Exodus Strength

brkriete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:33 am

James wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 7:07 am They use a mix of RPE and percentages. Like 1@8 then do 5x5 with 70% of e1rm or 5@6,5@7,5@8 repeat @8 with for 2x5.

I know this is just an example but every time I see a "prescription" like the latter it makes my eye twitch. Do people keep a laptop in the gym with Excel open? (to say nothing of the endless questions around "should I adjust weight / rest time / whatever to get the right RPE?").

alek wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:16 pm About the BBM app: can you export your workout to some type of text for logging on obscure the best strength training forums?

JohnHelton wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:53 pm

alek wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:16 pm About the BBM app: can you export your workout to some type of text for logging on obscure the best strength training forums?

Are you thinking about ditching JuggAI for BBM templates?

alek wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:11 pm

JohnHelton wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:53 pm

alek wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:16 pm About the BBM app: can you export your workout to some type of text for logging on obscure the best strength training forums?

Are you thinking about ditching JuggAI for BBM templates?

I’m wavering on using the JuggAI app through to the meet; I skipped all of next week’s deload workouts in the app to see the Peaking Block workouts, and it didn’t seem too inspiring.

But! No, I’m not switching to bbm templates. Their app does allow you to enter your own workouts—and saves them indefinitely—and tracks weight, umbilicus, session rpe, e1rms, etc. over time. I was thinking of using it as my logging apparatus, and I was hoping there was an easy trick to get a presentable session log to post here.

It’s okay if it doesn’t; I’ve been reading off my sessions from the JuggAI app since May.

JohnHelton wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 8:49 am

alek wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:11 pm

JohnHelton wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:53 pm

alek wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:16 pm About the BBM app: can you export your workout to some type of text for logging on obscure the best strength training forums?

Are you thinking about ditching JuggAI for BBM templates?

I’m wavering on using the JuggAI app through to the meet; I skipped all of next week’s deload workouts in the app to see the Peaking Block workouts, and it didn’t seem too inspiring.

But! No, I’m not switching to bbm templates. Their app does allow you to enter your own workouts—and saves them indefinitely—and tracks weight, umbilicus, session rpe, e1rms, etc. over time. I was thinking of using it as my logging apparatus, and I was hoping there was an easy trick to get a presentable session log to post here.

It’s okay if it doesn’t; I’ve been reading off my sessions from the JuggAI app since May.

I use the Strong app for logging. It is really good for that. Easy export too.

brkriete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:33 am

James wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 7:07 am They use a mix of RPE and percentages. Like 1@8 then do 5x5 with 70% of e1rm or 5@6,5@7,5@8 repeat @8 with for 2x5.

I know this is just an example but every time I see a "prescription" like the latter it makes my eye twitch. Do people keep a laptop in the gym with Excel open? (to say nothing of the endless questions around "should I adjust weight / rest time / whatever to get the right RPE?").

perman wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 10:47 am

brkriete wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:33 am

James wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 7:07 am They use a mix of RPE and percentages. Like 1@8 then do 5x5 with 70% of e1rm or 5@6,5@7,5@8 repeat @8 with for 2x5.

I know this is just an example but every time I see a "prescription" like the latter it makes my eye twitch. Do people keep a laptop in the gym with Excel open? (to say nothing of the endless questions around "should I adjust weight / rest time / whatever to get the right RPE?").

Weird necro incoming, but I just finished up building a program builder template (part of the ATS2 bundle). It was 4 MB big, so it's too big to run quickly with data traffic via Google Drive on my phone. So I spent some time now removing unused rows and reduced it to 240 kB. Now it can be used via a shortcut on my home screen on my cell phone with not too much hassle.

It was a pain in the ass to both make the document and make it ready for google drive, but this is a viable solution if you want something plug and play without paying much for it.

This allows me to have strength schemes on squats/deads/bench/pause squats. hypertrophy schemes on rdls/presses, higher reps on db presses, etc.
It profoundly pisses me off when you have a template with something like a secondary squat slot in the spreadsheet, and you choose pause squats cause you don't have access to ssb or belt squats, and you get sets of 8 automatically no matter what. In BBM templates particularly there is a hidden tab called "programming skeleton" that is password protected, and you cannot override moronic set/rep schemes for your chosen assistance exercises.

In an ideal world, the logger apps I've tried would have a user friendly way to create training blocks without too much work. Cause even the program builder lacks certain options. I would like straight RPE-based work for certain exercises for instance, different percentage schemes for other exercises, and something braindead like 3-4 sets of 8-12 for db press variants. This shouldn't be that hard to write yourself in an app IMO.

Allentown wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 1:26 pm What's wrong with sets if 8 pause squats?

janoycresva wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:38 pm my personal favorite BBM program exercise selection + rep scheme combination is 3-0-3 tempo squats for 10s

fuck that shit what a waste of time and effort

DCR wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 6:08 pm

Allentown wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 1:26 pm What's wrong with sets if 8 pause squats?

I’ve been doing them for 5s for a few weeks (and because I’m LPing them, started light to give myself some runway) and have been sore nearly the entire time, sometimes cripplingly so. Usually when I do anything high frequency, the soreness fades after a few sessions. Not happening.

So big no thanks to 8s.

janoycresva wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:38 pm my personal favorite BBM program exercise selection + rep scheme combination is 3-0-3 tempo squats for 10s

fuck that shit what a waste of time and effort

mbasic wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 5:59 am

janoycresva wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:38 pm my personal favorite BBM program exercise selection + rep scheme combination is 3-0-3 tempo squats for 10s

fuck that shit what a waste of time and effort

agreed, that would seem to be just some crossfit type thinking: just see if you can do it, to say you did it.

I don't know what end result, interim adaptation, and/or what that scheme would be setting up something for down the road.

Allentown wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:02 am

DCR wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 6:08 pm

Allentown wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 1:26 pm What's wrong with sets if 8 pause squats?

I’ve been doing them for 5s for a few weeks (and because I’m LPing them, started light to give myself some runway) and have been sore nearly the entire time, sometimes cripplingly so. Usually when I do anything high frequency, the soreness fades after a few sessions. Not happening.

So big no thanks to 8s.

How often did you do exercises with sets >8 reps before that?
I do sets 12-20 reps with some regularity and didn't really have much trouble with the higher rep things on the BBM template I did. Paused squats were only sets of 6 on mine though.

mbasic wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 5:59 am agreed, that would seem to be just some crossfit type thinking: just see if you can do it, to say you did it.

I don't know what end result, interim adaptation, and/or what that scheme would be setting up something for down the road.

janoycresva wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:51 pm Anyone know if they're still doing this in their latest iterations of the program? I would imagine the feedback was near universally negative for these.