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Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion / Re: WTF my squat dropped ~70lbs!!!
« on: January 20, 2012, 08:26:32 pm »Your programming looks weird. 2 heavy singles per week is not enough for most people to maintain their squat. Your training frequency declined as well. So your deloading-schedule might have been the cause for the decline in squat numbers.
The ongoing decline is probably because of your setup being not suitable for your training advancement. The 355 x 5 x 3 you have been doing would have felt heavy for most people with your strength. You are not adapted to doing heavy sets with 5ths, because you have been doing 7ths before at lighter weights. So that is not really strange. That the numbers got down further might just be an indicator of you not being able to recover from the current schedule which, again, is plausible. You are an intermediate trainee and going for 5 x 3 twice per week might just be too much, especially without recovery day.
My advise would be a Texas method setup from now on. You can keep the sets across with 5s on Monday, put a light day in there and go for high weights, low volume on Fri/Sat. You might find that much more easy to recover from and you get enough squat practice to progress further.
Thanks for the reply. The only then left is recovery/neural strength which I just posted up there ^^ must be from the de-load.
I think I'll have to give it some time to get my body used to the 3x5 again, but the thing is, I went from 405x4 to 355x5 and that was before having possible recovery problems from doing 3x5 twice a week.
Edit: nvm I see what your saying. Cause of first decline = weird deload. Cause of ongoing deload = body not recovering from 3x5 twice a week.
Looks like I'll have to switch to an intermediate squat program for sure. Texas method sounds good, 5/3/1 sounds great also. My friend has the entire book.
