i for one appreciate the info on the TM because when my linear progress dries up that is definitely what i'll be moving on to.

theoretically i totally agree with Eric3237's thoughts on the purpose of Friday's session. As far as my understanding of the method goes, the purpose of Friday's session is to display increases in performance brought about by the high volume-high intensity session on monday and the recovery that was allowed by the light session on wednesday. The idea is to keep volume low so that very little homeostatic disruption occurs which would allow one to be fully recovered for the next Monday's session, the "stress" session.
i can see that there are positive and negative aspects to Deadlifting on either wednesday or friday and it is something to experiment with for sure. Even with my current A-B-A, B-A-B style program i've dropped deads now to only once a week to help ensure adequate recovery.

i also agree with the idea that Rip should have included a couple of complete examples just to get an idea of how HE applies the TM to his own trainees. Most likely he didnt because he was afraid people would just do the routine without actually thinking or understanding WHY they were doing it.

anyway, thanks for the info!

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