Well, in the past, I have tinkered with other programs. I know that it’s against the law to, for example, modify 5/3/1, but I ran one of the templates for the past 4months with some changes, lost 20 lbs of fat in the process, and just today, beat my previous deadlift PR by 26 lbs and the squat PR by 10 lbs. Bench remained the same. (Now starting to bulk.) Thus I now have a 2.7x BW deadlift. So I seem to be doing something right.
I’m hoping to reach 5 plates on deads by the end of this year and add at least 30 lbs to my bench.
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Good luck! I’m generally not in favor of modifying a program until I’ve had at least one run through it as written. That way I see how the parts fit together and how I react to it. I can then determine what parts of it I can get away with modifying and what parts would be a terrible idea for me to change.
What you have posted would have destroyed me if I tried it while I was powerlifting. If you are able to recover from it, I have no doubt you’ll get stronger.
I agree with @jskrabac that the revised version looks quite a bit better. I still suggest you find a way to get more rowing or upper back work. Perhaps you do that either through band pullaparts as part of your warmup each day or you could consider replacing the KB work with some rows. Also if you’re going to do KB swings, I’d put those earlier in the session (before your heavy work) UNLESS you are planning to do those as a conditioning finisher. I like swings earlier in the session because for me at least they grease the hinge pattern groove.
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