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Also, what would you recommend for speed work in their absence? I’ve relied heavily on the bands up to now and other than similar means of contrast (chains etc.) I’m not really sure what I’d use.
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Why do YOU think you need accomodating resistance? It's not necessary, and at some point it does help. I used to rotate bands or chains in every so often.
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I do tend to have a lot of exercises in my workouts; the idea was basically to make sure I hit all my weak spots etc.,
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If you really hammer the main lifts, then everything gets worked. "Accessory" means fine tune in my opinion. If your hammies are weak for example, then hit gluteham raises heavy one day, light the other. You don't need mulitple exercises in other words.
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Let’s say in future I were to cut down on a few of the somewhat redundant accessory exercises – would you think I’d be able to get away with slightly more volume (another set, whatever) on the main three exercises of that day?
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Again, why the need for a lot of volume in the first place? Wendler, although I admit is usually running some sort of test, gets away with 2-3 accessory exercises done deal. My view is that YOU'RE IN FAT LOSS MODE.
There's two things you can do: Use volume and really lower the intensity a great deal, OR hit 2 or 3 supplemental or accessory lifts hard and go home.
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I’ve been working in a 1-3 rep range for my max work for a while and was considering rotating in some slightly higher (5s or so) work.
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You could keep a max effort exercise for three week cycles if you wanted. At your level, you don't need rotated weekly lifts. You could examine doing a 5'er, a 3'er, then a 1 RM.. Or something like the 5/3/1 (3x5, 3x3, 5/3/1, deload). Nothing's set in stone.
FAT LOSS = Working on heavy lifting while on a deficit. If you need to burn cals, do some low intensity cardio vs. lots of volume.
Shit, you don't even have to do westide if you didn't want to. Think outside the box. Pick a few compounds and rotate intensity for a block. Meaning week one is medium (3 x 3), second week is light (3 x 5), third is max effort (1 x 3), then deload. Just throwing options out there.
Gotta run!