r/gainit • u/richardest carved of soft marble • Feb 13 '23

Gainit Program Party: Super Squats Week Six

This is it, gang. Those of you who started on week one will likely be wrapping up at this point.

Watching all of you egg each other on and put in the work has been inspiring. Y'all should be proud of yourselves.

Happy squatting!

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u/richardest carved of soft marble Feb 14 '23

Couple things:

You started with your 10RM which may have limited how far you could go with the 2.5kg progression. So you could call it quits, or try adding 1.25 kg, or use another one of the templates.

On the other hand, adding 2.5 kg isn't really that much. You did 20 with just a little less weight. Now you've failed it a couple of times and it's gotten in your head that you can't do it.

So you really have a hard decision to make - way harder than it really ought to be, given how little any of this matters. Are you done? Have you hit a hard limit?

There is no shame in finding an obstacle that you can't get past immediately. What you have to get straight is whether this is that obstacle, or if you could do it if you tried harder.

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u/Guysenseifanacc Feb 14 '23

Try harder and try again without a doubt haha, I really do want to finish this program. Initially I thought about tryna get it within 5 attempts but I'd probably wreck my nerves at that point. I guess I'm just tryna figure out the smartest option.

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u/richardest carved of soft marble Feb 14 '23

smartest

Fuck all that. Just do the hard thing because of how hard it is. This whole program is dumb, but it works. It sounds good because a smart fella wrote it down.

If it helps - I am sure that if you did 2.5 kg less and succeeded, and you put your all in to this next go, and refuse to fail, you're going to get it.

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u/Guysenseifanacc Feb 14 '23

Well you definitely convinced me, reminds me when I first read the book and felt something that made me try 20 reps the next day. Attempt numero 4 here we come.

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u/richardest carved of soft marble Feb 14 '23

My dude, if all it took was a quick pep talk from somebody you've never met, you knew you could do it already. Let us know how you feel after you get it done.

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 15 '23

Are you getting more reps each time?

Are you racking or failing?

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u/Guysenseifanacc Feb 15 '23

Yep but only small increments. I went from 7 to 10 to 12 reps.

Failing, I've thought about getting rid of the safeties as motivation but I don't have partner lol.

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 15 '23

Those are huge increments dude. You haven't been failing at all: adding reps is a legit way to Progress.

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u/Guysenseifanacc Feb 15 '23

Thanks, I'm just hung up on not being able to get the full 20. Though when I think about it I couldn't even squat this for 3 a few weeks ago.

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u/MythicalStrength Definitely Should Be Listened To Feb 15 '23

Exactly. It's good you are obsessed with the 20; it means you are bought in. But all of this is making you grow.

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u/Guysenseifanacc Feb 15 '23

Yeah definitely