it gives me peace of mind and keeps me focused because I don’t get distracted since I had your confirmation.

[Antonio]

Do you always do same exercise for chest press or you rotate? I’m thinking about similar thing, there are no good machines at my gym for chest press, literally just one converging flat press, and I don’t know am I missing out on some gains if I just always do the same exercise, if it’s always progressing

[Antonio]

Thanks for a quick one

JP usually recommends chest press, delt press, triceps press, and then later on triceps isolation, I never understood rational behind it, isn’t that much more volume for triceps than chest? Especially since triceps gets hit with basically any elbow extension

[Antonio]

Hello sir,

What do you think about having upper/lower template, like

Upper

Chest press x1-2

Delt press x1-2

….

And for each category have 2-3 exercises and rotate them on a fly?

The reason being is if some machine is taken, or since I can personally progress much better on a chest supported tbar row than on chest supported row seated, would it be okay to do tbar, tbar, seated row, tbar etc. in my upper sessions?

[Antonio]

@Michaela Thanks, by recover you mean the ability to progress each session I assume?

@primitivegymnasium feeling okay, not too tired, I have lower total volume in upper sessions on Fri and Sun, compared to Tuesday since I have one more sleep then. I do SLDL on Wednesday and on Sunday tbar standing row, so I have 2 exercises hitting erectors. Warmups really depend on the day, at the beginning of a session more sets, and later one/two depending on the exercises, the whole session takes me about 1.5h-2h. Does the pushing stuff look okay to you? I put this by following JP recommendations, I’m thinking if it is too much for triceps, and could be a bit more for chest

[Antonio]

Have I just got ghosted or did I set up a perfect routine and there are no comments?

[Antonio]

Thank you all

[Antonio]

@Clare , thanks for your recommendation, that’s exactly what I started implementing, lowered the weight a bit and I’m focusing on breathing through my stomach and keeping my core tight so I don’t overexaggerate lifting chest up, I hope I’ll get better in it soon, would you recommend any exercises I could do outside of sessions? Smth at home

@allisontestuhotmail-fr I ditched out safety bar squats in favor of v squat, thanks for the recommendation!

[Antonio]

Now that you’ve said it, I indeed think it could be that I accumulate fatigue with my squatting patterns so it probably translates to pressing and then because of movement during the lift I get injured. Every time I got injured that rep was near failure and I knew I was not stable, I lost drive from my legs and I hinged on one side!

Do you think that the main reason for injuries in my particular case could be not being symmetrical during a rep? For example, I tend to drive with my left shoulder a bit quicker than with left so my upper back loses tightness.

I’ll definitely watch my leg drive next time, as I totally disregarded it during presses.