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After a lengthy hiatus from IM (but not from training or competing) I decided I want to keep an online journal again. I saw Breck started a new journal and Robb Hensel has been posting more frequently and even Tony Lopez has shown up....
I've been a member here since '06 and in that time my goals, reasons for training and philosophy regarding training eating and life in general has undergone some pretty radical changes. Since this primarily a training site Ill confine my thoughts to those areas....
TRAINING
like everyone else that started training in the 80's I followed the typical weider-esque high volume bodypart routines that dominated the magazines of the time. When Yates hit the scene I didn't reduce my volume drastically but I was much more aware of overtraining (for better or worse)...
When I competed in bb'ing I followed the one body part per session, 12-15 sets and lots of intensity techniques. Unfortunately I didn't know anything about varying loads/volume or frequency and the idea of a deload was completely foreign to me.
In the last few years as I shifted from BBing to powerlifting I did enough reading to start incorporating different systems and have relied more on volume/frequency as opposed to a sort of mindless "train as hard as you can" mentality. Writers like CS Sloan, Jim Wendler, Dave Tate, Jamie Lewis (his early stuff) and Layne Norton have shaped how I train.
SO how do I train?
I've done both 5/3/1 and DUP both with great success (my best meet performance was after using DUP), and currently I've been following Cory Gregory's Squat.Every.Day 2.5
BTW there is no S.E.D. 2.5 I've run both 2.0 and 3.0 and this is an amalgamation that suits me. Here's what I like about it:
*squat 6x/week , work up to a single everyday(different variations everyday)
*deadlift 2x/week: one sumo, one conventional
*bench 2x/week
one of the main reasons I like this is I feel GREAT everyday, something about starting your day off @5AM with heavy singles in the squat just sets the tone for the day....
I've been a member here since '06 and in that time my goals, reasons for training and philosophy regarding training eating and life in general has undergone some pretty radical changes. Since this primarily a training site Ill confine my thoughts to those areas....
TRAINING
like everyone else that started training in the 80's I followed the typical weider-esque high volume bodypart routines that dominated the magazines of the time. When Yates hit the scene I didn't reduce my volume drastically but I was much more aware of overtraining (for better or worse)...
When I competed in bb'ing I followed the one body part per session, 12-15 sets and lots of intensity techniques. Unfortunately I didn't know anything about varying loads/volume or frequency and the idea of a deload was completely foreign to me.
In the last few years as I shifted from BBing to powerlifting I did enough reading to start incorporating different systems and have relied more on volume/frequency as opposed to a sort of mindless "train as hard as you can" mentality. Writers like CS Sloan, Jim Wendler, Dave Tate, Jamie Lewis (his early stuff) and Layne Norton have shaped how I train.
SO how do I train?
I've done both 5/3/1 and DUP both with great success (my best meet performance was after using DUP), and currently I've been following Cory Gregory's Squat.Every.Day 2.5
BTW there is no S.E.D. 2.5 I've run both 2.0 and 3.0 and this is an amalgamation that suits me. Here's what I like about it:
*squat 6x/week , work up to a single everyday(different variations everyday)
*deadlift 2x/week: one sumo, one conventional
*bench 2x/week
one of the main reasons I like this is I feel GREAT everyday, something about starting your day off @5AM with heavy singles in the squat just sets the tone for the day....
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