I’ve been running your Complete Power Look program from a few years ago and absolutely love it; I normally break off from a program due to boredom within a few weeks or alter it so extremely that it’s no longer the same one, but running this one almost to a T has been so much fun!
I’m on week 5 now and I have a few questions regarding some changes I would like to make:
Would it be acceptable to swap the 1/2 front squat for a 1/2 bottoms-up front squat? After doing them with the eccentric component, I found I was not a fan of them, but I love the overhead pin press and rack pulls, largely due to the feeling of setting, bracing and then contracting hard to propel the weight.
I’ve incorporated some posterior chain assistance work on my non-deadlifting days (snatch RDL, good mornings, reverse hypers/static hypers, etc) in place of the recommended optional assistance work, mostly because I hate isolation exercise. I haven’t noticed or felt any impact on my deadlift day from the addition of extra posterior chain work, but do you think it’ll destroy me in the long run? It’s all light and nowhere near failure, I just feel like my posterior chain needs more work.
Love your work, coach. I’ve learned a lot from you!
Well, the goal is to overload the pattern, which won’t happen with the bottoms up version. You could use front squat with chains or bands to overload the top