There’s also a powerlifter called Vladimir Shmondenko aka Anatoly who looks quite slight but has numerous world records - he often dresses as a cleaner or old fella and goes into gyms where guys are lifting big weights and he basically pranks them. The guys don’t think he can lift the weights as he doesn’t look “hench” but they soon get shown up……
Anatoly videos are so funny, he has a great sense of humour. The look on some of their faces when he does what he does best 
Have you seen the ones where a young girl poses as his daughter and he asks someone to watch her for a couple of minutes and she asks if she can have a go with their bar?
Not into weightlifting at all. But somehow the algo had hit me with these over the past few months and I have very much enjoyed them! I guess more so seeing peacocking alphas being properly humbled! 
Trying out some post swim lifting at the gym machines.
Protocol is go until you can’t
So far;
Lat pull down 55x30kg
3mins
Chest press 20x30kg
…
5mins
Low Row 30x30kg
Any tips on selfies?
….
3mins
35x10kg shoulder press
I like stuff like this.
One of my ten challenges this year is weights based.
50 kg leg press plus plate for 100 reps
Up to 50 recently, 100 would be an ask but see how we go
Like the lat pull down max reps !
Nice !!
Yeah, dont, just dont. Gym selfies are the preserve of the narcissistic and simple minded.
50x8kg bicep curls
Plank 1min15s
Man I used to do three minutes.
That sounds like encouragement! 
bonus points for getting in the ironman t-shirt
Of course !
Managed to pull 140kg on the sledge yesterday. It was really hard and had to stop a couple of times - going back to 120kg felt so much easier . 10kg dumbells feel more normal now too. Really happy with the way my body is getting stronger.
Pull with a rope ( like in hyrox )
Or drag ?
Both hard
That’s some weight
…And now the doms begin. When will I learn?
It’s just weakness leaving the body!
Never. I was sensible for the first session back, then thought nah fuck it, load that bar up.
Walked like John Wayne for a week.
Ha!
I got a day pass to a gym yesterday just to see how busy it was and see if it would be a replacement for the one that closed.
Anyway I did weighted calf raises, leg press, deadlift into shoulder press (so light), nothing crazy but boy did my 2hr bike with 4x 12minutes tempo (3 minute recoveries) feel hard going this morning and this was after my best two nights sleep scores in the the last year. I was feeling great and alert but the muscles were so fatigued 
I feel there is a dichotomy in training at the moment. Everyone loves strength training. Everyone loves careful progressive overload. Fine.
I did a recovery swim. Then upper body to failure.
Actually I did it deliberately to see what would happen (it’s not that bad, I’m exaggerating for effect) but how many athletes are out there worrying about “zone 2” and then deadlifting?
There’s a reckonin’ a comin’, mark ma words…
Curious what’s prompted you moving to high rep low weight?
Hey Chris - no great paradigm shift. Not yet anyway, it’s just one session so far.
I’ve been mulling over recent podcasts/studies/discussions on lifting to failure being beneficial. I’ve been very much convinced by heavy lifting low reps and gradual progression over the years, but as I have some time in hand I just thought I’d give it a go. I suspect when I do leg day that way I’ll sod the whole thing off - but it’s no biggie to experiment in week 2 of ‘25.
Also, I’m aware that I’m naturally really risk averse and sometimes this holds me back from beneficial chance taking.
At the end of the day I do so little strength work nowadays it probably doesn’t matter either way. If there’s a protocol I can find that enhances consistency without impacting triathlon training then I’m up for it.
Fair enough.
My understanding was there was a lot of newer stuff saying low weight is beneficial, but only at best equalling high weight.
Plus that’s going to failure, which is hard to truly do in real life outside of research trials. Eg 50 reps, or 51?
Then I thought low weight was probably still worse outcomes than high weight for true strength (hard to stay given “strength” is usually measured as a 1-5 rep match, so practice what you test) but probably equal for hypertrophy gains.
Useful summary I used for an essay last year
Schoenfeld, B. J., Fisher, J. P., Grgic, J., Haun, C,T., Helms, E T., Phillips, S, M., Steele, J., Vigotsky, A, D. (2021).Resistance Training Recommendations to Maximize Muscle Hypertrophy in an Athletic Population: Position Stand for the IUSCA. International Journal of Strength and Conditioning, 1 (1). ISSN 2634-2235
