re: Pen and Paper Strength App

You gonna be sure as frick lol

I ran Grasshopper followed by arm farm, and saw great results. Definitely increased strength and packed on a few pounds of muscle and lost some fat (at least per an inbody scan). I decided to rerun grasshopper and managed to pull my lower back slightly doing a deadlift. It’s not bad but definitely nagging. I’m not wanting to make it worse so it looks like I’m going to have to put the programs on pause at least for a bit. Does anyone have any recommendations on what to do in the meantime to not lose the progress I’ve made so far?

Yea go to the chiropractor and get back at it. Seriously it will work wonders for you.

Just put your email address

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How are you liking hyper trophy?

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I think it’s the perfect off season type program. It checks all the boxes. High volume/ low intensity but by week 4 you start touching 80%. Lots of bi/tris. I could definitely see this as a program you run 2-3 times then a month of higher intensity program.

ETA: one thing to mention, the deadlifts aren’t easy. Have you noticed that? It’s only deadlifts once per week with a variation the other day but still, damn. I definitely wouldn’t use an overinflated TM

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Any recommendations on where to go from here.

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Depends on your goals. If you’re like me and only interested in your SBD total, I would do hypertrophy for 2 cycles and a cycle of brickhouse or silverback/strongville if you want to stay 4 days a week. LSU may chime in, he’s definitely the expert

What’s your goals right now? If it’s upper body pick a upper body program and get after it. I suggest pool season 2, elbow meat, one of the bench programs, arm farm or filling out the hoodie 1&2

Look forward to your review. My bench has always lagged behind the other main lifts and I’m hoping to add 15-20lbs

ETA: was planning on running it in January

Wow, can't believe I just read 47 pages about people talking about different lifting plans....

I'm planning on starting my first plan most likely in Jan. I want to stay true to the plan and don't have confidence I can do that with multiple long road trips between now and then. I'm going to stick with my current LP schedule until then; I'm not stopping anything or taking a break.

Based on feedback, I bought Grasshopper over the weekend and have been looking over the plan to get an idea of the lifts and exercises. I plan on trying a few of the lifts before hand to get acquainted with them and try and figure out what weights to start with.

1.) So to stay true to the plan the warm up, big 4, and cardio should all be preformed during the same session?
2.) A superset is exercise A, immediately into exercise B, then a rest? (Do this however many sets the plan shows)
3.) Rests should stick to 2-2.5 min between sets and not any lower? Concerned I may run out of time and not get everything into a single session.
4.) Items that do not have a % of max listed, do you just go with a weight you can hit the reps with? When a lift has multiple sets listed does this generally stay the same or go up/down for the additional sets?

I'm sure I'll have additional questions and that I'm making this overly complicated. Just want to make sure I'm doing it right and not cheating myself.