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Old 09-25-2007, 02:25 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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Cool Jeff. I think that you are so smart about this stuff you may be out-thinking yourself. Case in point I wanted to hit on one exchange between us again.

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I've also always thought that one PR doesn't lead to another once a bunch of progress has been made. If one PR lead to another, HIT would actually work and volume day wouldn't be necessary. I do understand that volume day is linked to the next volume day, but have always thought of PR day is an expression of your current preparedness.
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Yes, one PR does not lead to another...for the most part.
I've said before that it is a mistake to get caught up in applying "theory" to programming. It almost always works better the other way around: Appying sound knowledge of programming to theory.

Most of what I say about the TM is in regards to people overthinking it. So if someone gets too caught up worring about PR's I'll just say worry about progressing on Monday and tending toward PR's on Friday and everything will work itself out. In other words, keep it simple.

When we start getting into all the if's and and's of theory we can miss some very plain and simple things. We start making assumptions. When I say that progress can be linear from Monday to Monday and linear from Friday to Friday I mean exactly that. That's not just me talking that is Rip talking. Most trainees should definitely be looking for some simple linear progression for both days from week to week.

I think most who are new to this kind of thing in general will do best with sticking at 1x5's on Friday. AND they should expect to simply add some weight to that 1x5 every Friday. So simple linear progression. It is also possible for many to start with a single and add a rep to that every Friday (quite an accomplishment, really). Again simple linear progression.

Once a lot of progress has been made and you can't continue in that way on Friday then it's good to start changing it up with different rep attempts and see where that gets you. This is all assuming that progress is constent on Monday but make no mistake, the linear progress mon to mon and fri to fri is what everyone should start out going for.
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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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