Haven’t written one. Yet.

Just two questions:

1. when you say “squat emphasis” do you also imply “light DL” and viceversa (same goes for bench emphasis)?

2. if “light = no emphasis”, that would equal, for example, training each “typology” at maintenance volume?

Thanks a lot

Things are going well, I would say.

I want to look at something more far-reaching, and I loved this 3 part article.

My issue is that I don’t see how it differs from what I always used to do: A warm up set, ramp up to about a 3 or 4 rep max over 4 or so sets… So, a set of 15, a set of 8 a set of 6 and a set or two of 3 reps………

I always thought that was just HIT.

THoughts?

Dawson

Example CHEST focus day – all exercises done to failure?
What about non focus muscle groups? How close to failure would one go? Only on the primary training load?

1. IF a subject is going to pick for example some body parts to emphasize during a 6-8 week cycle, let’s say for instance chest and back, would the subject focus on the intensive training load as the primary for both body parts but alternating over the weekly cycle. Also would the exercise remaing the same for the bodypart / workout.

For example, Tuesday chest routine would have 2 maintence sets in the strength training load (bench press), followed by 4 intensive sets Z (bench press), then 3 extensive sets (bench again? or change to a new exercise?) followed by say 2 min of push – ups. Then would the back and shoulders would be worked exclusively at maintence level for the rest of the Tuesday workout? Follwed by a Thrusday workout that empahsized back and kept chest and shoulders at maintence levels, repeating weekly for 6 weeks?

Also – if the focus for the cycle is say chest – would you keep the primary training load (for this example intensive) constant through the 6 week cycle? How many bodyparts do you recomend to focus on per cycle and would all others be trained at maintence level for all training loads?

Additionally, what are your thoughts on breaking the bodypart days into a morning and evening session – Monday: chest (focus muscle) in the AM, back and shoulders in the PM. Tuesday: legs in the AM, bi’s and tri’s in the PM. Wed off, Thurs chest AM, Back (focus muscle) and shoulders PM. etc.

Lastly, is there are systematic progression / rotation that you would suggest with respect to rotation of the various body part focuses and training loads?

Thanks