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(Totentanz @ Oct. 29 2006,15:13)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Yeah, liegelord is pretty much a complete and total bad ass. 415 is what I'm shooting for as my 5 RM soon, and he's doing it in his 15s! Ah, maybe soon...
Does cardio during SD actually make the 15s not so sucky? I'm in the beginning of a new HST cycle, doing the 15s this time and the first couple sessions of 15s sucked so much that I was thinking of just going right into 10s. Yes, I'm a wuss, but my 15 RM for squats is 205, I'm still a few increments away and already hating the high reps... I have a feelng it's going to suck hard on the last day. Seriously, It almost feels like I'm doing depletions from UD2.0 again.</div>
this is actually one of the aspects of HST that i like the most. doing 15's can get to be a real cardio w/o especially after a # of cycles and your really dialed into what your 15 RM is so signif strength jumps are rare. but just being able to come back from the heavy stuff (5s) and get the form down again with some hi rep sets feels good to me.
once i do hit my 15 RM i find the next couple w/o in the 10's much easier despite going up in wgt.(espec. with squat and deads). there is just such a big diff. btw 10 reps and 15. the same holds true for 10's to 5's and as long as diet and sleep are in order im usually hitting at least a 5-10lb increase of RM every 2 weeks....pretty good for the motivation over 8-10 weeks.
although, i do 3x a week and only 1 set for the 15s. you guys that do splits or w/o more freq. with more sets may feel very different.