Dan Johns Easy Strength Results and Review Part 1: The Numbers
Okay so Dan John program #2 is in the books, and as I look back on this program I realize I was perhaps a bit stupid when I started because I didnt actually max out prior so I didnt actually have a hard and fast number to compare to. The idea of the program is to use “light weights” and grease the groove to build strength that way and I kinda knew what weights to use as a ballpark so I didnt test… So the weights I ended up at were a bit arbitrary based on previous numbers I had hit in the past. Oh well, it is what it is:
Original stated goals:
Military press - Strict push of 165
Ring Pull up - Lets say a set of 5 with BW+ 75lbs hanging (this is ambitious)
Snatch Grip High pull - Triple of 185
dead lift - Goal of 365
Final numbers
Ring Pull ups: Previous best was 50lbx3, and I got it for 5 reps this time and did 75x1. So not anywhere near the goal I set but as I said that was just based on kinda what I thought I would like to hit based on passed numbers. These are still PR numbers though so thats good.
Military press - 165x1 : Not exactly strict but it wasnt exactly a push press either. Not a PR for me but considering I hadnt trained the lift in a while it got me back up into PR territory.
Snatch Grip High Pull - I actually did triple 185. It wasnt pulled quite as high as the 165 set before it, but it went up. This is about what I was doing back when this was a staple lift of mine
Dead Lift - 315x 1 as easy as its ever been, and 335x1 hard rep - No speed or slow down on the rep but it was tough… Could probably have gone higher but I have injured myself enough time dead lifting that I called it there.
Commentary on the final lifts: So as I said I didnt test these before hand so its a bit hard to say how well the program did in lifting them, but considering I had gone away from these lifts for a LONG time getting back to PR type numbers on all the lifts I think proves this program has lots of merit.