Just took a look at 4 and 5 day Ed Coan routines and I am interested in them. Are these routines useful for more advanced lifters? Would you have to eventually have to extend the cycle the more weight you can lift?
When you are working up to your work sets how much do you lift on these warmup sets and for how many sets and reps? Also how does the assistance exercises work I’m assuming you it shouldn’t be too hard? thanks in advance!
[quote]casperthegst wrote:
Just took a look at 4 and 5 day Ed Coan routines and I am interested in them. Are these routines useful for more advanced lifters? Would you have to eventually have to extend the cycle the more weight you can lift? When you are working up to your work sets how much do you lift on these warmup sets and for how many sets and reps? Also how does the assistance exercises work I’m assuming you it shouldn’t be too hard? thanks in advance![/quote]
Watch the videos on YouTube. Or you could just look at my training log.
CS
Exactly which routines are you talking about?
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
Exactly which routines are you talking about?[/quote]
[quote]casperthegst wrote:
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
Exactly which routines are you talking about?[/quote]
www.deepsquatter.com/strength/archives/MINE/coanpln.htm
www.deepsquatter.com/strength/archives/MINE/coanpln.htm[/quote]
They got the gist, but not quite right. Don’t follow these.
CS
[quote]casperthegst wrote:
[quote]black_angus1 wrote:
Exactly which routines are you talking about?[/quote]
www.deepsquatter.com/strength/archives/MINE/coanpln.htm
www.deepsquatter.com/strength/archives/MINE/coanpln.htm[/quote]
These are confusing as hell. What calculator did they use to set up the weights?
Honestly, if you’re looking for a peaking-style cycle, use one of these:
I’m currently doing a program using this one, from that page: joeskopec.com/coancalc.html
With a dedicated squat, bench, and deadlift day. Assistance work is mainly hamstrings and low back for the squat day, shoulders and triceps for the bench day, and most of my back work coming on the deadlift day. It’s something I wrote for myself, obviously, so you could do whatever you felt like.
You know when I read your thread title I thought you were literally asking for someone to explain “Ed Coan”. Like, explain how such a man exists.
Here’s the deal: Ed Coan is actually an alien from a planet with much stronger gravity than our own, sort of like superman. Except he can’t fly, because that just doesn’t make any sense.