Evolution of a Workout Routine?

it’s one of the best movie scenes ever. it’s so brilliant.

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on a related noted, I remember a youtube video of a girl being asked about pizza slices. he asked her ‘if we have 2 pizzas, the same sizes, one is cut into 6 slices and one into 8, which one do you want?’ And she insisted over and over again that she wanted the 6 slices, because she can eat 6 but she can’t eat 8. It’s incredible…

actually here it is. and it’s 8 vs 12 slices. had to come back to this point, sorry its disjointed. Man Asks Woman A Trick Question About Pizza & She Continues To Get It Wrong! - YouTube

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12 pieces is way too many. 8 sounds right to me. Just like how I’d rather be 5 pounds stronger today than 5 pounds stronger a month from now.

A technique adjustment might give you a large gain. Much larger than the 5lb suggested for the workout.
I am not that familiar with the scheme to be fair, he may have accounted for this in later editions. I have had the scheme explained to me once I think.

I think you’re still misunderstanding the nature of actual strength progression compared to the rate at which you add weight to the barbell. These are two separate, albeit related things.

Your actual strength progression in 5/3/1, like any other progression scheme, is up to the lifter.

When you do 531, you start out doing above 5 reps. You’re out of the strength rep range, therefore you are not getting stronger. You are getting hypertrophier.

Noob.

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Then you lose your gains every 3 weeks. On Purpose!