John Broz

[MJ.23]

I especially like this quote:

"Look at the overall IDEA of the training, interpret it and see how you can apply it to your own training. To me, it’s not about squatting every day or doing two workouts a day. It’s about realizing that the human body is much more capable of stress than most of us think. I don’t read an article by Mike Boyle and get all mad because it’s NOT what I do; I read it and try to figure out how single-leg training can be used in my own programming."

If you do not want to squat every day then that is fine; but your body is more than capable of repeating exercises multiple times per week.

The biggest issue with adapting this for a powerlifting/strongman programme is the clash with deadlifts as well as everything else that must be done. I deadlift 3 times a week and my hamstrings were getting fried by also squatting 3 times in a row. At his gym they get most of their pulling from cleaning and snatching which is well below their deadlift maxes. I will find a way to adapt my training to squat multiple times a week as well as keep the deadlifting up.

[SpiderDan]

Thats precisely it, things can be a bit sore, tight and tired but it doesnt mean they cant work, you just have to build your conditioning level to suit the workload. The thing is though you have to be able to recognise when to back off a little and not let your form compromise which will lead to injury, especially if you're squatting 7 sessions a week.

Yes Pat Mendez does 13 sessions a week but he also gets coached (as far as im aware) for all of them. He is told when to stop when things get too sloppy, If you're maxing every session I'd have thought it can be quite easy for someone without someone watching to push it too far.

[PROF]

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Thats precisely it, things can be a bit sore, tight and tired but it doesnt mean they cant work, you just have to build your conditioning level to suit the workload. The thing is though you have to be able to recognise when to back off a little and not let your form compromise which will lead to injury, especially if you're squatting 7 sessions a week.

Yes Pat Mendez does 13 sessions a week but he also gets coached (as far as im aware) for all of them. He is told when to stop when things get too sloppy, If you're maxing every session I'd have thought it can be quite easy for someone without someone watching to push it too far.

After I switched from a low bar parallel squat to a high bar full squat my numbers were down, I was reading alot of John Broz and I implemented squatting two times a week, then three before finally squatting every session (5-6 times per week) following the bulgarian wave loading (i.e. ramp up in sets of 3, ramp up in sets of 2, ramp up to a top rep, back of 20 kg perform 3sets of 3, add 5-10kg, performs 2sets of 2). Although my weights dropped for a period of time they did start to go back up as I got used to frequency of training, however I didn't make any PRs because around the 3rd month when I was finally getting used to squatting everyday almost and deadlifting at least once per week, my back started to get tight, chronic muscle tightness together with a mild tweak on a deadlift warmup lead to total back meltdown.

It's not a very forgiving method in terms of injury and when you combine it with a single minded person (me) who find it hard to know when enough is enough it can be problematic. Had I been smarter about my approach and been objective enough to know when I needed to back of I could have done that indefinitely. However training alone, without the guidance of a coach can make this approach difficult to master.

Nevertheless I did accumulate a good amount of stretch marks on my VMO, which is always nice.

I reckon if I were to run this again I would be able to make it work, I just could not see the warning lights coming on and was stupid enough to train through a small injury which then blew up in my face. I think it would also help to get have a monthly meeting with a physio.

[reiyushin]

One downside I've noticed is my deadlifts have plummeted though if my squat gains are anything to go by I'm sure my DL will have improved once I stop this program and go back to my normal ways