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Originally Posted by saw7988
+1 to all of this.
What's your reasoning for the physique statement? Just because less chest? I'd probably agree, just wondering.
Yep, less chest. Less pump when you're finished with it=probably less good at building physique. Sorry, rippetoe.
I guess also it feels like a great deal more of energy is exerted stabilizing using lower body muscles than actually taxing upper body pretty beach muscles. On the other hand it's not uncommon for abs to be sore after this lift and with heavy weights and some layback it's definitely going to be a good chest workout. And also on the other hand, Klokov presses regularly but doesn't bench regularly and he has an ideal chest. And finally, there's nobody alive who can ohp a lot of weight who can't bench a lot as well, yet there are many who can bench a lot and can't do standing ohp with much weight.
I'm ambivalent on cosmetic effects of pressing vs benching, but pressing surely wins on coolness factor. Like HBBS or FS wins on coolness vs LBBS.
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Originally Posted by Montecore
Evo,
You're probably right, and I've never even tried maxing out press so who even knows. Regardless, hopefully I can get up to doing a 155 workset before I have to reset again. Throwing a plate and a half over my head eventually would be pretty cool, though.
I will say that I had your multiple past posts in mind about what your entry level program would look like when I threw this together, so I guess it's a good thing you like it. If I can stay in the 190-195 weight range and get my squat worksets in the 1.5x BW range and my DL (3 rep) worksets in the 2x BW range, that'll be a pretty big accomplishment given my past, shall we say, issues. Three days lifting as opposed to four is probably going to be easier for me in terms of recovery, in any case, and this still has plenty of upper body volume imo.
I've posted a lot about entry level programming for the brah looking to both linearly increase barbell compounds but also develop a good physique despite a lack of first hand experience, I'm glad to have somebody test out my hypothetical musings. The only thing I'm not sure about in retrospect is the high frequency pullups. You hear about gymnasts doing ungodly pullup/pushup/dip volume every day and think its a good idea, but these guys aren't also pressing, benching, snatching, or jerking regularly. You don't want to end up with permanent pec tendon like me or elbow problems like busto though. I mean you can still do it, just be careful and don't try to train past pain.
Last edited by Evoken; 03-01-2014 at 10:00 PM.