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Originally Posted by Darkhorse
Depends on how much you're doing on the weekends. Your work capacity is probably very high given the amount of GPP involved with olympic lifting as well as your strongman training on the weekends.
I would play it by ear honestly. Definately keep two speed days without a doubt. As for ME, you could probably get away with it depending on how often lifts are rotated. But if you're planning on maxing out with a pull after that kind of a weekend lol, you're a better man than I! It's all about your GPP and recovery. Is there any way you could schedule a ME day as your weekend tire flipping/atlas stones? If you do that, that would take care of your pulling bigtime. Then you'd only have to worry about two speed days, and perhaps an olympic squatting/front squatting day.
Sorry to be so general, but I don't know much about your schedule or work capacity. Or much of anything pertaining to olympic lifting lol.
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Every weekend is essentially a ME/RE day. Stuff like Farmer's walks are just about always taken to max load for distance. Not sure if this counts as an ME/RE... it is a max pick up, then RE walk. Make sense? Most strongman works out like this. In fact, because of that I can usually get out reps with a weight very close to the maximum amount I can do. Like my true 1RM may less than 10% higher than something I can get for 5-6 reps.
Oly stuff is almost all speed work. Not necessarily fast right off the ground, but from the knees up it is as fast as you can pull. Because good form is a must, the weights I use are typically sub maximal efforts (seeing as how a max effort overhead push press might be around 240-250 but I can only cleanly jerk around 200 right now). So even at the top end, my jerks are only like 80% of a normal push press. And far more reps are done at even lower weights than that. The point is to specifically develop speed and explosiveness through the lift. So twice a week I'm getting a pretty good DE day that has good carry over to my cleans and presses... maybe my pulls a bit.
I think I've decided to stop pulling during the week. At least for a while. I'll concentrate on bringing up my front squats, and box squats, and hope that all the Oly stuff and grip work will fill in the gaps on my deadlift. I'll test my max DL in a couple months to see what happens. I'm not against playing guinea pig for my own experiments. If I waste a couple weeks, so be it. I'm confident I won't backslide or detrain. May not make any great progress, but that is fine.