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I might have to lighten the load on squats for Friday. Don't think the soreness will be gone by then. This was my first time doing squats on a rack instead of a sled or machine so I really had to fight to keep my knees in the same position, wanted to come together. The lighter weight will give me a chance to make sure my form is correct.

No, dude that's the problem. There is no one article you're going to get all the answers from. That's what is irritating to me and why I made the bb.com comment. It doesn't work that way. People are just regurgitating stuff they read in an article on time or a couple of times. You got to dig deep, cross reference, experiment, synthesize. I could probably point you to ten different writeups and you'd still have unanswered questions, I certainly still do.

I mean I will post some stuff...but most of this stuff is an amalgem...I don't know where is all comes from anymore. But I must caution against making a mountain out of a mole hill. Focusing a bunch of attention finding the "just right" rest periods for all the different things you do is probably not going to pay off in the long run. Some of this should be farily instinctual. Which is why it's beyond me that people would advice the rest period of someone looking for endurance to someone on a beginning strength program.

The goals of your training should dictate this stuff pretty well but keep in mind that the period you rest between sets can always be shortened for an endurance effect or lengthened for a strength effect. You got to look at the different parameters and put them on a continuum of importance. But for the love of God I wish people would stop paying word service to the words strength and intensity without really MEANING it. Peoples real goals become clear in the choices they make.

I shudder to think what would happen to people when they are not relying on intensity cycling to get used to these rest periods before making a run at loading the bar. It'll hit you like a ton of bricks if you start going balls to the wall in terms of intensity and only manipulate volume. Likewise the idea that and extra 90 seconds wouldn't make a difference between getting that last one or two reps on your 5x5 sets and not getting them? That is just fantasy. And in the end, getting your reps, yeah, I think that is going to be more productive than sticking to one short rest period.

But I'll try to post some stuff, dude, haha.

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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.

sounds good, I dont mean to make it seem like your doing all my research for me, far from it. And your right, most of the time it should be pretty much instinct. but for somethings you need to go against your instinct ... ie depleation workouts.

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I don't really get into all of that so I wouldn't know.

yeah I know, mr. i dont need to cut hahahah.

Cradler, dont ever worry about being "right" on here, its only the internet, if its not "right" someone will correct it, as we see here in this glaring example of my ignorance on the subject of rest intervals.

yeah...ya big jackass

i always liked 3 minutes or more of rest on rippetoes

^^Yeah, I didn't say it before because I didn't know if it was "right" or not but sometimes on SS I'd take 4-5 min. between sets. Shit wore me out.

Haha I'm not worried about being right or not in general... I've gotten used to being wrong But since I was semi-giving advice to the OP I figured I would stick with what I thought was the consensus. Turns out I should have gone with the honest answer haha. But I will keep that in mind hrdgain!

Just give me some time....