From my experience… Football coaches sometimes make the worst strength coaches.
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I think one should do both. They should chase some kind of number to be able to tell what they’re doing is working.
If someone is training to get bigger and they neglect the ”strength” portion, it comes across as more of a cop-out or playing a game of charades because they fail at making their lifts go up.
Thats a good analogy…
For whatever reason , i thought of a former member of this forum this morning.
I have a question… did anyone on here actually known Professor X in real life off the site? If so how is he?
I’ve often wondered that myself. I know he met up with a few of the older posters. Pushharder comes to mind.
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I wonder how Push is doing as well. It’s probably been close to 10 years since he’s been here, and Prof X even longer.
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@Christian_Thibaudeau trained him during the Indigo Project
Yeah i remember that. X got some shit threw his way over the difficulty he had with 275 on a bench. If memory serves. Didnt help his case because he made a big deal over 400 press on a hammer strength machine in the past.
Ive said this before… i always liked Maraudermeat.
His whole exit from the site was odd.
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He came back once or twice under a different username. Very strong dude.
X or Meat…
Im aware of Meat doing it because he had done it in the O35 a few years ago. Didnt stay long.
“Very strong dude” was the tipoff, haha.
Duh… im slow this morning
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Looked on YouTube… wow most open their mouth before doing their research. One well known coach claimed 5/3/1 didnt have enough volume for hypertrophy. Like most of them … the only version given was the original base template.
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There’s an idea. I’ll give it some thought.
The more I see how other people lift, the more I like Wendler’s use of a training max. (I don’t know if he coined that or if others used it before him.) Too many people expect to be able to perform at too high of a level more frequently than they should.
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Its funny. While a bunch of guys try to science it up with rpe & rir and coin a new metric or training paradigm, he’s like “here, do this.”
And it works. 
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I confess I have realized I have hit middle age because Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers played on the Classic Rock station today….
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He didn’t coin the idea of it, but he definitely brought it back to the forefront. It’s honestly Jim’s talent. He’s Prometheus: taking fire from the gods and bringing it to us mortals. Anchors and Leaders are just periodization explained simply and put into a plug and play style. Same with 5/3/1 itself: just take some numbers, plug them in and hit them. Same with labeling things easy vs hard conditioning and then prescribing sessions. So many of these things required so much hands on coaching, and they’re still more ideal WITH that, but for someone training on their own, 5/3/1 is such a simple way forward.
I confess that, when I was lifting yesterday, at rep 10 of my trap bar lift, my kid came into the garage. Right before that moment, I decided the set was over…but knowing my kid was watching me, I pulled an 11th rep, just to show them that their dad was still the man.
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I find it funny that allot of people dont realize that.
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Nice thing with 5/3/1 which i love. Is because it fits with the K.I.S.S philosophy that i embrace.
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