Itâs fine if youâre able to recover. I know I couldnât manage squats and deads on the same day - I can barely manage them in the same week on 531, but that would have been more do-able when my weights were much lighter.
Same. If @GOBLIN1 is younger and novice or less in weights this could definitely happen. It will probably even be beneficial if close to a beginner levels.
No, I think it would be better to follow 531 reps and sets for strength purposes and then perform your bodybuilding accessory lifts afterwards. I donât consider any of the big 4 to be âbodybuildingâ type exercises.
At ~400lbs and ~500lbs respectively, no I cannot. My lower back wonât tolerate it and it would be impressive for me to continue onward to any accessory work at all after that.
Iâve always been a fan of it for reasons similar to what Derek wrote. Trying to come into heavy deads after I totally blew my legs away a few days beforehand was a nightmare. I actually prefer to stack my 5/3/1 days as Squats/press/bench/dead so that I have as long as possible between squats and deads.
Well, Iâm not exactly a Derek Poundstone either, but there are people like you (because youâre a prime example) who manage to recover from an absurd training volume, and then thereâs the rest of us.
Thereâs an argument to be made about under-recovery (we all know the one) but for a lot of us, that just isnât feasible. I believe @hankthetank89 is on the train of separating squats and deadlifts due to recovery as well.
For me, itâs not a matter of âwell this is going to suckâ, itâs quite seriously that my lower back is in agony following any heavy deadlifting, and it isnât very happy after squats either. Doing them on the same day for weight, is going to end with some seriously regressed lifts.
Itâs fine if we disagree here, and Iâm not saying my method is better by any means - just what I do and why I do it. Perhaps when I have the ability to devote more time/effort to lifting (like when Iâm done working 12 hour days on 5 hours sleep, while keeping up with school and a young family), I can do it more like Derek. Until then, my method has worked out pretty well, considering my obligations.
Yes. Look, if youâre able to recover from that - go for it. I just know I donât have that level of recovery and could tell you I canât swing that workload before ever trying it. Just from my personal experience.
I am VERY much nothing special, haha. I find recovery a trainable quality honestly.
No disagreement at all dude. Iâm not saying one approach is better than the other: just asking questions about approaches and sharing my own experience.
Iâll absolutely agree to this. I think seeing how crossfitters train pre-competition is a prime example of this as well⊠IDK how itâs humanly possible to train for 6+ hours daily, but that is not uncommon for those on the elite tiers of XFit.
If it werenât for the lower back situation (which is probably caused by hamstring/abductor tightness), Iâd be much more inclined to lump all my powerlifts together into the same day. Iâd be running PPL+Strength as a weekly template for sure.
Heavy squats and deadlifts on the same day? Not for me. I feel that I want a âpeakingâ day before I do either Squats or Deadlifts because I really want to focus on them individually. By that I mean what C.Thib has spoken about several times before; eat more the day before those big lifts, get as much glycogen storage and water retention as you can. Something about passive stability. Hit them so hard that you need a rest day afterward.
I feel that RDLs after squats can be gotten away with though, just not in unnecessarily high volumes.
The great thing is none of us are wrong. Learning our minds and bodies and then being able to alter how we do things tailored to ourselves is a wonderful thing.
As others have said, I think this is largely fine depending on your strength levels and ability to recover from the squat/dead workouts. One thing you may consider is, as Jim recommends, âextendingâ the week to 9 days. So youâre doing 531 strength workouts 3 times a week, but using a template with 4 different training days. Rather than finishing the cycle in three weeks, youâd finish it in 4 weeks. This also leaves more room for conditioning, sports, or any other active hobbies you may have.
FSL isnât really heavy, unless you are extremely advanced. I presume that the OP is not in that category.
JW doesnât recommend switching from Squats > DL for FSL or BBB in the same workout. He has his reasons. But if this lifter wants to try it and see how it goes, the world isnât going to come to an end.
This isnât peaking for one rep maxes, this is a mentality of relieving yourself of as much systemic fatigue before maximizing every set in your next workout. It has been the best way to train for me, my body feels better than it ever has.
Thibaudeau believes it is the most efficient way to train for most people. Yeah I havenât ran as many different programs or splits as a lot of people but right now the proof is in the pudding for me.
I try to NOT be at my best when I train. Giving my all in training is VERY taxing on my recovery. I save that for competition. I train pretty far behind the 8-ball so that I donât tap too hard into my recovery.
To be fair, much of this is more similar to âpracticeâ than training. Not that Iâm an elite crossfitter, but those that compete will spend a lot of time in the gym but focus on technique work like OLY lifting and gymnastics-style movements. Itâs not like theyâre doing WOD-level intensity work for hours on end. That said, it still is an impressive amount of workload thatâs going on.
For example, todayâs prescribed workload for a competitive Crossfitter using our third partyâs programming is:
Pre-WOD:
Strength
5x2 high hang squat snatch, rest as needed. Use the same weight across all sets.
6x2 front squats @ 80% 1RM, rest as needed
Gymnastics work, 6 rounds for time:
15 Echo bike calories
5 ring muscle ups
WOD
(9-7-5-5-7-9 reps of power snatches, thrusters, bar-facing burpees, 95 lbs)
Post-WOD work:
Strength:
3 rounds of 1 arm DB Bench
3 rounds of side plank rows
A mobility sequence.
This would be spread across hours in the gym, for sure. There is also a ton of warm up and âdrillsâ done prior to the work, especially for the OLY lifts and gymnastics work.
Haha.