I wanna see you bitches run a 400m sprint
20 seconds on airdyne = sprint to hell
20 seconds on rower = meh
I wanna see you bitches run a 400m sprint
20 seconds on airdyne = sprint to hell
20 seconds on rower = meh
Exactly. It takes 3-4 strokes to hit that sub 1:20 pace (more strokes if you're being smart), at which point you're halfway done.
If you sustain sub 1:20 for 20 seconds, cool. That'd be awful. That's a different gig.
Edit: anyway, this is all an aside. Jordan & Austin have putout lots of fantastic content. I'm looking forward to reading The Bridge
Last edited by John Hanley; 08-10-2017 at 11:27 AM.
I started the Bridge last week and have been enjoying it so far. There's definitely a learning curve to RPE, but I don't think it's as extreme as it's made out to be. My way of approaching it so far has been to review the video of my set before rating it and check the bar speed in particular: if it didn't visibly slow down, it's <7; if it slowed down very slightly, it's ~7; if it slowed noticeably, it's ~8; if it actually stopped moving briefly, it's ~9; if it stopped moving for more than a second, it's 9.5-10.
Seeing as it's designed for early intermediates, as long as you're 1) continuing to add weight to the bar each week, and 2) not failing any reps, you're probably close enough on the RPE factor.
In the second week of it now actually. Week 2's Monday's mid shin rack pull's kind of left me wasted though. It says to do all squat variations (except competition squat) beltless to reduce the stress, but no such words are there for rack pull, and in my auto-mode stupidity I took the belt on and loaded up. I'll assume they're intended to do beltless from now on. Since it's a new exercise I probably overshot the weight a little too (rounding on last set, assume they follow Tusherer's philosophy of that being @10).
Those Mondays do seem pretty harsh though, didn't feel any easier than a TM Monday what with doing both squat volume and rack pull volume. Unless the next weeks get better, I'm a go all YNDTP and switch rack pulls for RDLs/SLDLs/something of similar level stress.
Saw no words in The Bridge guide about adapting the program if it was too high stress either. I mean I get that they have their philosophical differences with Andy Baker on reducing volume for older people as discussed in the Volume Sensitivity thread now, but I do think it's possible to go YOLO too far the other way and give out young people standards as immutable, why/when to alter should be added if they have a version 2. Even at <=@8 RPE, if you do like 8-12 sets of squats+deadlift variation, wouldn't that be almost as high stress as the TM VD that is supposed to be cramming most the weekly volume into 1 day?