Not much to catch up on here since I changed my routine around slightly. Well, I suppose that in and of itself is something to talk about, eh?
So, basically what I was doing before was a PPL split coupled with a single day of strength work. This is similar to popular templates like PHAT/PHUL with some slight differences - both of those split up the strength work into two days, Upper and Lower body, and PHUL also combines the hypertrophy work into two days (Upper and Lower again). My strength day routine was based on the progression outlined in 5/3/1 which basically means that on your 1 RM test day you do 5 reps at a lower weight, 3 weights at a little heavier, than as many reps as you can at your new weight.
I didn't feel like I was progressing enough using this scheme, likely because I was lacking the rest of the program's strength work and so the amount of reps I was doing wasn't enough. So I switched from that to doing what PHAT/PHUL recommend which is 3-4 sets of 3-5 reps. I started off with 4 sets of 3 reps on Monday, and for progression I was thinking I'd do this:
1. 4 sets of 3 reps
2. Repeat if fail, otherwise:
3. 4 sets of 4 reps
4. Repeat if fail, otherwise:
4. Add weight, start back at #1
Hopefully that helps me get stronger!
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