12 Week Strength Template Exercise Question

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Just coming off the 4 Day Hypertrophy Template and currently working through the 12 Week Strength.

Week 1 Day 3 calls for beltless squats. Wondering if I can swap in HBBS instead?

I understand we are free to make whatever changes we want in theory but the exercise selection, volume and organization of the template is purposeful so I wasn’t sure if it made sense from a programming standpoint.

I guess, my real question is, does the HBBS make sense from a programming standpoint as far as achieving meaningful volume and useful stress are concerned in the way the program was designed?

I’m working through an issue whereby squatting without a belt, for whatever reason, produces a brief tingling/shock sensation on the anterior surface of my left quad.

As Jordan say; “But what are you gonna do, not train?” - So I’ve essentially just continued to train with a belt whenever I squat.

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Yes, that should be just fine – as it sounds like you’d be able to train more productively (i.e., without those uncomfortable symptoms) with that substitution.

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butchering this thread for another 12w strength template question:

I’m almost done with it and what I can definitely say is that I hate touch and go bench. I’m not really stronger at all compared to my 1ct pause bench, I think mainly because not pausing throws off my movement pattern. I guess touch and go is in the program to have a “overload” variation. As I can’t really move more weight, would it make sense to substitute slingshot bench for touch and go if I rerun the program?