First off the ridiculousness of these things never gets old for me.
A while back I was up to 4 sets of 10 with 205lbs deadlifting. Not amazing but I was proud of it. Then I pulled a glute muscle and generally my joints aren’t great so I took time to heal and to physically therapy. Been starting back slow and keep getting delayed cause work and life but I’m slowly working back up to it. Everything took a hit and weights been reduced across the board but I’m not gonna let myself get discouraged. Some progress better than no progress.
What are you all working towards? Have a strategy? Want to boast on your gains or vent your frustrations?
I do bench presses, overhead presses, deadlifts, squats, weighted lunges, and curls. Trying to work towards pull ups as well. These will hit over 80% of your muscle groups. I do one full set per week of each lift.working towards 3-4 sets of 10 reps. I find this works best for me for general gains. I alternate weeks for squats and lunges cause my old man knees. Usually do deadlifts and benches on the same day and OHP and lunge/squat when I’m feeling healed. Usually a Monday and Thursday thing. Then curls I just do a few sets on each day. My heaviest dumbbells are some 35lbs I made myself. I need to make some 40s but these have been fine to keep my biceps at a good size. Also throw pull up attempts when I’m deadlifting cause the bar is out of the way if my rack. I’m slowing getting close to doing more than one. Lmao.