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Bodyweight Surprising (for me...) Even Easier Strength progress

Bauer

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During the past few months I have mostly trained LCCJs + Step Ups, with very low volume strength work.

My approach to strength training has been quite simple:
  • Goblet Squats: 3x3 , 2x per week (easy warmup)
  • GUs: 2x1 TGUs, 2x per week (easy warmup)
  • One Arm Pushup regression (OAP): 5-15 reps (total) in sets of 3-5 reps, 2-4x per week
When I started, my OAP regression was a 6 TRM, I haven't tested it since, but over time sets of 5 became reeeeally easy. Due to a lot of stress and sickness I just kept them at maintenance level and never challenged myself for about three months.

Today I tried a more difficult version, a former 2 TRM, and I actually got 8 perfect reps on both sides!

In essence I have done only 20-50 easy reps per week for something like 5 months.

Of course, you might argue that this is really slow progress, but then again this is just a side dish for me, and also easy to recover from. Therefore I didn't expect any type of progress. I credit neural strength + shoulder and trunk stability from LCCJ and Step Ups.
 
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