The Evolution of Training Expectations - Beast Over Burden - #537
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🗓️ 26 March 2024
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Summary
The Evolution of Training Expectations: Managing Your Mindset
PRs measure progress, encourage buy-in and consistency, and help make training fun for novice, intermediate, and early-advanced lifters.
This slows or ends. You want to keep training for the rest of your life, though.
The driving force for keeping you training cannot be PRs. You cannot expect to drive up weight on the bar consistently. Failing programmed reps is not actually failure, in the scheme of your goals to train consistently and grow and maintain strength, vitality, and health over time.
If you are overly wedded to today's workout - if there is a hyper focus on today - you are, really, falling into an exercise (not training) mindset.
Now, it's true that training involves following a plan. But our bodies do not always cooperate - even the best coach in the world cannot perfectly predict your performance that day.
Things need to change.
The Evolution of Training Expectations: Accumulate Hard Sets
Accumulate heavy but doable sets over time. This is the way to build strength and muscle over time.
As you progress, great flexibility will likely need to be built into your program. You will not be able to grind away RPE 9.5-10 sets.
You need to enjoy training. Picking a specific exercise to drive up, as opposed to everything, may make sense.
Focusing on consistency (even if it's one lift a day) can help.
Play with different supplemental lifts and different rep schemes. Take the PRs when they are there, and enjoy them.
You may think about maximizing recovery. It will take longer and longer to get PRs (and one day they will stop).
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Barbell Logic. |
| 0:04.7 | The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength. |
| 0:08.3 | And how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life. |
| 0:15.0 | It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the show. Welcome to the Barbel Logic Podcast. Welcome to Beast Overburden. I'm your |
| 0:37.2 | host Nicki Sims. I'm the CXO and a Strength and Nutrition Coach at |
| 0:40.3 | Barbel Logic. With me is Andrew Jackson. |
| 0:42.8 | Hi Andrew. |
| 0:43.6 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:45.8 | He is the C.O. |
| 0:47.3 | Also a strength and nutrition coach at Barbell Logic. |
| 0:51.1 | And mildly sunburned today. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah, Andrew has this really great. |
| 0:55.0 | It's like a, you know how snoring is like sleep bragging? |
| 0:58.5 | Well, he has this special sunburn that's like ski bragging when it was sunny and now he has a really great |
| 1:06.9 | goggle sun yeah it was an amazing St. Patrick's Day on the mountain. |
| 1:15.0 | We up here in Washington got a ton of powder, |
| 1:19.0 | freakish February, end of February beginning of March after what I thought was going to be one of the worst seasons ever. |
| 1:26.0 | It was saved at the last minute by like two straight weeks of dumping. |
| 1:31.0 | And then it went from high 20s, low 30s, like well below freezing for two weeks on the |
| 1:36.7 | mountain up to almost 60 degrees in two days. |
| 1:42.1 | So it was this perfect bluebird sky slushy but still good base of |
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