[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
Got the E-Book, great read.
I’m going to start on 5/3/1 in about a month. I’m going to a 4-day music festival that will essentially take a week out of my life when I factor in preparation for it, travelling and the post-festival recovery period so I think I’ll hold off on starting 5/3/1 until I’m recovered from that music/beer/weed/sex fest.
Anyways, I’ve read through a good prtion of this thread(and the other two) but I still have a question that was probably answered somewhere along the line I just didn’t see it.
I’ll probably start off with the BBB template for 4 days a week but I’d rather structure it like this:
Monday - Squat
Tuesday - Bench
Thurs - Deadlifts
Friday - OHP
This structure alright or does it really not matter as long as you follow the principles correctly?[/quote]
That sounds ok, just try it out and see what it does for ya. The key thing is to have enough time betwen training sessions to recover.
[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
Got the E-Book, great read.
I’m going to start on 5/3/1 in about a month. I’m going to a 4-day music festival that will essentially take a week out of my life when I factor in preparation for it, travelling and the post-festival recovery period so I think I’ll hold off on starting 5/3/1 until I’m recovered from that music/beer/weed/sex fest.
Anyways, I’ve read through a good prtion of this thread(and the other two) but I still have a question that was probably answered somewhere along the line I just didn’t see it.
I’ll probably start off with the BBB template for 4 days a week but I’d rather structure it like this:
Monday - Squat
Tuesday - Bench
Thurs - Deadlifts
Friday - OHP
This structure alright or does it really not matter as long as you follow the principles correctly?[/quote]
That sounds ok, just try it out and see what it does for ya. The key thing is to have enough time betwen training sessions to recover.
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Its perfect…thats what I’ve been doing for the past 6 months and have seen awesome gains…You are getting 3-4 days in between lower body and 3-4 days in between upper body…can’t ask for better recovery…plus it allows you to prioritize your weakest lift by putting it first in the week such that you’ve had a full 3 days to recover from ANY lifting period and also to put your least stressful day (OHP) at the end of the week.
[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
Got the E-Book, great read.
I’m going to start on 5/3/1 in about a month. I’m going to a 4-day music festival that will essentially take a week out of my life when I factor in preparation for it, travelling and the post-festival recovery period so I think I’ll hold off on starting 5/3/1 until I’m recovered from that music/beer/weed/sex fest.
Anyways, I’ve read through a good prtion of this thread(and the other two) but I still have a question that was probably answered somewhere along the line I just didn’t see it.
I’ll probably start off with the BBB template for 4 days a week but I’d rather structure it like this:
Monday - Squat
Tuesday - Bench
Thurs - Deadlifts
Friday - OHP
This structure alright or does it really not matter as long as you follow the principles correctly?[/quote]
That sounds ok, just try it out and see what it does for ya. The key thing is to have enough time betwen training sessions to recover.
[/quote]
Its perfect…thats what I’ve been doing for the past 6 months and have seen awesome gains…You are getting 3-4 days in between lower body and 3-4 days in between upper body…can’t ask for better recovery…plus it allows you to prioritize your weakest lift by putting it first in the week such that you’ve had a full 3 days to recover from ANY lifting period and also to put your least stressful day (OHP) at the end of the week.
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[quote]imcleish wrote:
Hey Jim, love the ebook. I’m recovering from adrenal fatigue and had about 6 weeks of real light work and now I’m chomping at the bit to get back. took a deload week this week and gonna start back monday with some real light training maxes to try to get the most outta this great program.
Anyway, my question has to do w/conditioning work and please forgive me if this has been covered already, but I did not see it in this thread or the other two. I know you’re a big fan of hills, so when you run hills or sprints do you take full recovery in between reps (ie walk back to where you started or down the hill in the case of hill runs) or use the stopwatch as your guide for recovery. The biggest hill I can find here takes me about 9 seconds to sprint to the top, and I end up taking about 30-40 sec to walk back down and start again, a bit longer the more I do. Does this seem pretty legit or would you recommend less recovery time? Also do you do any conditioning work at all on deload weeks? I’ve taken it off completely in the past…
thanks,
Ian[/quote]
When I first started running hills (again), I just set a “number of hills to run” goal and took a Malcolm X attitude. After a few weeks of 3-4 days/week hill running, I timed my “nomral” rest period (how long I rested between sprints) and used that as a gauge of how long I should rest between sprints.
But the easy answer is this; once you get down to the bottom, rest a minute.
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Great, thanks Jim…so the same with the prowler then too? like a minute or so?
and how about deload weeks? do you do any conditioning, or just cut down the volume?[/quote]
In the beginning, don’t worry about the rest period. Just get the goal number done.
Deload weeks and conditioning: depends on what goal you are shooting for.
[quote]Jim Wendler wrote:
Deload weeks and conditioning: depends on what goal you are shooting for.
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This is something I’ve been curious about as well.
I’m not training for a meet or anytype of competition, just to get a lot stronger and be in pretty good shape so I don’t have to be rushed to hospital with a heart attack after a game of football with my friends.
I’m assuming for me and people in a similar training style, that some good starting advice would be to simply listen to your body. If you feel able for them during your deload weeks, then fair enough. If you don’t feel able and feel drained or tired(hell, even if you just don’t feel like extra conditioning that day) then simply don’t do it.
If you feel able for conditioning on your deload weeks but start to stall or even regress on your main lifts, back off on the extra work on the de-load week.