Alternating Heavy Squats and Deadlifts Weekly

Training Powerlifting
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I see people are researching my old posts. I did better on low frequency training when I was a young pup in college before I’d ever seen a vial of testosterone.

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[quote]Discobolus wrote:
I see people are researching my old posts. I did better on low frequency training when I was a young pup in college before I’d ever seen a vial of testosterone. [/quote]

Just remembering old posts. But, OK, then.

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[quote]Discobolus wrote:
I see people are researching my old posts. I did better on low frequency training when I was a young pup in college before I’d ever seen a vial of testosterone. [/quote]

Low frequency in general? Or something similar to what I had outlined? Thanks man.

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Today didn’t go as well as I had hoped. I set 5 pound PRs on all my second attempts, but missed my third attempt on all the lifts. It was just a bad day, no pop on weights that should have flew up. No excuses, just time to regroup. I’m going to be starting a new 5/3/1 template next week and will be getting every lift in each week.

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[quote]Discobolus wrote:
Today didn’t go as well as I had hoped. I set 5 pound PRs on all my second attempts, but missed my third attempt on all the lifts. It was just a bad day, no pop on weights that should have flew up. No excuses, just time to regroup. I’m going to be starting a new 5/3/1 template next week and will be getting every lift in each week. [/quote]

sorry to hear man! PR’s are still PR’s though.

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[quote]tylerkeen42 wrote:
this may be a situation where the OP isn’t so much best going off of a weekly schedule but just by a certain minimum number of days in between.[/quote]
This is a great programming scheme that I believe not too many people employ, and I think that’s mostly because of the convenience of having a specific day of the week as deadlift day, then squat day, etc.

I think some would benefit from abandoning the standard seven day week programming and instead go with minimum rest days between lifts, something like “lift-rest-rest-lift-rest-rest-lift…” with rest days being rest from a specific lift, not from all lifting unless that is desired.

I started resting three days between deadlifts and squats, and it worked out great; it meant that I deadlifted or squatted every eighth day instead of every seventh, and the added recovery day made a lot of difference.