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Strength I
Foam Rolling / Dynamic Stretching
Back Squat: 1-5RM
Bench Press: 1-5RM
Chin-Ups: 20+ Reps
Weighted Abs
C2 Row Machine

Strength II
Foam Rolling / Dynamic Stretching
Deadlift: 1-5RM
Split Jerk: 1-5RM
DB Rows: 3-4 x 5
Weighted Abs
C2 Row Machine

Completely Off

Chest / Triceps
Foam Rolling / Dynamic Stretching
Incline Bench Press: 5 x 5
DB Decline Bench Press: 3-4 x 8-15
DB Flyes or Machine Flyes: 3-4 x 8-15
DB Floor Press: 1-2 x 15-20
Tricep Pushdowns: 1-2 x 15-20
Stationary Bike

Back / Biceps
Foam Rolling / Dynamic Stretching
Rack Pulls: 5 x 5
T-Bar Rows: 3-4 x 8-15
V-Bar Pulldowns: 3-4 x 8-15
Cable Rows: 1-2 x 15-20
DB Shrugs: 1-2 x 15-20
Preacher Curls: 3-4 x 8-15
Zottmann Curls: 1-2 x 15-20
Abs
Stationary Bike

Legs / Shoulders
Foam Rolling / Dynamic Stretching
Front Squats: 5 x 5
Manual GHR's: 3-4 x 8-15
Leg Curls: 1-2 x 15-20
Calve Raises: 1-2 x 15-20
Seated Military Press: 3-4 x 8-15
Arnold Presses: 1-2 x 15-20
Lateral Raises: 1-2 x 15-20
Stationary Bike

Completely Off

Your program looks weird. I dunno why you'd do heavy squats and deads back to back. Where did you find this program?

^^^ I agree. There would be no way to recover. It's not a very good plan.

It's a program that goes by feel, I won't necessarily hit a personal record or attempt to hit a personal record every strength day. I should rephrase my outline to heavy weight / low reps during the first two workouts, and low weight / high reps during the last three workouts.

I've been lifting for six or so years now and I feel that I know my body well enough to attempt this type of program. I actually took it from natural bodybuilder Layne Norton, except I'm using a lot less volume because of my powerlifting background. I'm in the process of cutting so I'm not going out every week trying to smash PR's but a few will definately come my way.

Best of luck. You're not going to be making optimal gains and you'll be wasting a lot of time and effort, but you should still make some progress. I just don't understand why you wouldn't do something better.

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Whose to say I'll be wasting time? The program is geared more towards muscular hypertrophy, rather than strength gains. The function of the two strength days isn't to gain, but rather maintain or limit the loss of the strength you've acquired while trying to increase muscular endurance, hypertrophy, etc. I know it's not optimal to either strength or hypertophy, but this is simply a means for me to cut down permanently to a lower weight class while maintaining strength and then follow traditional Westside principles and continue on my path.

Having two high intensity strength days back to back is just going to accrue CNS fatigue faster. At the very least you'd want to spread those two out. Why back squat and then deadlift on consecutive days? That's a very poor idea. You're also doing a couple of additional back movements on both days. There is soooo much volume on your hypertrophy days. If you give a decent effort in the gym, you'll burn out in a couple of weeks. It's possible that you're a freak of nature that the laws of physiology don't apply to, and you'll do really well. You're trying to reinvent the wheel by coming up with a totally unconventional workout. There is no way that you're going follow this program to a "T" and have optimal gains. It will have to be modified a lot...even if you ignore me now, you'll end up making changes later because it's not a good routine. You'd be better off IMO to start with something realistic.

I have such poor muscular endurance, from training the past three years never going past five reps in a set, that the weight I can handle on my "hypertrophy" days is laughable at best, which is why I probably don't burn out.

For example:
Back Squat 1RM ~ 500 lbs, past parallel
...I can only Back Squat 135 x 10-12, 225 x 5-8

Goodluck with this and I hope you get some good results.

Thanks man just cutting back down to the 190's. Last year I competed in the 181's and shot quickly up to 220, my college changed the food company they used so I guess that was partly it. Working my way down to the 190's and then getting back to Westside Training.