Yes thanks so now let’s move on from this topic.?
Scott
Something else on this topic people might find interesting: daily training relates to a well established means of IMPROVING the very recovery we’re speaking of: feeder workouts. Similar to what is mentioned in this article by Dave Tate
- Bring up the volume! As stated above, you can train the same muscle more then one to two times a week if done properly (and especially if it’s a weak point.) Whoever came up with this “one time a week” stuff never had to display their strength or bring up a weak point. How are you ever going to get better doing something only one time per week?
There are many ways to change the parameters of a program to accominadate training a muscle more than once a week. You can include a “feeder” workout the day after training a muscle hard to help facilitate recovery. These feeder workouts are light in intensity and medium in volume. For example, if you did heavy glute ham raises on Monday and your hamstrings are sore as hell, then you could do them again on Tuesday with no weight for a few sets of eight reps. This will help to bring fresh nutrients and blood into the muscle. This is also known as a form of active restoration.
In addition to that, CT had previously discussed “Double Stimulation Training”, which again espoused the benefit of training a muscle lightly after training it heavily
Dan John made similar recommendations in “Mass Made Simple”, employing a tonic/recovery workout.
In my own experience, this has been a boon of daily training. I’m rarely ever sore and I’m constantly ready to train. I’m actually cutting warm up sets out of my training where I can these days to save time, and finding that I am suffering no consequences for it.
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Out of all the wild things you do, this is the one that truly blows my mind. I couldn’t imagine not hitting warm up sets. Just thinking about that has my elbows and back hurting
They still feature in my squats, since I’m missing 20% of my meniscus and have a fake ACL…although given my right shoulder has an exploded labrum and is basically held together with hope and spite maybe that doesn’t make any sense, haha. I still have ramp up sets for upper body work, but not much for warm-ups.
Unless it’s a competition. Then there’s no warm-ups, because warming up is stupid.
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Ahh I see. I may be confusing warm ups with ramp up sets. That is what I consider a warm up.
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See, I’d consider a warm-up starting with the bar, then adding some weight UNTIL I get to the ramp up sets. Since I’m using 5/3/1, the lightest ramp up set is 65% of the training max.
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Ah I see. Now I fully understand and am back to that’s still impressive lol
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I will never understand why people do this.
I imagine I’ll never be able to explain it in such a case, haha.
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I do the same… as in starting with the bar that is.
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Scott, imo the 1 variable present as to why none of these sound good is… FAILURE! We(hit, nautilus) are used to going to failure. Not something that you can or want to do every day! I think thats stuck/ ingrained in the back of your mind
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Every person in my gym who benches over 400, squats over 500 and deadlifts over 600 all warmup with the bar. I do too, and when describing ramp up sets, Jim Wendler includes sets with the bar 
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I agree. Not saying its wrong, I just don’t understand why its right.
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Yup. You wanna stay FAR away from failure with daily training. I worked up to my rep numbers after a few weeks of figuring out what works and have stayed there for months. I’m contemplating just now increasing some of the rep totals on the upper body work, and even then it’d be by like 5-10 reps total.
Oh, I dunno the answer to that. I think it just reinforces the movement pattern, haha. It always felt right to me.
I have totally just gone in and gone straight to 135 though, and it never hurt me. Just part of my routine to use the bar at this point, and I’ve seen enough strong people do it that I’m sold.
But yeah - if someone held a gun to my head and made me explain why they need to warmup with the bar, I couldn’t do it.
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In this instance, it’s more that if someone is never going to understand it, there’s no method of explanation that will bridge that.
Having done multiple approaches, it’s obvious to me why to do it, but in the absence of an ability to understand, there’s no way to logic it out.
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Whoooooooosh.
Totally missed your joke there.
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Neuro-type bros!
Muscle dominant types want to start with the bar, work up and feel everything working real nice.
Neural drive dominant dudes just want to blast off!
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Don’t worry, I’ll never understand it.
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What you mentioned along with sneaking in some low intensity volume.
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