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Old 07-25-2009, 01:24 AM
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HIThopper thank you. I know that with my ideas I'll be attacked very often. People don't want to see something different which could contradict their own beliefs. When I said that Simmons is wrong, it doesn't mean that he cannot make people stronger BUT that his method is not perfect. Simmons says that when you train at 90% and above you'll overtrain if you do it for more than 3 weeks. That's wrong. It's only true if you train too hard : go to failure at 90% (4RM) or train at 100%. As long as your EFFORT is not too high you'll not overtrain. In the contrary you can overtrain with much lighter loads IF your effort is too high. Take 60% (20RM) and go to failure 2-4x per week and you'll get weaker after several weeks or months at best. Plus their is no evidences that Dynamic Effort workouts are really more productive than heavy loads accelerated at the maximum possible to increase speed and rate of force developpment. Finally the volume is too high, not optimal and the frequency per muscles is too low for optimal rate of progress. All in all his method works but it's FAR from beeing OPTIMAL.

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Standard routine's work, that is why lots of people follow them, you should maybe give one a go sometime
Jonson I tried, it took me YEARS to build my own method. Before that I have used many methods (HST, German Volume Training, HIT, Heavy Duty, "Volume Training", and many others more conventional routines and also some very exotic routines). I'm not saying that you cannot make progress with a "standard routine" but while you are doing 5 sets of bench press you could make the same gains with only one set. Instead of training your chest only 1-2 per week you could make faster progress with 4-7 chest training per week.

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Who knows an idiot's standard routine that everyone follow's may give you a proper 180 Deadlift one where you dont have to round your back and risk injury to get it up
I'll soon test my 1RM again with a Good Form and I think I'll be able to DL at least 170kg and that's only the begining. At the end of the year I'll DL much heavier, at least 200kg. That's a good challenge but I'm sure that my method will deliever such results.
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