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Old 08-28-2007, 01:31 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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A couple comments. It looks like your starting weight for the box squat 5x5 sets accross is a little high if I go by what you did for the first day (intensity day). You may want to drop that back some and build it up or else you'll have a shorter run at it. I'm not sure on bench...it may stand to be lowered a bit too, depending on what your increments are. Which leads me to the next question:

Also, what kind of plates do you have. Or, in other words, what kind of increments can you use for loading? Having only plates laid out in kilos can be a little tough to keep progressing if you don't have at least some 2 or 3 kilo ones to use.

Box squats are fine for this but I would think about doing the PR days using regular squats. It just makes sense to do that. Nothing wrong with doing heavy maximimum effort box squats but I wouldn't do that in this case. Box squats in themselves can be a bit problematic on this in terms of hip strains and such so watch out for that and make sure you stretch everything afterwards and try to keep tight while you're sitting on the box and don't let the lower back relax. I take it you have plenty of experience with box squats but in case you've never done them in this hardcore a fashion it is easy to get into some habits that can be problmatic after a while.

Drop the rows on Thursday and put in 3 or 4 sets pullups to failure.
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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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