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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Benefits of Trap-Bar Deadlift
« on: June 19, 2013, 07:48:48 pm »
I have some amazon credit from selling back books and want to buy something for my home gym.  I can get a good trap-bar and am strongly considering it.  I have read before that the trap bar is good for people who have lower back issues.  I don't have lower back issues, but I also don't care about competing in the lifts, so if it is a safer alternative I would be all for it.  Anyway, just wondering what you guys think about it and its uses.

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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Transitioning from Smolov
« on: November 07, 2012, 12:16:58 pm »
I just finished the base mesocycle of smolov on Monday.  As I rest this week, I am wondering what a good way to transition back into the texas-method style training I was doing before would be, so that I can retain most of the gains from the mesocycle.  I came up with these 2 options:

1) Just go back to the texas-method type training and on the squat volume workout just use the same weight from the 7 x 5 as I was during smolov and work from there.  On the intensity day I would work with a weight close to my 3-5 rep max (not sure what it is now post-smolov).

2) Or I was thinking that for 2 weeks I could have some workouts with higher intensity and lower volume then I was doing.  On  both Monday and Friday I could work up to a max single (90-95% of my true max) and then drop the weight by 10% and do 2-3 sets of 2-3 reps.  Reason I though about this was that I want to kind of solidify whatever my new max is.  After these 2 weeks I could go back to the texas-method style training.

Which option, if any, do you think would be better for keeping whatever gains I make from this base mesocycle?  Or do you think I'm over-thinking it, and should just do whatever I feel?

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