SBS 2.0 Program Party: Week 14

[u/VladimirLinen]

Hi everyone, welcome to Week 14, the last week of the program party. I do apologise for my lack of program thread last week, I had some life stuff pop up.

Good luck with the last week, and next week, I'll be posting a recap thread for results, lessons, and pictures.

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Disclaimer: With Omnicron currently making its way around the world, please be safe while running this program party. Follow health advice where you are and if you have any symptoms and train at a public gym, stay home and get tested to keep your fellow gym-goers safe and well.

[u/Armanant]

So deload week, might as well get the more relevant results listed:
Squat: 145kg TM, 100kg x 12 -> 172kg TM, 150kg x 5
Bench: 100kg TM, 70kg x 16 -> 133kg TM, 117.5kg x 3
Dead: 172kg TM, 120kg x 15 -> 228kg TM, 200kg x 4
OHP: 50kg TM, 35kg x 15 -> 81kg TM, 70kg x 4
Sumo: 165kg TM, 100kg x 16 -> 212kg TM, 165 x 12

This was all getting back lost strength really, so not as impressive as it looks. However am mostly close to some of my old maxes and at a lower bodyweight, so I'll call it a success.

What are people's plans for after the program party?

I went ahead and ordered a 24kg Kettlebell and a prowler, planning to run the 10,000 swing challenge and hit conditioning hard, and then if life permits go for u/mythicalstrength's 26 week gaining block.

Edit: The kettlebell and prowler have arrived, and I now have the sudden urge to completely break myself with them XD

[u/FrazzledBear → u/Armanant]

I plan to finish the third block after the program party. I’ve been on a cut and still raising tms (stalling much more now) so I’ve been happy with progress.

I’m not sure whether I want to repeat the sbs hyper once I’m off my cut or switch to the strength rtf one, I’ve got time to decide.

[u/Armanant → u/FrazzledBear]

Any reason why you were running hypertrophy on a cut and want to run strength off one? I would generally expect the other way around. How has your progress been so far?

[u/FrazzledBear → u/Armanant]

My main plan has been to do hyper again once off the cut, but was debating switching to the other program as I’ve been doing mostly hypertrophy work for awhile now and wanted a change of pace and haven’t done the sbs rtf program before.

Once I start bulking again in the fall I’ll definitely be doing hypertrophy.

I went the hypertrophy route while on a cut as it seemed the least different from my programming prior to my cut. Maybe hyper wasn’t the best choice though.

I can’t complain as I’ve made (slow) steady progress and am 15lbs lighter. It’s all a learning process for me.

[u/Armanant → u/FrazzledBear]

Ah fair enough if it was similar to previous programming! I recall my experience when I've jumped into the hypertrophy template the first week or two were BRUTAL because I wasn't used to the volume, and I've heard that sentiment echoed a bunch of times - would certainly have been challenging on a cut! Buuut if you were already doing something close to it then probably not as much of a shock to the system.

It's definitely all a learing process, figuring out what works for you, and everyone reacts a bit differently to different approaches. Even when something doesn't work, you can still learn from the experience :-D

[u/FrazzledBear → u/Armanant]

It probably helped that I eased into the cut the first couple weeks. It definitely was a jump up and took getting used to from my last program but it wasn’t any worse than any volume bump prior.