I'm disappointed, but at least you're admitting your failure and come back. I'm self employed and do the work of three people every single day, I work day and night, and I still find enough energy and time to do my lifting.



Anyway, about the boxing gloves, forget that shit, remember what I said about building strength. Performing a 1000 repetitions only makes you good at....performing a 1000 repetitions.
To build strength there is no way around lifting heavy ass bar- and dumbbells in awkward positions in the 5-8 repetition 3-5 sets range. 12 or more repetitions per set is muscular endurance, 8-10 repetitions is a mix of muscle gain and muscular endurance, 5-8 is muscle size and strength increase, 1-3 repetitions is raw competition strength. There are countless methods and approaches to lifting but if there is one thing thats written in stone its rep ranges and their effects. 


You might change your opinion once you imagine everything I say with a very deep voice with a thick Austrian accent. Its not as bad as GET TO DA CHOPPA but its bad, like Ahnuld multiplied by 0.6. 

Thanks for the tip, been trying to vary my daily exercise and this would certainly be a nice addition.

Would you have any personal recommendations regarding some solid shoulder workout? I've previously been doing bent lateral, front raise and overhead press for around a month, but recently I've noticed a halt in development, and was wondering if you have any additional tips to add to the training, instead of me simply adding more weight as an option (unless you think that is what I should do).

I am 6 days a week at the gym, so progress has been achieved in 4 months I've been doing it, but I'm noticed that I'm starting to hit a wall, and I'm not interested in doubling my workout gains to a breakneck pace, but making them more effective during the spare time I have during the day.

I don't know exactly. I feel pretty uncool after 4 or 5 days of not exercising, and my push-up power/endurance decreases 25%~33% from the last time I did it.

Like E-Ro said, you're starting to loose muscle at a very slow pace if you haven't worked them in approx. 4-5 weeks. Resting for 10 days can actually improve your strength since you give your body enough time to completely regenerate from the workout.
Athletes do that before having weight lifting competition.

As for plateauing, if your exercise plan is varied enough and features optimal regeneration time for each muscle group you can try experimenting with different work loads. Don't stick to your 8 repetitions and 3 sets forever, or what your current system may be.
If your progress halts try using more weight with less repetitions, like 5 repetitions with 5 sets for each exercise, or maybe even 3 repetitions with 5 sets. Plateauing usually means your body has gotten used to your current plan and weights and you need to do something unusual to shock it and tell it that you're still not strong enough.
Another thing you can do is partials. Partials is an exercise where you only do a part of its movement so you can use much more weight. You can do that with overhead presses, use more weight than you can actually press, but only let the bar down to eye level (or higher) before you push it (instead chest-level.) Or dead lifts, put your dead lift bar on a rack which is already set at knee-height so you effectively half the movement, that way you can use MUCH more weight which might be just what you need to break the plateau.

Of course, if you're natural you may be hitting your genetic limit and there is nothing you can do about it but doing drugs. (Bad idea)

Yeah, switching exercises to improve variety and making sure you're giving your body enough rest is the absolute first thing you should do when you're experiencing a plateau. If it does not help, or help much its time to think about advanced lifting techniques like partials, drop sets, forced reps, pyramid etc.



Oh, and for something else, here is the trailer for the Savickas Classic 2015. Nor sure if Big-Z is going to compete this year though, hes still recovering from an elbow surgery. Probably next year. 

Muscle 1 x 1 (simplified version to keep it short)

If you train for repetitions you'll become good at doing a lot of repetitions, if you are doing few repetitions with heavy weights you'll become good at that. Simple as that.


You get muscle ache from endurance sports because of the wear and tear of the slow twitch fibers.
Thats good, those fibers are for endurance and doing the same motion over and over again for long periods of time. They'll get more efficient with training, but they are extremely weak and barely increase in size.


For strength you want to target fast and ultra fast twitch fibers.
Fast fibers are very strong in contraction but only work efficiently for a couple of seconds, those are the fibers providing you with explosive strength and strong static support for a couple of seconds.
Those are the fibers you need when lifting a boulder, bracing yourself for a punch or hauling yourself over obstacles. You target them via, surprise, fast and explosive movements. 
Fast fibers dramatically increase in diameter and strength when trained.

Another thing is motor units in cells. For strength you need fast fibers with lots of diameter AND tons of motor units to power them. Only the combination of those two result in actual strength.
Motor units are targeted by very few repetitions (1-3)  with very heavy weights to absolute failure.
Thats why powerlifters are stronger than body builders, the body builder may have an edge in muscle mass but the powerlifter is stronger because he has better motor units. 

I actually have a question you might be able to answer! When I sleep I sometimes start to moan and groan like a zombie, or like being in severe pain, with my mouth closed. 
I'm so loud that I wake myself up several times each night, which is very annoying. (Not to mention I scare the shit out people)  
I have snored before and know how it feels and sounds, but this is completely different. Should I be concerned about this?

On a lighter/funny note