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Look at @mortdk’s log. He’s finishing up CT’s Simple Guaranteed Strength and Size program and hit or matched PRs on every lift - and he never missed a rep in 14 weeks.
I had the same experience. Some days felt great and others sucked but I followed the program and hit my goals.
You also keep adding strongman stuff to your training. I doubt that’s part of the squat program. The extra stuff can take care of that extra energy you have. Enjoy the seemingly easy sessions while they’re here. Someday you’ll be putting 4 plates on the bar for every workout.
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I have never failed a rep on squats.
What do you mean? The program is cube method for squats. Its made to be for increasing your squat not specifically the only leg work you do. I do pure leg work on a Tuesday so squats+assistance and fridays is my lighter squat day (rep squats) +strongman events.
I think strongman events are great for increasing the squat and deadlift. The core strength built from loaded carries like yoke/farmers etc or a front carry cant be replicated by like an ab wheel. Also strongman events build the hell out of your bacl. If you yoke walk with hundreds of kg a barbell for squats feels like nothing on your back. Also atlas stones work the hell out of your lower back and posterior chain. Atlas stones works pretty much every muscle group actually. You have to be squeezing the stone with your whole upper body. My chest has gotten sore the day after atlas stones. I rambled on a bit but i think anybody could benefit from implement training including powerlifters.
I think we’re similar but i thrive off of intensity. If the squats are easy like they are it kind of annoys me amd i think i wont progress or something. Pushing the assitance work intensity helps. Now that @Koestrizer put it into perspective i can relax a bit knowing i will improve if i follow the program like i already have.
My goal for next year is to front squat 180kg. I know i can achieve it. The year after that i will definitely be having 4 plates on the bar consistently
Which “squat day” was is? The Cube uses pretty specific loads for training different “qualities.” One day is for explosiveness and technique. This day is supposed to feel lighter, so you can move the bar faster and more precisely.
With a program like this, you don’t want to mess around adding a bunch more reps and throwing off the scheme. You’ll do “different” work on the other days that is heavier, or closer to failure.
Also, like koestrizer mentioned, it’s working! Don’t mess it up!
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I do the lighter day on fridays and the heavier day on tuesday. I set it up this way because the heavier day has alot less sets so it’s quicker and lower body day takes long enough already. It’s worked great so far.
I’ve never viewed it in that perspective before. Smart thinking.
Alright
My point is that you’re adding to your program. You can’t keep adding and adding and adding. If you started pushing your squats then you might find that it’s too much overall work for the week.
Keep the squats the way they are. Having fuel left in the tank from squats is allowing you to work on the strongman stuff. You don’t want to throw off the balance, do you?
- go to the gym and don’t get injured
- progress
- enjoy your time at the gym and between the sessions (at least not suffering between sessions due to difficult recovery)
can you check the items above? if yes then good program if not bad program.
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This never happens. I recover extremely fast. Adding some reps/ weights on Squats wont do much (I’m sticking to the program but just saying) the only time i get worn out too quickly is from too much volume accumulated. that fries my cns.
If something feels bad i shut it down early. If an exercise feels risky i try to learn proper form or i ditch it. I avoid injury as much as i can. I’ve started doing alot of mobility work and stretching.
I enjoy intensity. So the harder something is the more i like it. I dont like upper body days but i make myself do them because it’s necessary.
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That’s a good idea. It would really build my explosiveness too. Im on week 2 but i restarted the program since in 6 weeks i added 20kg to my squat. It was never difficult or hard to complete. Looking at weeks 7,8,9 they are easy also apart from the max effort lifts. I don’t like testing 1rm’s. I feel that is useless in training and to be saved for competition. I can know if i progressed on a lift if i go from doing 100kg×10 to 120kg×10.
@danteism for Overhead press whats your opinion on heavy lockouts. So setting the barbell up on pins 2 or so inches from lockout and overloading the triceps via heavy lockouts reps/holds
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well then, your program works. no need to change until it doesn’t. no need to follow some written code to the letter, just check the three items.
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Then isn’t the weight too light?
Thats what what i think. However it works like everyone said i guess. I’ll just try manipulate it and make it harder by doing them more exlosively etc
@danteism i literally have major doms in my whole back, quads, glutes and hamstrings. Snatch grip deads are brutal! Im going to run a couple of training cycles including them. If i get bored i’ll do them paused or a variation of them like with chains etc.
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You’re welcome 
Never done them myself, as most power racks are not tall enough for me to do it. I’ve done seated top half OHP , though and that does work, so I don’t see why a standing variation wouldn’t work.
2 inches from lockout may be a bit short unless you want to use it as a neural primer though
Duke maybe you should just do whatever you want. You are young enough to make mistakes and learn the hard way like most of us older members on here have.
You asked if you should add to the program because it feels too easy and most of the answers said No. But as you seem to be in a rush to be the best you can be (which all of us were too at some point) then change what ever you want. If you can cope with it you may progress faster, if you can’t you’ll get beat up won’t progress and have to start again.
I don’t want this to come across as grumpy or aggressive, I mean it in the nicest possible way.
You are very young and have years of trial and error (lots of errors) ahead of you in life. Sometimes the best way to learn is to make up your own mind, learn from it and deal with the consequences.
Good luck
Thankyou kind sir 
Also i was thinking since it’s such a great exercise so i dont get bored of it (i usually ditch exercises after a few weeks) heres my variations list. I was thinking each cycle do a variation for a while.
Snatch grip block pull
Snatch grip deficits
Paused a couple of inches from the ground snatch grip deads (basically different pauses etc, at floor reasoning because thats where i struggle (weak point)
Tempo snatch grip deads (slow eccentric)
Snatch grip deadlift with shrug at the top
Snatch grip Romanians
Etc etc. Thoughts?
Haha #Tall people problems.
I do like neural priming. It works quite well. I might do a couple of inch For neural priming then increase the rom for triceps/top end work
This is true. Basically i want to get as strong as i can as fast as i can so i can compete and be competitive.
This is because the 8 months lost of no lifting is 8 months where i could have gotten alot stronger than i am now. Also, To compete i need to be alot stronger. If you believe in yourself and train hard you’ll get stronger. I don’t believe anyone successful has gotten to where they are without pushing the limits of what they thought was possible. I may mot have elite genetics but i have a work ethic and drive to do whatever it takes to be australias strongest man, win the arnolds and compete at worlds and win that too. Whatever weight that division may be I’ll do it. Even if it takes 20 years, 8000 calories a day, A whole team of Professionals, Steroids whatever. Fuck being weak like i am now. Thats shit. I’d rather be dead then live my life being a weakling. In the words of Eddie Hall: “I dont want to be an average guy, i want to be extraordinary. To do that you have to do extraordinary things, you have got to push the body to the human limits, go beyond what you thinks capable, push through pain barriers, push through mental barriers as well, you take your self to places you wouldn’t have thought people could go to.”
The only issue is i have no clue if i will or not, i have no clue on the fastest way to get stronger. I will stick with the program and keep going until it no longer works but after that I’m going to push the boundaries a bit more and see what happens. I believe it’s alot harder to overtrain then other people think. Especially if i make recovery on point/add food. Its about keeping the glass balanced. If training is sapping the cup and other stressors of life and you’re not filling it back up you won’t progress. Right now the cup is in the right balance so we’ll keep riding this out.
I did not view it as grumpy or aggressive anyway. Thanks man!