Any merit in running a 6 day PPL and having 3 PPL days geared towards pursuing a higher 1rm and 3 PPL days geared towards higher reps/hypertrophy style training?
Or is this dumb and would just be a lot of wheel sprinning
Higher 1 rep maxes, like getting stronger in low rep ranges on DB presses and rows?
Or pursuing higher 1 rep maxes like getting ready for a powerlifting competition?
I think so, especially if youāre a 2A as youāll be dedicating first half of the week to training like a 1A and second half like a 2B.
No, that can be a really good, fun way to train.
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Although I have zero interest in competing, I was talking more towards conventional barbell moves. Or, Atleast ābigā exercises. OHP, dead, bench (incline or flat), squat etc.
Iām more like a 3add
Kinda what Iām thinking. You could have two goals and make progress on both sides, strength and size. Which I know arenāt mutually exclusive, I just meant strength in the sense of setting lower rep PRās
I tried this years ago back when I thought I knew more than I did and burned out in like 3 weeks. YMMV but Iāve never thought of going back to that approach.
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Post up a sample week.
I havenāt come up with anything yet. Figure a strength day would be main movement, then 1-2 supplemental lifts. Pump day would be accessories and maybe 1 heavy semi close to main lift thing, like DB bench for bench work on pump day. Idk. Havenāt thought tooooo into it because I didnāt know if it was dumb.
A pitfall I can think of is having too much time between similar styles of workouts. Like if you do Mon-Sat, after your wed workout you wonāt be hitting higher loads again until the following mon. 3 straight days of strength focus could be draining pretty fast. Maybe go:
Push heavy
Pull pump
Legs heavy
Push pump
Pull heavy
Legs pump
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That sounds pretty good 
Fwiw, I wasnāt implying keeping the strength and pump work together was what I was going to do. I honestly didnāt even know where to begin on thinking of order. So, thanks for the sample! It definitely passes the makes sense check for me lol
Ha, youāre right. Not sure why I made that assumption.
No need to apologize man, it was a solid post, that to my beginner eye seems like a solid idea
Age? Easy or hard job/studentEtc?
ā¦basically 21 and ready to eat big, then fine. 30+ not so much.
My knee jerk would say do something like this below, 2 on 1 off. The āfreeā day hit your weak points for very high repsā¦
Why not 30+? Iām 33 and love running PPL 6 day split.
28 on TRT will blast, extremely physical job, already workout 6-7 days a week with unplanned off days here and there due to work/life.
I skimmed the article, Iāll have to wait till I can sit down and read it.
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Heās just too old to remember what young feels like 
(Just joking of course)
I was spitballing with a similar idea a while back
Day 1 push heavy
Day 2 pull reps
Day 3 legs heavy
Day 4 push reps
Day 5 pull heavy
Day 6 legs reps
Heavy day my plan was 3 exercises only
Rep day was for balance and weak points. Heavy days geared at BB and DB, rep days geared towards machines, dbs, bodyweight but no barbells
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Shit I thought you were 40 son
That sounds awesome!
As to the 40ā¦ Iām 28. Almost 29. I was burned out on drugs (no real hard stuff) and alcohol before i got out of high school, and Iāve held a full time job in manual labor since 17, and Iāve never ever worked 40 hours a week 
. So thatās my excuse for looking 40
Iām pretty sure it was gonna be (for example)
Heavy push
- OHP 2x warm up, 1x rest pause heavy
- Incline bench 350 method
- Weighted dips 3x10-12
Heavy pull
- Block pulls rest pause
- Barbell row 350 method
3 weighted chins 3x10-12
Heavy legs
- Box squat rest pause
- Rdl 350 method
- Calf raises
Rep days could be whatever, just get a pump and go home, almost like an active recovery day to promote blood flow
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