Well I guess you're wondering why I'm deviating from the standard model. My reasoning for that is:

1) The original RIP program is very agressive and becomes difficult to heal in time for the next workout. I found that doing deads and squats on the same day was just asking for injury so the middle squat day was cancelled and deads were done just once a week.

2) I don't like having M.Press once a week but I don't really like putting it after bench either. So having this rotating cycle gives M.Press once a week on deads day when you're fresh and a dumbell volume day and a BB heavy day (where its prioritized over bench) the next week. I thought this made a nice balance.

3) Having Rows and Pullups on the same day would always really put a damper on whichever activity came second. So, these activites were made to rotate as well.

I've basically just been trying to find a good balance of hitting the exercises often enough and not getting over fatigued. I find if I train for example bench really hard and then try to press then my press suffers or vice versa. I was trying to minimize the times when an exercise is sacrificed for another. If that makes sense...

Now that I look at it, this program has gotten a bit complicated but its been modified slowly over time from the base rip program.

I read over the 5x5 program again and now I'm interested in that. It might be time to just start fresh with a different program. I dunno.

IronWorker