Here's my Korte

[blut wump]

lol that'd be 64%

I guess 45 pounds does seem a lot and I suppose much of it was newbie gains. Newbie to ATF, at least. I have squatted 190Kg before but it was on a Smith and ANNTF. Since moving to free weights, I've never failed any weight that I've lifted out of the hole. I could probably leg press a lot of weight

 

[Jim Ouini]

Caught that, see my edit. It's a wonder I can put my fanny pack on by myself.

It's a shame you got hurt, it'd be real interesting to see where your dead ended up.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Week 8 Day 3

Squat
Bar x 2 x 5
135 x 2 x 3
165 x 1
195 x 1
225 x 1
255 x 1
285 x 1
285 x 1 (belt)
315 x 2 x 1 (belt)

315 was my 100% target, but I hit 295 (95%) last week and 305 seemed kinda pointless I haven't squatted with a belt in a long time, so after 285 I did another rep with the belt just for practice - I forgot how good it felt Anyway, it spurred me on to do 315. I guess I'm happy, wish it woulda felt lighter, though. I did another rep with a pause just because I wanted to but man did I have a sticking point at parallel.

Bench
Bar x 3 x 5 (N-S-W)
135 x 3 x 3 (N-S-W)
185 x 5 x 4 (N-S-W-N-S)

Dead
Bar x 10 (RDL)
135 x 3
225 x 1 (mini-band)
315 x 3 x 3 (mini-band)

Not much to report on either.

Overall: Completed my 8 weeks. Pretty satisfied with the results, I hit dead and bench PR's and squat form is coming along. Still debating this weekend on what to do next week - try for my 100%'s, start a new Korte, what have you.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Oh yeah, after deads I tried some powercleans at 135 after stripping the plates.

I'm sure my form was horrible. Still, they seem like something I'd like to do more of.

 

[blut wump]

Congrats on surviving to the end.

I guess that squat was an ATF PR too. It is kind of surprising how much more solid it feels to squat in a belt. It spurs me to leave the belt off. I was even more astounded when I used knee wraps and can only imagine what a combo of belt, wraps and suit would feel like. Probably like using a Smith.

If you're not diving straight back into another Korte, it'd make sense to find your new 1RMs while you are still in intensity mode.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Thanks BW. I wouldn't call the squat ATF, more like Hams Grazing Calves , but yeah I guess the weight and depth were new territory, have to try to build off it now.

I'm leaning towards trying my targets and then 5 x 5 but deadlifting only once per week seems pretty paltry so we'll see.

 

[blut wump]

It took me a little while to get out of Korte mode.

I started by switching Mondays and Fridays to have rows instead of deads and Wednesdays be more akin to the 5x5 Wednesday but with front squats and GMs. I ran that for a while until I started to feel generally beat up and then took an easy week. By then I'd divested myself of Korte-like workouts.

I tried some deadlifts again on Thursday. Just 120Kg for 8 sets for 3. It felt good and I might do the same again next week with more weight. I've been doing GMs, pull-throughs and dimmels to keep my posterior chain in shape along with hypers and reverse-hypers. I'm planning to go back to box-squats next week or the one after.

 

[Jim Ouini]

Thought I'd just post it here BW:

Yeah, if I wanted to run Korte right away, week 1 loading would be:

(old week 1 weights)*(new target/old target)

and so on.

So let me look at my last volume week:

Squat: 240 (rounded from 239, new target 335)
Bench: 225 (224, new target 315 )
Dead: 375 (372, new target 525)

Intriguing

 

[anotherbutters]

Congrats on finishing, and on the 3 plate squat!

 

[Jim Ouini]

Thanks AB. Finishing wasn't that hard, it was the first 4 weeks.

The last week was just about hitting maxes, and honestly they aren't very hard either you get it or you don't