Hi coach. Would it be workable to do the following, assuming one wanted to perform all 6 major movement patterns in the same workout, while balancing workload? Double progression would be used. Essentially, each movement pattern gets 2 hard sets per workout, but the intensity bracket flips by tier, workout to workout. These are just sample exercises.
You’re essentially asking how to do full-body every other day. What doesn’t suit you with pre-existing full-body templates? That they’re mostly 3x/wk rather than EOD?
No, the frequency is more or less irrelevant as it pertains to my preferences. 3 days/week or EOD is fine, though I think 3 days/week is more sustainable recovery wise, as progression occurs. No matter. I psychologically prefer doing all big 6 movement patterns in the same session to say 3 or 4.
I’m not saying it’s impossible. But personally, I think it might be a bit much. With the vast majority of my clients, including high level athletes, we can do 3 of the basic movement patterns per session, maybe 4. Even with a lower volume of work, quality starts to suffer after that point.
And even if you only have 2 work sets, because these are all big compound movements you will still need 2-4 gradually heavier warm-up sets. Which still counts as volume.
PERSONALLY, I would not program this way. But you obviously can experiment for yourself.
Thanks Coach, I appreciate it. Would you deem it more sustainable to just do 1 hard set/movement, and still use double progression? I realize the volume is quite low that way, but I think the effort of the set, plus the frequency could compensate. Plus the fact that double progression is awesome, and imo, works faster the fewer sets you do. Granted, faster isn’t always better.
Listen, I’m giving you my opinion based on how I work. It doesn’t mean that other ways can’t work.
But I will not recommend a way to program the 6 basic movement patterns in each workout because it’s not something that I would do. And I’ve done pretty much every type of training there is.
Again. Try it, It might work really well for you.
What I dislike the most is that on top of doing the 6 patterns (which is already a lot of stress on the nervous system), you are using a progression model that drives you to push close to all-out on all those sets. I mean, if 3 of the 6 used the double progression and the 3 others used submaximal sets, it would probably be less bad.
I also don’t like doing only 1-2 work sets for a big lift as the 3rd set is often the best one and it might not be enough volume per session.
Anyway. I don’t like the idea and will not further comment on it. But you might find that it works well for you.