Thread: modified 5x5
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Old 09-06-2007, 10:05 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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Well basically the original routine is the Madcow one with high pulls on Wendnesday instead of deads. I actually think that is pointless since high pulls are very similar to powercleans. Kind of like a powerclean without the clean. You already have two sessions with a power lift in there so why not take the oppurtunity to do a HEAVY pull on wednesday. I.E. deads. With that said I've always favored just doing 1 or 2 sets of 5 for deads on that instead of the ramped sets. And keeping the militaries to 3 sets of 5...at least at first.

What you've done with the modified version is tried to replace powercleans with deads. They are not even close to being interchangeable. Like anuj said that is killer volume for deads. If you don't want the powercleans then you would have to replace them with something like rows or another OL pull like the high pulls or hang cleans or whatever you like.
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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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