With a new busy schedule starting soon I’m having to cut back to training twice a week.
I’m thinking about doing option 2 from 531 2nd edition for my twice a week training. My question is would spinal tap training be recommended for this option? I wouldn’t do much assistance afterwards maybe ab work on lower body days and some rear delt / lat work on upper body days. I would also use the 5/3 method.
Jim has a 3 day Spinal Volume Tap challenge on his forum and another site he did an interview for. You have to pay to see either of those so I’m not going to reveal the content but judging by that, if you did both the Tap for squat/bench one day and deadlift/press another day it would probably be fine.
This isn’t something I’ve seen Jim discuss ever, but if I was in your shoes I would consider doing something like:
Week One
Day 1:
Squat - Spinal Tap
Bench Press - 5 x 10 @ 50-60%
Upper Back/Lats/Abs
Day 2:
Press - Spinal Tap
Deadlift - 5 x 10 @ 50-60%
Upper Back/Lats/Abs
Week Two
Day 1:
Bench - Spinal Tap
Squat - 5 x 10 @ 50-60%
Upper Back/Lats/Abs
Day 2:
Deadlift - Spinal Tap
Press - 5 x 10 @ 50-60%
Upper Back/Lats/Abs
I feel that doing two full lifts with Spinal Tap loading in one day would be both ridiculously fatiguing as well as very very time consuming. I feel that this set-up would allow you to focus on the Spinal Tap lift for that day and still make progress on the other lift. I could be also right off the ball right here - I’ve never run Spinal Tap before but I’m planning to in 3 cycles’ time.
That is an interesting routine bones. Its something I could see myself looking into.
If you’re an intermediate lifter I’d suggest purchasing Volume Tap from strengthguild (it’s all of 99 cents…) and reading over it.
Contrary to what Littlebones said above, this does indeed involve 2 Tap movements on some days.
[quote]Mr.Sweener wrote:
With a new busy schedule starting soon I’m having to cut back to training twice a week.
I’m thinking about doing option 2 from 531 2nd edition for my twice a week training. My question is would spinal tap training be recommended for this option? I wouldn’t do much assistance afterwards maybe ab work on lower body days and some rear delt / lat work on upper body days. I would also use the 5/3 method.
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This is fine. Just don’t confuse “more volume” with “this is how I excuse my lack of training knowledge”. Supplemental lifts will probably be cut out and assistance will have to be relegated to ab/low back/pulling.
Will do. Thanks Jim.
[quote]panzerfaust wrote:
If you’re an intermediate lifter I’d suggest purchasing Volume Tap from strengthguild (it’s all of 99 cents…) and reading over it.
Contrary to what Littlebones said above, this does indeed involve 2 Tap movements on some days.[/quote]
You could definitely do two Spinal Tap movements in one day. But I think the largest detractor of it would be how time consuming it would be. If you can crush out two main movements by all means do so.