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Old 05-12-2008, 01:05 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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I think it may be a good idea to do a test day to see where your 1RM stands for your major lifts.

The doubles are a great idea but it would be good to know just how heavy you really are lifting and plan for that. With max work it's a bit different than volume work. If you are lifting so light that you can "just keep going untill you stall" without that comprimising you then you are probably lifting too light for that amount of volume to be usefull.

On the other hand if it IS heavy enough then you don't want to do it until you outright stall. Remember just having a bad day is not a stall when you are doing the volume work. But with max work you usually do not want to keep plugging away in the face of failure becasue you will end up losing ability.

In the past if you stalled you could just decrease the volume and even up the intensity and unstall yourself. But with max work you need to plan for a limited run and according to what you are doing you need a way to manage it.

Instead of explaining a bunch of theoretical stuff, though, how about you do a testing day (maybe rest up for it a bit or have some easy days)...then it would be much easier for me to help you plan. Or if you think you can give very good estimations...
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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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