why do you punish yourself with a boring deload??? I know you have the imagination to come up with something fun that doesn’t put too much stress on your body.
can’t wait for my deload 
I say take the somolov challenge - you have plenty of time to get back on 5/3/1 for september.
Smolov. Argy. I will certainly follow if you go this route. I’ve only done Smolov Jr. Think I’ve said that before. And it’s really tough. I’d love to be able to run a Smolov cycle right now.
Joe - no deload since september?
not that Im smart enough to take one myself.
I actually enoyed the delaod weeks while on 531-
very solid training Joe
[quote]tyrfryer wrote:
Hihowareya, lurked in your log & seen your posts in others’ logs, been meeanign to tell you nice work man. Inspiring for sure. Definitely interested to see what you do next. [/quote]
Thanks, mostly I just try to pick a effective program and then follow it as well as I can.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
why do you punish yourself with a boring deload??? I know you have the imagination to come up with something fun that doesn’t put too much stress on your body.
can’t wait for my deload
I say take the somolov challenge - you have plenty of time to get back on 5/3/1 for september.[/quote]
You are, of course, absilutely right.
Back when I deloaded regularly on 5/3/1 I would do the main lift deload and then just do whatever.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Smolov. Argy. I will certainly follow if you go this route. I’ve only done Smolov Jr. Think I’ve said that before. And it’s really tough. I’d love to be able to run a Smolov cycle right now.[/quote]
I am going to run Smolov with Smolov jr for bench as I couldn’t figure out another method for working bench that would work.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Joe - no deload since september?
not that Im smart enough to take one myself.
I actually enoyed the delaod weeks while on 531-
very solid training Joe
[/quote]
Yeah smart training is not a hallmark of this log.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Joe - no deload since september?
not that Im smart enough to take one myself.
I actually enoyed the delaod weeks while on 531-
very solid training Joe
[/quote]
Yeah smart training is not a hallmark of this log.[/quote]
Mine either…
Base Mesocycle Week 1 Day 1
4x9x250
Smolov Jr. Bench Cycle Week 1 Day 1
6x6x185
I couldn’t figure out what sort of bench routine to do while I did Smolov so I figured what the hell I’ll do a Smolov Jr cycle for bench. Probably a mistake but what the hell.
Pretty sure thats the most reps I’ve ever done at 250.
This ought to be very interesting.
Eat, eat, eat!
james
I think you should change your log title. Something more uplifting. Here are a few suggestions:
Succeeding at Smolov
Surmounting Smolov
Subjugating Smolov
You get the idea.
I can’t wait to see how you do with this program. Major vicarious following along on my end.
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
This ought to be very interesting.
Eat, eat, eat!
james[/quote]
The Smolov discussion say eat 4,000 cals/day but I’m not sure I could eat that much if I tried. I’m going to do my best to get the food in though.
4x9x250… Damn Joe! Now I’m really tired!
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I think you should change your log title. Something more uplifting. Here are a few suggestions:
Succeeding at Smolov
Surmounting Smolov
Subjugating Smolov
You get the idea.
I can’t wait to see how you do with this program. Major vicarious following along on my end.[/quote]
If I make it through the base mesocycle I will change it to Stomping Smolov.
I just don’t want to be that guy who talks about how he is going to own this, to smash that and then always fails to do so.
be very curious to see how you respond to smolov, nice work
[quote]PeteS wrote:
be very curious to see how you respond to smolov, nice work[/quote]
Honestly Pete me too.
Squatting has always been my worst lift and I figure this should fix that if I can get through it.
Right now I’m just staying focused on getting through the base mesocycle. Then teh switching should give me enough of a break to prepare for the intense phase.
I’m going to give it my all because I really hate to fail at anything.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
I think you should change your log title. Something more uplifting. Here are a few suggestions:
Succeeding at Smolov
Surmounting Smolov
Subjugating Smolov
You get the idea.
I can’t wait to see how you do with this program. Major vicarious following along on my end.[/quote]
If I make it through the base mesocycle I will change it to Stomping Smolov.
I just don’t want to be that guy who talks about how he is going to own this, to smash that and then always fails to do so.[/quote]
Joe. not sure why this statement bothers me…
Fail, the way you are using the word, is NOT something I associate even a smidgeon with you!
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
This ought to be very interesting.
Eat, eat, eat!
james[/quote]
The Smolov discussion say eat 4,000 cals/day but I’m not sure I could eat that much if I tried. I’m going to do my best to get the food in though.[/quote]
4000 kcal CLEAN = Tough!
4000 kcal Not so CLEAN = Not so tough!
I’m struggling with 3200 and need to push to 3500.
Good luck my man! Your body is gonna want some fuel.
4000 cals a day is A LOT!! Sounds fantastic. I’m sure I could do it
I’m with Up, there’s no failing at Smolov! Surmounting Smolov indeed!
Looks fun, Joe. I’m following along!
I’d go with Mounting Smolov.
I’m with Pete and ddot.
And Ms. Masch, “fun” and “Smolov” don’t intersect! Although I do think there should be a vodka named Smolov.