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Hey Peeps -- I thought I'd give you a look into the strength training over the next 14 days. There's lots of RM's in there. You may or may not be feeling ready to crush things. That's cool. If it's a light or medium week for you...make the adjustment. For example - a 2RM day can become a heavy double day. Heavy double days can become 83%x2x4 or 85%x2x3 or 75%x2x5 for lighter workouts.

Here's the next 10 days of strength training:

Movement / Reps
front squat / 2RM
deadlift / otm
back squat / 5x2
push press / otm
snatch / 2RM
front squat 2RM
power clean + clean / 1RM
NONE
Snatch balance / 1RM
back squat / 5x2
jerk / 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
deadlift / 5RM
front squat / 2RM

Regardless of the schedule you follow, you'll get a nice mix of lifts. How you approach the loads / reps though is something you can and should have a plan for.

Jim Schmitz, a USAW coach legend has this to say about instinctively training / periodizing -- something most of you CFD peeps will be doing since we don't have everyone on the same schedule:

So, if you don’t want to get into detailed periodization and you want to train how you feel (instinctive), that’s fine. However, you should know some basic training periodization principles which will make your training more productive. We all know you must train hard, but how many of you know that you must train medium and light, too? I know many think light workouts are like not working out at all and not worth the time, but that is absolutely incorrect. Light workouts speed up recovery faster than not working out at all. 

Also, you can’t go workout after workout, week after week, for months on end training at your absolute hardest—you’ll burn out or get injured. Therefore, I recommend that you have one light week (50–70%) and one medium week (70–80%) every month and one heavy week (80–90%) and one maximum week (90–100+%), and that you don’t do two heavy workouts back to back; have at least one day off in between or a very light workout. There are several ways to arrange your weeks. One is to go light, medium, heavy, then maximum, and then back to light. Another way is to go medium, heavy, light, then maximum, and then back to medium. 

Also, find out which day of the week you are your strongest and have the most energy. We all have certain days of the week where we will have better workouts due to school, job, or family obligations. Find your day and train your hardest then. Even though this is supposed to be instinctive training, you really do need some plan for your best workouts. If you just train hard when you feel like it, that is okay, but remember, you must have light and medium workouts and weeks. If you don’t, nature will dictate to you through injuries, soreness, and fatigue, and force you to train light to medium or not train at all. 

The most important thing for instinctive training is knowing your body and listening to it. It takes time to learn how to train instinctively, so be aware of your body and its aches and pains, and your energy. I do recommend using a training log book to keep records of your workouts, because “the dullest pencil is better than the sharpest memory.”

From IronMind.com : Jim Schmitz on Training Instinctively



 

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