I have been reading a lot of posts at the elitefts site and some Westside guys suggest doing two weeks of repetition work on your ME days to let the CNS recover.
I guess this is similar to what Staley suggested.
i gauge my cns fatigue by how my legs are doing. it doesn’t matter so much with my upper body but i can go for about 6 to 8 weeks on westside and make gains in my lower body but it stops abruptly and i overtrain. so i take a week off from training every 6 to 8 weeks. then the gains come back quickly.
One thing that bothers me …
People are always looking at the training logs and looking at what guys are doing now …
You need to go back and look at what Westside was doing say 10 years ago …
Unless you are and Elite lifter
Bottom line …
Learn how to stain (max effort)
If you are beat up do rep method
Or skip max effort do you low back hamstrings and abs …
Learn how to move the bar fast with perfect form … Most people are very slow … If you are a begginer go by bar speed … Every few weeks change your sets or bar on speed day maybe work op to a single …
Get your trunk strong …
I get phone calls the time …
My squat is stuck at 315
Are you training low back ???
Yes my low back is strong LOL
they show up not only is they low back week looks their squat looks like something out of a bodypump class.
Ends up they can’t even do a back extention with a ten pounds behind there head … Or do a GHR
Train what you suck at … this was the hardest thing for me when I started compeating …
I hated doing things I sucked at I always wanted to look strong …
Put the ego down learn to do it right … When you do rows … use a weight that you can actually contract your back LOL Not a glorified arm curl shrug …
Buy the Westside tapes old ones … Watch and learn … Wendler and I (when he was still in KY) used to sit for hours and watch the tapes over and over again … If you want to get strong you need to watch people that are stronger than you … Get the Chuck XXX video … See what a strong low back really is … Don’t try and do what Chuck does LOL He is not Human … Learn what you can from him …
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID >>>>
Oh and by the way “westide” training uses a pendulum wave
Oh yah and I suck at spelling
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