Rob's Road to Hercules: Contest Prep

@The_Myth - Thanks for reading man! That 10 Steps to Mass is an awesome program, cool to hear you’re doing it. Regarding the length of the workout, mine took about 90 minutes, I attribute that mostly to my warm up sets for the compound movements, and longer rest periods during the squats and bench. I’d push the squats pretty hard. I’ve always favored lots of warm up sets in general, especially for certain strength based movements or compound movements. For this program specifically, I also did a good amount of warm up sets for the first exercise, DB clean press, as some days you go heavy and I always want to be very careful with the shoulders as they’re typically one of the more common problems/injuries.

Again, that was just for me, my workouts typically take a while. If you can push it hard and get it done in an hour, nothing wrong with that.

Looking back I remember I kept a [training log] (8 weeks of Dan John's Mass Program) while working on it for the first few weeks. I did the program longer than I ran the log, it was a great program for both size and strength. Reading back on my squat numbers I got to up to 360x10 on my 5th set, while starting the program much lower than that at 300x10. I stopped back squatting recently due to some lower back/spine compression issues, but I do remember Friday’s “C” workout, the 5 sets of 10 squats were killer!