Developing your training program

[P-funk]

Hey guys, just wrote a new article for Ironmag. It is the start of what will be about a 3-4 piece series on how to set up 4-week blocks of training, and string them together into a full program based on your needs/goals.

Here is part 1 - Understanding the 4-Week Block: Advancing Our Training Program

Part 2 - Understanding the 4-Week Block - Part 2: Goals and Organization


enjoy,

Patrick

 

[gtbmed]

Thanks, good read.

 

[nkira]

Nice one......one CAN NOT go wrong with this, looking forward to sequel's......

After reading the article few of my questions surely got answered

Thanks again.

 

[gtbmed]

Reading this article makes me think more highly of things like Bill Starr's program, which is, in a lot of ways, based on things like this.

Progressive loading for 4 or 5 weeks, a bit of deloading, then intensification.

 

[P-funk]

Reading this article makes me think more highly of things like Bill Starr's program, which is, in a lot of ways, based on things like this.

Progressive loading for 4 or 5 weeks, a bit of deloading, then intensification.

I am a huge fan of the Starr program - especially when starting out.

The biggest problems with it was addressed in my article.

1) What do you do when it stops working?

2) After a certain point, doing all the same set and rep ranges and intensity for every exercise becomes difficult because your first exercise takes the brunt of the work and everything else suffers.

So, my article series is really about developing a program that moves you forward. How do you take your goals and put them down into a training program that reflects that.

Patrick

 

[gtbmed]

Yeah, I think I'm somewhat to that point with Starr's program - the first lift I do is almost always strong, but the lifts done after that are considerably tougher because the first set is just too difficult.

I try to keep the ramped sets first, simply because I think it's taxing to try and lift up to a 5RM after doing 5x5 volume. I also try to vary which lifts are first from week to week to offset this problem a bit.

 

[P-funk]

Part 2 is up for anyone interested - Understanding the 4-Week Block - Part 2: Goals and Organization


Enjoy,

patrick

 

[yellowmoomba]

Good info P

 

[P-funk]

thanks. glad you liked it.

patrick

 

[so1970]

i guess i joined too late i cant locate the links on this page

 

[BulkMeUp]

i guess i joined too late i cant locate the links on this page

Search and ye shall find

Understanding the 4-Week Block

 

[so1970]

Search and ye shall find

Understanding the 4-Week Block

thanx this one came up

 

[icecube789]

Thanks for the info.

 

[mooner]

good post.