Mark your calendars, prep your meals, and grab your lifting belt. The 5th T-ransformation is on. Yeah okay, gyms have opened, closed, reopened, and reclosed, and plenty of people are tired of hearing the word “vote” nowadays, but we’re going for it anyway. What: A physique challenge. Start in some …

How can you do 90% x 5 reps? Clusters?

Keep in mind 5/3/1 uses a training max: not a 1rm.

[image] T3hPwnisher: For sure. I will take longer rests on week 3, when the weights are heavier, for that very reason. For the second question: same thing. I will use shorter rests next week when the weights are lighter, because I won’t need as long to recover. My confusion probably stems fr…

[image] EyeDentist: Is there a point at which you would conclude the weights being used were too light? Not based off brevity, no. The training max is established before the program begins, and mine was easy to determine as I was coming off another 5/3/1 program and came VERY close to some r…

@EyeDentist It’s worth noting that I got the nod from Jim Wendler himself when I used this approach in the past [image] Building the Monolith Workouts in Under an Hour Jim Wendler 5/3/1 Coaching This is some serious work/commitment - very good to read about this. For wha…

[image] T3hPwnisher: The amount of exertion I employed [image] T3hPwnisher: without being able to actually experience the training session, [image] T3hPwnisher: I’d have to base it off exertion employed. I hadn’t realized that perceived exertion was so important in your self-ass…

[image] EyeDentist: In that regard: If the exertion required by your first 90x5 squat-set had been greater than what you felt was appropriate for the first of five 90x5 sets, how would you have adjusted? I’d have to experience that scenario to be able to say. Depending on the situation, I’ve…

[image] EyeDentist: BTW, and if anyone’s wondering, there is a point to all this that I hope to get to (eventually). I’m curious

Here’s what I’m getting at. In his recent writings, Coach Darden rejects the long-held central dogma of Nautilus/Jones training, ie, that the key to growth is taking a muscle to failure. Instead, he now maintains that ‘metabolic conditioning’–doing a few movements hard but not to failure, with no r…

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@EyeDentist It’s worth noting that I got the nod from Jim Wendler himself when I used this approach in the past

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