EDT and Full Body Workouts...How?

Training Bodybuilding
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I really like the EDT principles but how would one go about incorporating that full body training 3 times per week? Any suggestions?

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How about a modified EDT approach and not quite full body workouts…

Monday
Squats
Military Press
Chins

Wednesday
Deadlifts
Bench Press
Seated Rows

Friday
Power cleans
Dips
Curls

Each exercise gets a 15 minute PR zone or possible the 1st exercise gets 15 minutes but the second two exercises are paired and get a PR zone of twenty minutes. Could work - but like most programmes only for 4-6 weeks before a change is necessary.

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[quote]Patch wrote:
How about a modified EDT approach and not quite full body workouts…

Monday
Squats
Military Press
Chins

Wednesday
Deadlifts
Bench Press
Seated Rows

Friday
Power cleans
Dips
Curls

Each exercise gets a 15 minute PR zone or possible the 1st exercise gets 15 minutes but the second two exercises are paired and get a PR zone of twenty minutes. Could work - but like most programmes only for 4-6 weeks before a change is necessary.[/quote]

Holy shnikeys that looks like overload. TBT’s intention is frequent BRIEF sessions. I did a version of full body EDT by doing one 15 minute session of major compound movements once per week - it worked well. (did push press, squat, pullup, bench, deadlift). I would expect the above rec to be too much work.

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Each work out lasts no more than 45 minutes - if you can’t train hard three times a week for 45 minutes per session, you need to look very hard at your recovery stratagies and general conditioning! Seriously though, what are you going to do in 15 minutes? 6-9 sets possibly? 1st few sets are easy anyway so in reality you do maybe 4-5 real work - not really a huge amount of overload when you consider a lot of guys will do 15-20 sets of chest in a single session.

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I was able to knock out 10-13 sets (ie 10 squatting and 13 rowing) in 15 minutes depending on the lift. I was doing core lifts with little rest (30-60 seconds). After 15 minutes of squatting, I would just lay down on the floor for about 5 minutes in a semi-conscious state. I couldn’t possibly do anything productive after that. If done right, I don’t think anyone could. I would sometimes add a second exercise (ie dips on bench day) and/or perhaps some ab / calve / arm work. Pretty much done lifting in 30 minutes. It worked. I can pick any one of the movements from my log to post and show my progression.

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