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Old 08-24-2007, 11:34 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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I watched the vids some more. Even on the third set I can't pinpoint anything to comment on like this is a weak link, or your doing this wrong or whatever. I think you're just finding out how damn tough it is to do this routine.

From what I have seen and given that you are not sure you can add weight to the bar but once a week I really don't see the point of squatting heavy three times a week. At this point I think you may be better off at introducing a lighter squat in the middle to get some recovery time. I think that would probably help you. That is if simply eating more and resting more and any number of things wouldn't help but you can never account for every variable and I think it's safe to say that a little extra rest would be more productive here.

You could use a lighter squat in the middle day or reduce the volume. Or both. I would recommend you go to 70 or 75 percent of the working weight at that time and use that....

Front squats for that day may also be helpful if you are interested in them but I acutally prefer just a lighter squat as I disagree that front squats just because they are lighter weight automatically constitue good recovery days.

Another thing I doubt you have considered is you may be only able to add 5 pounds once a week with good form with good form but it could be possible to add, say, 2 or 2.5 pounds thrice a week...which would still be a little faster progress. This is called microloading. There are some discussions of it in one or two of the other journals.
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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.
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