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Originally Posted by Renton555
That seems cool but I don't understand why he should ever be able do so as many as ten reps. I can see going 5, 5, 6 or 7. And if he's doing a formal reset then he should probably stop at the fifth rep anyways since the point of a reset is to allow recovery to take place.
Because if I started gslp by using a weight I could only get 6 or 7 times I would have to reset much more often. By doing it this way the idea is to beat your previous PR for # of reps on the last set at a given weight. As you can see, the weight gets heavy plenty fast even when I reset to such a low weight that I can do it 10+ times on the last set.
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Originally Posted by Renton555
Also it seems like squatting 225 for 5, 5, 6 should be considered thumbs up for going for 227 or 230 next time. I didn't see anything in the greyskull stuff that would consider that a stall.
It's not considered a stall, but if you look at my last couple of squat sessions I dropped off significantly. I did 215 10x, then 220 8x, then 225 6x. I did take a week off after I did 215 10x so I'm guessing that had a lot to do with it. I'm pissed I only got 6 yesterday (I did 225x6 nearly two months ago) so I'm going to do it again monday and hopefully get 8. I know that's not in the program but frack it.
IMO you should switch to GSLP as soon as you start stalling on SS (GSLP is a variation of SS and it's creator used to work with Rip). Definitely buy the e-book if you decide to switch. Any questions you might have are answered in the e-book. Plenty of guys around here (including myself) would be willing to answer any questions about it as well.