u/Inevitable_Sea1176

I find myself crazy loving gym these days. It's like gym is more than a hobby but a lifestyle I am inseparable from. I love training. I spend 2 hrs plus in the gym. But that's because I rest for 2 mins between sets, and 5 mins between workouts. Either way, I have never felt tired to quit working out. I always leave because of time. And I fucking train hard. And balances between the heavy and medium weights.

I have been seeing good progress on my body since I started working out 3 months ago. This has been my split program PPL training 5 days a week 2 hrs each.

Mon: Chest, shoulder, triceps (inclined barbell, declined Barbel, inclined dubbel, dubbel chest fly, flat bench press; standing Barbel overhead press, seated lateral raises, standing lateral raises, cable lateral raises, shrugs,; triceps kickbacks, tricep seated ez barbell overpress, single arm dumbbell over press, cable push down).

Tue: Legs. ( 5 sets of 8 for 60kgs currently, and sometimes 4 sets of 3-5 for 70kgs, walking lunches (now thinking of adding Bulgarian split squat), sumo squats ( now thinking of adding goblet squat), leg extension, lying hamstring curl,

Wed: Back and Biceps ( Deadlift 4 sets of 100 kgs currently, barbell bent over raw 25 kgs, lat pull down,; Ez barbell hammer curls 10-15 kgs, dubbel barbel hammer curls, reverse dubbel dubbel hammer curls, concentrated curls, partly preacher curls).

Thur: Chest, Shoulder, triceps ( repeat on Mon, but 3 sets in every workout instead of 4, all heavy).

Fri: Legs, Back, and biceps ( all 3 sets, all heavy).

Saturday, Sunday, are for rest.

Trains 2+ hrs daily. 2 mins between sets, 5 mins between workouts. Always leave gym smiling but feeling the progress. I think I have a lot of strength or my body has adapted to 2hrs plus training since my first day in the gym..

Diet: I eat only proteins. Fatty red meat (goat meat), boiled/scrambled eggs 10 plus eggs daily, and occasionally goat liver.

I started fasted training two weeks ago and never felt powerful and energetic like this. I do OMAD, one meal a day!

I walk on treadmill 10 mins before starting working out

34 yo currently

So ever since I started training 7 weeks now, I have never heard my trainer mentioning I train to failure. All he is concerned with is reps, and his reps ranges between 12-15 whether with light or heavier weights. In fact, it's me who once told him "have lifted till failure at 8th rep) in one of the workouts, but ignored it and instead insisted he supports me to 12th rep. How effective is when someone gives you support for the last 5 reps when you have exhausted all the energy reps in tank and hit failure at 10th rep? So sometimes I would add weight to do less reps between 3-6, but that's not in his vocabulary 😸.

Also, last week when I told him I'm deloading, training lighter weights or reducing number of sets by half and not reaching failure, he seemed not to understand what deloading means and had to explain to him, but still he did not get it. I ended up doing half sets, (2 sets for every workout) but with high reps till failure, when he insisted.

He also let me do dips without weights,lol. How effective is weightless dips? Asked him and he said no need for weights.

Don't get me wrong, he is a competent couch. But my point is that don't just rely on your trainer. Advance your knowledge outside. Like I have learned a lot from this sub.