GVT- Great Volume Trauma

My gym sessions aint very long anymore, well they never used to be any more than an hourish anyway. But yes im pretty strict with my times, rest between sets 1 minute and rest between exercises 2 minutes.
Some exercises like BSS and bench I may add 10-15 seconds extra when im getting past set 7 occasionally, but hand on heart I need too.
Quite proud at the time but not now, I had 1 min rest exactly on all 10 sets of my BSS yesturday..kinda feeling it now.

Edit: Ordered 10 more packs of biltong yummy.
 
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I train alone at home and am very anal about my rest times. Hence I know what a difference 1 min versus 2 mins make, and I need 2 minutes for the heavy stuff!

How long are you going to continue with GVT? I'd be really curious to see how your 1RMs have changed after a few months on it
 
Well this is my current PB's from the powerlifting thread:
Bench/squat/deadlift
Bakes0310 -------------- 70+ / 145+ / 155+ ------------- [84] ----------- 370

But that score is about a couple months old, I don't really try pb as you can see these were not 1rep pb more like 3-5reps.
Would be nice if I could actually improve my bench and at least get to 90kg before the end of the year, but I think that's a tall order for me.
 
Week5
Day1:
Squats 10X10 90kg all fine until some weird thing happened in my head at set 9. I said that's enough reps about halfway through and put the bar back up wtf?? set 10 was fine, very odd.
Deficit Bulgarian Split Squats (dumbells) 10x10 7kg yep done, hurt yes, feeling it later probably...
DB Lunges 3x10 12kg Gonna go up next week
DB Side Raises 3x10 Tried 10kg but wasn't very good, gonna try it again, but I think its more about me being a little fagged out, rather than struggling with weight.
 
This week will be a little messed up as I have lots of night shifts this week only. And I don't get on with them so im not sure how my gym time this week will be.
I will get tomorrows session done, but im not quite sure about my deadlift session.
 
Week5
Day2
Bench 10x10 40kg- Sets up to 7 were fine onwards the reps started to go down..
Rows 10x10 25kg Now its getting difficult gonna keep the weight one more week then try heavier after that.
Pressups 3x10 Kept the 3 sets I was a bit zonked from the previous 2 exercises.
DB Push Press 3x10 Still feels quite heavy but I do manage my sets.
 
Week6
Day1:
Squats 10X10 90kg Found it quite hard but still gonna up it.
Deficit Bulgarian Split Squats (dumbells) 10x10 7kg Think I will up the weight now
DB Lunges 3x10 12kg forgot to up it, so ill make sure ill do it next week
DB Side Raises 3x10 10kg happy to leave it at that.
 
Week6
Day2
Bench 10x10 40kg- I struggled at set 6, got my 10 sets done.
Rows 10x10 25kg Going up next week.
Pressups 3x10 Kept the 3 sets but with 30 second rest instead of 1 minute
DB Push Press 3x10 Still feels quite heavy but I do manage my sets.
 
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Week 6
Day 3
Deadlift 3x10@92kg Up next week
OHP 10x10 Put some weight on the bar.
RDL 10x10@50kg felt okay going up next week.
 
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Dammit guys, ive put my back out doing squats. I just started set 7 as I went down, I heard a crunch in my lower back. Managed to rerack it and walk out the gym. So much pain. Ive done it before quite a few times. Gonna take a week to heal like usual. Just gonna rewatch some videos in the form thread, IDIOT :(

I know how I done it, I sort of race through the sets, just dropping myself down too quickly and maybe I stick my butt out too much, then crunch.
Ill be fine guys, just a week off im sure.
 
The fact taht you've done this "quite a few times before" isn't a very good indicator.

Post a video up if you're concerned. Chances are you are not grooving right and a leaning too far forward...
 
As soon as I can move, ill get a video up. Is that something I can show you guys without being in the gym, say with just holding a broom or something and showing the movement?
 
That will give an indicator of your overall form yes, but it won't show how or if you form breaks down under heavy weights, which ofc it can tend to do when close to 1RMs/high intensity.
 
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