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Old 10-24-2006, 07:44 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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Hmmm....I think you'd be better off posting your previous training experience and your goals, etc. At just above beginner there is still probably no need to "periodize" your training and you'd benefit from a three day fullbody or 4 day upper/lower split. Neither of which would be periodized in the way that you're thinking. What I advice is you just get in there and lift some weights uing straight progression and see where that gets you before you analyse everything to death before you actually try anything.

This is beginning to sound more like an academic pursuit rather than someone wanting to bodybuild or strength train . IMO, at the early stage of the game the only kind of "cycling" necessary to make good contiunuous progress is simple intensity cycling. This basically means determing you maximum load for a given rep range where you want to be able to increase that load. But instead of trying to "shock" progress by adding 5 or 10 pounds to that you back off of that weight and build back up over a period of 3 to 5 weeks (of six). This is exactly how you would run Rippletoe's starting strength or the Bill Starr Single Factor that a lot of people are doing (also light, medium, and heavy days here) and that is all you need to make a big run on substantail new PR's and some fantastic gains.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.

Last edited by EricT; 10-24-2006 at 08:25 AM.
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