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Originally Posted by SmileyEH
How do you like your strength programming?
I would go completely nuts doing so little near maximal work. I admire your maturity!
I think I liked Bulgarian style programming better, but honestly I don't know if my body could take it over a long term - I've only done one Bulgarian cycle, which wasn't really max effort because 1) I was (and still am) such a novice I wasn't using very heavy weights and was limited by form and 2) we cut that cycle a little short because of a comp at the end of January.
Again, not to over focus on my novice status, but maybe being new it helps my form to work at sub-maximal weights with higher volume as we've been doing. To be honest, I don't know.
I think there's merit to those who say that working off %s is unoptimal as one day you'll feel much stronger than another. Another (related) drawback of the current programming is that I also occasionally have a hard time determining current 1RMs, not just day-to-day, but month-to-month/overall as well.
I was disappointed my gym was closed yesterday, as it's "open gym" and I wanted to test 1RM snatch, c+j, hbbs.