I noticed that in this Elitefts (Dave Tate) video: Know the Trapdoors of Your Training Program - Jim Wendler | elitefts.com - YouTube, it seems Jim Wendler is suggesting that his athletes do FSL 5x5 instead of the FSL 5x10 for the Leader phase of Krypteia? Also I got the impression that FSL 5x5 is only for the lower body lifts and FSL 5x10 for the bench press.
Thanks all.
Read what it says in the book, obviously…
That’s in the context of training a football team. Personally I’d just follow the book myself. Unless Jim swoops in and calls me a dum dum
Dunno about krypteia but that vid/talk is full of gold!
might repost it later
As an ex coach, climbing, I love the parts of that video that talks about coaching kids. It is amazing the differences you can see. And I completely agree, you coach what you know. If a kid gets solid basics from the coach it’s amazing where they will take it.
On a personal note, I’ve also moved to mostly bench and trap bar deads for my training as I’m always trying to improve some other sport outside of the weights room. Interesting to see that’s his approach for in season.
Sorry, what was the question again?..
There was no question. Not sure if the video was confusing.
Apologies for being unclear. Should I be doing FSL 5x5 instead of FSL 5x10 if I’m playing a sport? I play rugby.
I don’t know. We sometimes do 50 total reps. Depends on other factors in your training. Base it on your running volume and recovery. Also depends on athlete. The slower athletes can get away with it. But not if they aren’t in great shape AND have form dialed in. Krypteia is tricky if you don’t know what to look at.
Again - I don’t train you so I don’t know answer.