I am in my late thirties doing weights for a few years & grapple three days/week. Recently started training the 2 day RP challenge. It’s going pretty good yet I feel like I want to try a full body template after my current cycle - both 5/3/1 books have three days/week full body templates and I feel it would be difficult to recover. I will use my garage rack & have devised the below template trying to keep workout time to 45’ max and include some hypertrophy. What do you think? Would it work?
I will give it a try - I ‘ll start with 40% training max for my 5*10s and will fine tune the assistance work depending on my 531 progress - I aim to keep session time below 50’.
Thanks Jim - I will go for another option - would be great to see a Full Body Twice/Week template sometime in the future.
tokon the RP is a great template and allowed me to increase reps - mostly gave me strength and some hypertrophy; yet it splits the main work into the two weekly training sessions and I feel that a whole body session template would suit me better given that I train weights every Wednesday & Sunday.
Have to agree. I workout yes, but am I accomplished like Jim? No. So I may ask stupid questions not to be annoy, but to learn and understand. And when someone as astute as Jim says NO I sure as hell would take his advice. Especially as he is offering it for free.
[quote]Arxaios wrote:
Thanks Jim - I will go for another option - would be great to see a Full Body Twice/Week template sometime in the future.
tokon the RP is a great template and allowed me to increase reps - mostly gave me strength and some hypertrophy; yet it splits the main work into the two weekly training sessions and I feel that a whole body session template would suit me better given that I train weights every Wednesday & Sunday.
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If you really think of it you realize that doing full body twice a week is not so complicated. You just need to pull, press and squat in both workouts. I would personally try something like this if I were you:
D1: Squat 3/5/1
Bench 3/5/1
DB rows (at least 50)
Light assistance (maybe some shoulder work, or whatever)
Or if you are willing to do 6 week cycles, this would be good also:
D1: Squat 3/5/1
Bench 5x10 ss 5x10 db rows
Light assistance (maybe some shoulder work, or whatever)
D2:
Press 3/5/1
SLDL 5x10
Light assistance (abs)
Then for the next week just do Bench and DL with the 3/5/1 and do squats/presses with 5x10 work. Remember to do some pulling movement to your upper body (chins/rows) at least once a week.
Latter isn’t the fullbody routine, but you would train your body completely twice a week. Jim himself did something like this for a while, if I remember right.
Rattus what you suggest looks like a good program - for now I 'll implement Jim’s Full Body Training template as set out in the beyond book in 6 week cycles doing two sessions per week with some added light assistance. As far as I understand the 6 week cycle you proposed has some similarities to that template - thank you for your input.
I’ve been doing two a week training using a template I got from Chad Wesley Smith. You’ll do 5/3/1 deadlift with juggernaut overhead press and vice versa then 5/3/1 squat with juggernaut bench and then vice versa.
I would stongly recommend you just try it and see if it meets your goals. The weights will give you better feedback on your progress than the internet ever will.
If you’re dead set on hearing feedback, just post it as another thread. The only reason I replied to this was it came up on my notifications that someone liked one of my posts from 4 years ago, I can’t imagine you’ll get many other responses.