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Which one? Always curious to here what others are doing with MMA conditioning bc it's such a broad topic.I train a Bellatore fighter and usually did a ton of explosive olympic training. No one could touch his strength. he tried the 20 rep deads and loved it.
Which one? Always curious to here what others are doing with MMA conditioning bc it's such a broad topic.
Good luck! Be careful with the accessory work. Dont use isolation because it doesnt give much in returns as far as growth and the synergy between groups.
Hell I'll send you a great spreadsheet for the 531 that I use. It's very convenient to use and works well.
Here's the address for anyone who wants to use it: http://www.doosoft.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?file=531
Phineas, regarding your new rendition, I think personally, that you're going to overtrain on those reps. I think you need to stick with the way Wendler set it up only because your CNS may be fried in a matter of weeks.
As for your bench, EliteFTS put out a video that I think might be worthy of you taking a look at.
Finally, realize that your gains will be stronger in some areas and not in others. My military press went crazy, as did my deadlift, but my squat and my bench was slower and much more tedious in terms of gains.
These programs all work but they were designed for lifters at much different levels of experience:
SS - for guys who are brand new to barbell training who can make progress each week or even each workout
5x5/531 - for guys who can still make linear progress but have stalled a bit on SS. It allows you to accumulate gains over weeks or months but still lets you make linear progress
Westside - for powerlifters who can't make linear progress anymore. Less experienced guys can use it, but they're going to be doing more work than they need. Also, less experienced lifters struggle with this program because they rarely know their bodies and their lifts well enough to figure out what they need to do. Westside is very flexible - that is both a strength and a weakness of the program.
I like what Rippetoe has to say on this subject. I'm paraphrasing, but his idea is that you don't want to make your training any tougher or more complex than it needs to be. If you can still make progress on a simple program, there's no reason to introduce complexity into it.
That's another thing; cutting tends to lose a bit of strength. I'd stick with what you're doing, but just realize that you have a weak area and that you're cutting as well.
I find 5/3/1 extremely enjoyable because of the simplicity of it. I like the fact that some days I'm pressed for time so all I have to do is do my main lift and get out (guilt free).
At first I didn't feel there was enough intensity in the workouts, but lately as the weight has gone up I've really started to enjoy them. I even started wearing a heart rate monitor whilst lifting and the other week I repped out 9 deadlifts @ 127.5 kg and when finished my heart rate was 171bpm, truly recked me.
Been telling everybody about it!!!
I also like having all the weight for my sets pre-determined. No guess work.
Thanks, Jugg.
I'm being very careful to cover all the bases in terms of macros, supplements, recovery, etc. I'm also not falling into the "upping the cardio" mentality. In fact, I've decreased my running, and I'm training for a 10k lol. It's okay though my main training is done so two very short distance sprints are all I need at this point as it's 1 month away as of today. Basically I can just "refine".
I'm following Built's fewer meals approach. I used to always doubt it not because I thought she was wrong (that's impossible lol) but because I couldn't see myself going for so long without a meal on so few calories. Well smack my ass and call me a mormon, it works! 3 meals and 1 snack works very well. I don't have breakfast until about 4 hours after I wake up and shockingly I feel great.
I opted for the low volume, heavy lifting because (a) I've always read that's the way to train on a cut and (b) when cutting I can still train hard but I just don't have the same stamina. Low rep heavy work never fazed me much or give me much DOMS, either. The day after a heavy squat workout I'm less sore than I would be after a higher rep workout. Go figure....
Do you use carbs centered around your workout? I usually keep my carbs preworkout and right after. This will help you to bring in more adequate energy, especially on a cut. I then add my fat and protein only to my other meals. Ask Built about her carb cycling methodology. It's great. I use it.
I'm the opposite; I NEED carbs in the morning-getting up at 3:30 sucks ass. But I train a few people and then I train at 7am. I will have oatmeal or some type of carb and then after my workout, I'll have All in 1 and some more oatmeal. But that's about it. it encompasses about 200g of carbs within a four and a half hour window and then I'm done for the day with carbs. But I get what you're saying about volume. I should also mention that I only take in 66g on my non-lifting/cardio only days.
Out of curiosity, what are your total calories and macros for high carb and low carb days when cutting?