Author Topic: Verkhoshansky 6-week peaking phase  (Read 3652 times)

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Verkhoshansky 6-week peaking phase
« on: February 08, 2011, 10:21:18 pm »
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chezkenny linked me this, said he's really loving his progress on it:

http://ballisticstrength.blogspot.com/2010/01/verkhoshansky-peaking-plan.html

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Re: Verkhoshansky 6-week peaking phase
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2011, 02:35:33 am »
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Interesting volume to intensity transition...
Current PR status:

All time squat: 165 kg/Old age squat: 130 kg
All time deadlift: 184 kg/Old age deadlift: 140 kg
All time bench: 85 kg/Old age bench: 70kgx5reps
All time hip thrust (same as old age hip thrust): 160kgx5reps

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Re: Verkhoshansky 6-week peaking phase
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 05:32:04 pm »
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Hmm...

say i enter 385lbs as my max.

itll take me 6 weeks to hit 405lbs with this.. 20lb gain in 6 weeks? Just over 3lbs a week?

Another thing: I don't like the progression on the final day for the maxing out. 90%x1, 95%x1, 100%x1, 102%x1, 105%x1..
Well, at least for me those final 4 sets wouldn't work too well because I would be a bit burn out:
345x1
365x1
393x1
405x1

I think there's too much space between the 365x1 and 393x1, and also not enough space between the 393 and 405. I would just skip the 102% altogether and lower the 345x1 to 335x1.

From this I'm inferring that 385lbs would be too low of a max to really get a lot out of this peaking phase. Maybe 440lbs and up would be better to try this out?
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