Giving up - No results from years in gym. Any advice?

[cousinmuscles]

Not a typo and I agree it's wierd. Most get suprised at that number and I understand why.
Funny thing is that my back always stay strong regardless of how much I train it (old job as mover), but my legs drop really fast in strength.
I took a 2 month break before and could still pull of 200 without any issue in deads, but was stuck at 90 kg in squats (?)

I've started lifting more with the legs since. It haven't given me any strength increase yet, but I can pull of more reps.

And I have never tried any belt in my life. Would be fun to see where I'm at if I get the hang of it all.

Btw: Pushed the crap out of me today after you guys advice. I just realized that I'm shit weak haha
Did a nice warmup for legday.
- After that I started with 100kg squat, no rest point in lifts to keep tension. Managed 4 sets to failure. 9 reps (failed at 10th), 4 reps, 4 reps, 2 reps.
- Went to 60 kg walking lunges. 4x4 without hitting knee at floor.
- Legpress machine. 100 kg/ 4 set. 4-4-3-2 and then hip started to hurt so I stopped.

No more than 30 seconds rest between every set and exercise. Had to stay 20min at the gym to not vomit outside.
Loved it!
Now I just need to do that for a shit load of time.


Should I increase anything else and how many days can I exercise on this?

Regarding squats, it might be a big technique impediment. You might think that youre lifting with your back on deadlifts and very little when squatting, and vice versa with squats. Thats not really true though, its basically the same muscles with a slight emphasis on lower back and hamstrings for deads and quads for squats. Glutes work kind of equally much...

If you have 30 second rest between sets then you are going far away from the HIT recommendation from many in this thread. Your training favors slow twich muscle fibers. It will take time to learn but for a start, get a log book and note everything down. Just have a goal with each workout where you beat your old workout. You need more than 30 seconds rest to hit the fast twitch muscle fibers. Try 2-3 minutes and just keep beating the book and over time you will have tried many variations so you can see which produces results. Dont do anything for too long if you keep pushing the same weights over and over.

[Fiskevatten]

Regarding squats, it might be a big technique impediment. You might think that youre lifting with your back on deadlifts and very little when squatting, and vice versa with squats. Thats not really true though, its basically the same muscles with a slight emphasis on lower back and hamstrings for deads and quads for squats. Glutes work kind of equally much...

If you have 30 second rest between sets then you are going far away from the HIT recommendation from many in this thread. Your training favors slow twich muscle fibers. It will take time to learn but for a start, get a log book and note everything down. Just have a goal with each workout where you beat your old workout. You need more than 30 seconds rest to hit the fast twitch muscle fibers. Try 2-3 minutes and just keep beating the book and over time you will have tried many variations so you can see which produces results. Dont do anything for too long if you keep pushing the same weights over and over.

You are most likely right on that part. I've had spotters that checked me and I've also tried to take a video to see how I lift as well, but even if I lift correct
now when I think about it, I might have been doing it wrong all the way back in some degree.

I will follow your advice on the log.
Been thinking about keeping log on the measures as well since I never see any progress, but others apparently do.

haha damn, first try on HIT and I immediately go overboard. Gotta read more on that.
I've never had this much pain in each muscle since a long time tho^^

Btw, I took my tests today.
They didn't have everything, so I had to be happy with:
Full Lipid profile, LH, FSH. Total test, E2 and TSH. Hope that can show something.

And she got worried of my BP for some reason.
149/71 - 41 as first test in the morning with no food or drink for 8 hours.
I did a EKG test in sweden which gave me 36 in resting pulse before trip, that doc only said I train hard apparently.
Any concerns?