u/esaul17

I just finished week 2 of Smolov Jr with 270 lbs x 10 x 3. By the end of the sets I was resting 12+ minutes and my final rep of the final set had a 6+ second concentric.

I used a true tested 1RM of 315lbs I hit at the cumulative of a bench every day run following the protocol on a Zourdos study. I only did +5lbs for week 2 vs week 1 as I didn’t think I had 10 in me. Maybe I started too heavy using a true peaked 1RM.

I know that it is at times advertised as saying you’ll have some of the roughest bench sets of your training career on this program but I feel like I might be taking that too far. Would it make sense to just repeat the weights next week? Bail on the whole program? Plough forward and hope some magic hits?

When I hold down L2 the game thinks I’m tapping the button instead. I think it is because it switches to mouse and keyboard and loses the controller input.