A1. Good Morning 5x5
A2. Cleans 5x5
B1. GHR 3x8
B2. Leg Press 3x8
I may drop the 2nd leg day, as I have some slight knee problems, and have trouble recovering from leg day that soon. It all depends. [/quote]
Seems solid to me, though I would make a few changes. I’d get rid of the leg press and replace it with split squats or walking lunges. I’d also think of substituting the overhead squat for the front squat if you’re able to. Besides this, it seems pretty simple and effective.
Looks ok to me then, just make sure that you only take the first one or two exercises really heavy. It’s easy to burn out doing really heavy 5x5 day after day with several lifts per session. One thing I think is useful is this: don’t try to get super strong on every lift you do. Pick one or 2 for upper body and lower body and get strong in those lifts, using assistance to help those lifts specifically. Then, the added strength from perfecting one lift will add the size you want because the tension will get high. You’ll never get that really high level if you try to go heavy on everything because you can’t be super strong on every single lift. If that wasn’t clear enough let me know.
Looks solid. Just replace the leg press with a unilateral quad dominant movment. For your vertical pulling, you may want to use a different grip on the lat pulldown.
I’d say for you first lift of each day, spend a little more time on it. Do 10 x 2 insteead of 5, spend like 20 minutes lifting hard and heavy. Then, for your first 1-2 assistance lifts hit them hard but not super heavy (5-8 reps) and for anything else do 6+ reps with a relatively light weight.
My only concern is that I am aiming for maximal strength. The higher volume take longer and may not allow me to train in the upper 90% ranges.
Yeah, I structured my assistance work in the 5 ranges, but you recommended me not to try and get super strong at every lift.
Thanks for your help!
-The Truth
quote]Yoda-x wrote:
I’d say for you first lift of each day, spend a little more time on it. Do 10 x 2 insteead of 5, spend like 20 minutes lifting hard and heavy. Then, for your first 1-2 assistance lifts hit them hard but not super heavy (5-8 reps) and for anything else do 6+ reps with a relatively light weight.[/quote]
My only concern is that I am aiming for maximal strength. The higher volume take longer and may not allow me to train in the upper 90% ranges.
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My thought is, if you’re set on doing sets of 2 you’ll be working with <95% and >85%, so you won’t be in max range. If you want max strength, one day (or week) do sets of 2, then one week do like 10 x 1, with 6-8 at 90-95 and 2-4 at 95%+.