Yeah, I mean, whenever you skew the focus in some way making sessions less pure I suppose that’s bound to happen. It’s like all the things I’m sketching on now, either where every training day is dedicated to a main lift, or a hybrid split, but with an added emphasis (training frequency) of the front squat that naturally skews the balance and symmetry a bit.
What is weird is the designs where it’s just tacked on to the end of a normal session ends up looking best. So, start with something that has a nice balance and then just do a little "+ Variation of Front Squats " and it still looks okay on paper.
I fall into that category yes, if we use for instance this as a crude guideline,
Source: What Do You Make of This Training Frequency Study? - #9 by Christian_Thibaudeau
I get 3+1+3+1+5=13pts making me an intermediate but I feel that my pull-ups are inflated from climbing and being relatively light so I’d be more inclined to count it as 3+1+3+1+3=11pts → beginner. Obviously, classifying myself as either has no real value but it helps stop me from chasing shiny things I don’t need yet which is a mistake I made for a long time.
I’m have no doubt that it will, right now I’m just really pissed about my front squat >_<. My back being fucky isn’t helping. But, we’ll see. Last session was great after having done plenty of neck extensions, so I might see a frog-leap of progress there after I get my spine fixed.
Big (lean), strong, and not broken into smithereens.
I don’t remember, did you ever compete in powerlifting?