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    Maintaining on a holiday

    You're drinking and taking drugs every hour of the waking day every single day? No, you do that stuff in the afternoon/night, so train sometime in the day and get in/prepare quality food. If you are interested in maintaining some kind of progress, find ways to make it happen. No excuses...
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    Maintaining on a holiday

    I don't understand the I'm not gonna train properly cos I'm on holidays mentality. Why not just train as hard and normally as you can? Why waste the time/progress and feel guilty about it later too? It's really not that hard to maintain a half-decent diet and training regime on holidays - for...
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    fatigued as f**k

    How I Would Westside Juggernaut Training Systems Juggernaut Training Systems
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    fatigued as f**k

    IMO unless you are at an elite level and therefore a highly skilled and efficient lifter, a full de-load week is just wasting valuable time, and if anything allows you to become 'de-conditioned', like this guy says: Deloading and Taking A Week Off - YouTube For example on 531 I like to do...
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    im taking on 3x3

    Yep as 0ni says, training to peak in strength for X day and training for long-term strength gains are entirely different. For example when switching over to 531 programming my 1RMs took a hit, due to having to adapt to lots of volume and accesory training with sub-maximal weights. I consider it...
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    im taking on 3x3

    I've found personally 1RM convertions aren't even remotely accurate, even at lowish rep ranges. E.g for Bench I did 100 x 3 then missed 105 the next week - all touch n go. And inversely, recently for Olympic squat 135 was a very fast easy single, yet for 120 x 3 the 3rd rep was a bit of a...
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    How much sleep?

    Definitely Before lifting, or any kind of serious lifting, ~6 hrs was typical for me. Yes I was also a teenager then, but the point remains. Now, 7-8 is typical. However, once or twice a week I usually get 9-10 hrs. I find if that extra bit of sleep doesn't happen, I experience the effects as...
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    All time squat records

    I've always wondered, do athletes on gear simply cycle off before a meet to pass the test? Or is the testing better than that?
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    Hack Squats or deficit deads for Deads assistance

    Well played. We should team up, our presses combined would make a decent lifter.
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    Hack Squats or deficit deads for Deads assistance

    Don't be mad 0ni, just because I'm encroaching on your niche of pointless semantics...there's enough room for both of us:)
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    fatigued as f**k

    You can try getting more sleep, its free. For me 7-8 hrs a night is normal, but I try to get 9-10 once or twice a week. Seems to help stave off the beat-up/over-trained feeling. Yes I'm aware of the irony of posting this at 2am, that's because I took a nanny nap at 6pm that resulted in me...
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    Hack Squats or deficit deads for Deads assistance

    Define 'stress', presumably we are talking about shear force, which is probably most dangerous to the knee and surrounding tissue in terms of general injury risk and 'wear'. As opposed to say large compressive force on the knee when you are standing upright with the a barbell + X kilos. However...
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    Strength gains...

    Sick and tired of the whole militant bb'ing vs PLing stuff, it breeds stupidity. If you want to excel at one, incorporate some methods from the other, and benefit from the best of both worlds. There are plenty of examples of people around who have managed to simultaneously achieve at both...
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    Strength gains...

    I shoulda specified I did not mean the oly Bulgarian program, but rather adapting that methodology to powerlifting, which has been done by John Broz. IMO for someone relatively lacking in technique, experience and confidence with maximal weights, doing a block of Bulgarian type training can...
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    Hack Squats or deficit deads for Deads assistance

    With measures I've tried so far, for me personally, what seems to work is to focus mainly on squatting and DL sparingly. Pulling with any kind of frequency/volume seems to result in going no where for me. Note: - DL is easily my best lift - 192.5 or more recently an easy 180 x 3 @77.5kg 5"11"...
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    Strength gains...

    If you are primarily interested in pursueing maximal strength for a while and give no fuck for hypertrophy/size, do a block of Bulgarian Method or something along those lines. Search these forums there was a thread about it recently. In my reading, opinion and experience (albeit relatively...
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    Going back to Starting Strength as an "intermediate" lifter

    In all seriousness, I don't think it matters, just pick any of the well-established programs. Train hard, eat well, get sleep consistently and who gives a fuck what program you're on. However, in my 13th week of 531, I'll share my thoughts on it so far: - Going from a general unstructured...
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    Going back to Starting Strength as an "intermediate" lifter

    Shit you could be onto something, how convenient we are both shit at pressing and anorexic in size (or maybe we are just smarter in not getting fat?) Listen people, Here's how it is: - 531 is better than PPP or SSS because Wendler has a sick beard. Do 531 - You will stall sooner or later on a...
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    Eric Spoto didn't get his 716 bench. Stan Efferding didn't get his 905 squat

    Disappointing after so much hype from Mark Bell. IMO the big squats shown in his ST vids are often high anyway.
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    Rippetoe Press 2.0 Video

    Rippletoe can do no wrong. Except possibly advocating oly lifters to squat low bar.
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