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Training update:

I’m to the point where I no longer have the time or willpower to make the time to train 4 days a week (main sessions). I’m looking to switch to 3 day a week and I’m torn between 2 ways:

  1. Use a 5/3/1 3 day template (looking at 1000% awesome for 2L/1A and then BtM) for a while and effectively use this to be the other part of periodization with conjugate (sub-max, higher frequency, higher volume, more specific). The break from near max work would be nice. Working up that heavy is sort of mentally having its tax on me (leading into sessions. Once I’m in the session I’m fine) with the school work I have but I do find it really really fun

  2. Find a way to run my current programming in 3 days a week. I know U/L async and U/L/F but it kinda seems to violate some of the key principles of conjugate (3 days between sessions). I think that would look like having the full body day as my rep efforts but some other things like doing some lower accessories (less taxing ones) on upper body day and vice versa basically making it 3 day a week full body (now that I write this out, this doesn’t look so bad)

I’ll think about it and come up with something. This was helpful to write it down. Any opinions welcome

@BrandonCrawford I’m glad you posted the other tread because I have been thinking about this over the weekend.

This in specific is what I’m trying to solve haha

Lastly, my quads are still sore from the bodyweight squats. Unsurprisingly, doing them after a few beers and drinking a little more the next day was not a good idea, but it was a really fun weekend so I don’t regret it

Edit: I’ve settled on it. To get my conditioning and recovery up, Ill do the 5/3/1 1000% awesome for 2 leaders/1 anchor, followed by building the monolith, and then switch to a full body conjugate. This way I can adapt to the higher frequency and hopefully have a better volume tolerance leading into another conjugate block

Last edit: I was thinking about this while listening to my motor development lecture and I realized that when I use to do 5/3/1 I didn’t push the accessories or chose correctly because I didn’t know how to. Conjugate you have to push the correct accessories so leading back into a few 5/3/1 cycles with this knowledge will probably be game changing

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