I was doing good for the first 4 weeks, strength was either the same or increasing slightly, but then last week I went into the workout knowing that I needed to, but not necessarily feeling like it... probably because I was already tired from the manual construction labor I was doing, and the results showed. I was weak as water. And I could tell on the first exercise, which was lat pulldown. On the prior workout, I was able to do 1 super-slow rep @ 160lbs on the 30-30-30 cadence, meaning you pull it down to your chest as the starting point, and then take 30 seconds to control the raise back up, 30 seconds to pull it down again, and then 30 seconds to let it back up once more. On this last work out, I pulled it down and then slowly let it rise for 30 seconds, but when I went to pull it down over a 30-second period back down to my chest, I couldn't even do it so I abandoned ship. From that point forward, I knew I was screwed so I immediately dropped all the weights on subsequent exercises by 20% just to make it through.