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Dear lord - I made it. What a week lol

So I have learned that doing squats and deadlifts all in one workout is very tough. If you do this - make sure you have your main meal before you lift on this day. Or face death.

I am sore! lol Not all that bad actually - just my back. I think between deads and rows my body is getting used to the increased frequency. Nice so far though - lifts are going well. Picked up some wrist wraps and chalk.

Alright - one rotation done so far. Feeling good - I've read it'll take me about 3-4 weeks to get used to the frequency. I will continue to update and keep this thread active with progress. We'll see how easily I can squat, deadlift, sldl tomorrow lol

I will definitely do that - I noticed that happened last time and did indeed get a rotator cuff injury so I will be sure to do some face pulls as I did them before and they helped. Thus far this is my regimen. Bench OHP BB Rows Assistance Work CGBP 6-10 reps Chin ups or maybe cg pull downs...

No I keep them held the entire time. Traditional - I would do pull ups but I find them a bit too hard to progress well since the weight management is tricky. Too many variables.

Okay, thats what I was thinking - Any thoughts on what I could substitute BB rows for - I did this before when I did hst and I found at a point my lwoerback was getting sore often - but I think that was a case of muscle tightness - I never stretched, I did warm up sets but my lower back and hips...

I'm wondering now if anything should be added, as far as assitance work. I am going to have to see how my lower back fares on all this. But aside from that - does anyone have any thoughts on assistance work? Is there anything you feel may be left out by the 6 exercises I have here? I was...

Wow, what an amazing read. Thank you Jester - at first I was like brah what are you talking about - but this analysis really hit a lot of points for me that I felt like were issues with the program as well, thus the increase in frequency and therefore volume to the lifts. Also felt the deload...

I would think the only thing advanced about it is the load. He states in the article its for anyone - so how is the program bad? It's no different than HST just in a different rep range. As Adpowah said there is the bulgarian method - and bulgarians would train something like the squat multiple...

So so far this is my plan. My progression will go as follows. Workout 1 3x5 @ 75% , Workout 2 3x5@80 Workout 3 2x5 @85 + 1x5+ That will be week 1 , and then for 3 reps I will be doing 80,85,90% in week 2 Week 3 I will be doing 85% and try to do 5+ again - Workout 3 will be 90% at 3+ and the...

I think I'm just going to give it a shot and see what happens. If it doesn't work then thats fine. And if it does then great - I'll continue to do it. I just thought it would be pretty logical - its like hst except the rep range is just way lower.

So what are your thoughts? Is this a bad idea do you think ? I also plan on using the agile 8 or some cominbation of (I noticed it doesn't really have any upper body component which I want to prevent shoulder injury.) So maybe that will help with recovery.

I did notice however wendlers program moves in 5% increments not 10%

Yeah I am going to plan the progression so that it it follows the progression system - HST does that and thats what intrigued me about 5/3/1 so I will be following it if the program works out. I figured it would also make it less draining on my system while in a caloric deficit as well making...

Shoulder is clear, 25 y/o and joints don't generally hurt, form is good - full ROM and I don't typically push myself past 90% of my max. I lowered the 5x5 to 3x5 to accomodate heavy compounds. I'll try not to set my expectations too high =P But perhaps just continuing to stay at 3x5 and push...

Hey Guys, Looking to get some advice with the seniors around here - I'm back after my long journey. In the past year I have completed arnolds blueprint, ICF 5x5, HST, - busted my shoulder up and then went traveling for a while. I'm back now and have been cutting for a few weeks. Now I want to...

Read through the entire E-Book, what an awesome read. It really answered the majority of my questions and gave me some great insights on how to get what I want out of HST.

Well that certainly makes things a lot more managable, I guess I got caught up in the progressive load thing and was thinking - I need to increase the weight EVERY workout I.E 3 workouts a week for 6 weeks I.E 24 workouts which I was like damn, biceps gonna get rekt. I am really looking forward...

I guess I wasn't all that concerned about the zigzagging - I just thought it wasn't supposed to happen :p