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  Arms Day and creatine talk again... Still going by comparison by weight moved, sets and reps... Table is getting longer by now.... going forward it probably make more sense to just compared most recent 2 workouts like this... Although everything is still subjective but sets and reps looks to be even less useful. Only the total load moved per session is a better indicator when evaluating. E.g. in the last line if it was 5 circuits of Round The World-- that will only still count as 5 sets. but break it down-- it's actually 15 sets of 3 different exercises in total. Or for that matter-- 5 sets of RTW would have a way higher count when tallying total reps. The key difference is therefore on the load/ weight moved around that can directly be related to energy expenditure and as a better indication of progressive overloading in training. In any case, yesterday's session was after a rather heavy dinner the night before with lots of meat which no doubt would have filled the body wi...

 Continuing my very unscientific observation from the previous writeup , this is how it went yesterday. All 3 Arms Days in the gym were full on workout session on biceps and triceps. Normally my mostly body-weight daily workout doesn't see this kind of exertion on particular muscle groups as compared to gym/ weight days. Had the creatine an hour before the workout. Tried to keep it similar as much as possible but deviation even at the "warmup" and while walking over to the gym was already making it hard to "clone" an exact workout for comparison. Last comparison session on 30 Sep, I was relatively fresh at the start. Yesterday was pretty tiring considering last week's activities.  At the end of the session, could not find the strength to do my usual bodyweight-finisher  circuit routine of Push/Pull/Dips. Finisher super/ triset was aborted. A chunk of yesterday's load would be noticeably from the first row which I consider as each session "warmup...

DISCLAIMER : A heuristical analysis comparing 2 very similar Arms Day session with the latter after a dose of creatine an hour before commencing. Lacking in any kind of big data and good sampling size. Reps and total weight moved increased on 30 Sep 2023 over 02 Sep 2023. A positive correlation to usage of creatine. However fatigue level accumulation of last few days before each of these cannot be objectively factored. Recovery from strain injuries leading to possibly better performance on 30 Sep cannot be quantified. No specific conclusions can be drawn at this point. 02 Sep - No creatine.  30 Sep - ~3.5gram of creatine 1 hour before workout. Workout session ~similar on both days (11:30am - 1:45pm). Fonts in red yesterday indicate working to FAILURE either in reps and or weight used (similar indication not available for 02 Sep log)   Tried to replicate 02 Sep routine yesterday but walking on the way to the gym was some Elbow Dips and followed by a set of pullups before star...