OK, lol, thanks everyone.

I think I am going to get banned if you guy's keep talking about Amazon, lol.

Actually, EC says that a good follow up to Max Strength is "building the perfect athlete" which is more "in depth" but uses many of the same principles. But honestly this whole "athlete" thing is a little vague.

I.E. you can have specific goals with the overiding goal of being fit and conditioned without being an "athlete" so the 'building a better athlete" would seem like a pricey thing to get when a great deal of it may not apply.

As much as I like EC..the guy is only like 26 and he falls prey to putting HIS "values" on everyone without knowing he is doing it.

Given that..I would encourage people to extract the "principles" from Maximum Strength and use them to help you develop your on philosophy. There are plenty of principles and ideas there which can be used without repeating the exact program. And that is what Eric expects people to do anyway.

Although I didn't use to be this way there is a big reason not to repeat the exact same thing again...it'll burn you out. It gets boring and uninteresting and psychologically that does not help you reach your goals. I mean that is 16 more weeks.

But the reason I recommend Max Strength back in the day is because it is based on principles rather than methods.

I haven't yet really studied Leigh's training guidelines but I will do that and follow up with suggestions as to strength maintenance. But as I've said in the past people tend to severely overestimate what is needed for simple maintenance. Actually endurance is much harder to "maintain" than absolute strength.

Edit* LOL, I forget how good these guys are. Kane pretty much said the same thing about principles only without blabbering on about it like I tend to do.

If your gaol is to concentrate on fat-burining, some near-maximal work is not going to make your break you. You should be eating enough, etc..

In the max strength program is not the "raw intensity" as load on the bar that would get you it is the "balls to the wall" nature of it, if anything.

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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.