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After looking at the bridge 2.0 more closely and using the 12 week strength template as a reference I noticed that the first 4 weeks of training for accessories are variations were you can do heavier weight than you can during the next 4 weeks, ex. Rack pulls first 4 weeks vs 2ct paused deadlifts for the next 4 weeks. My question is if this is a kind of strategy to teach the lifter to deal with heavy weights vs focusing on form or if its kind of too have a heavy month vs a lighter month overall? Hopefully that makes sort of sense

Side question, the example for this in the bench press during the bridge 2.0 was floor press the 4 weeks vs 2 ct paused bench press for the next 4 weeks, if the goal is to overload the bench 4 would be ok to switch the lift for slingshot bench or is does it too different from floor pressing? My gym doesn’t let me floor press…

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Hey Diego, from what I have gathered from what Jordan and Austin have posted on the subject is that that the variations are set up from least specific to most specific over time. From my understanding, the overload movements just so happen to be the least specific movements, so the pattern of overload to underload is more of a side effect than the main point. Also, a mid shin rack pull without belt isn’t an overload movement for all people, a lot of people actually report that they lift slightly less or equal to their deadlift. There was a thread in the moderated training forum about a month ago or so that Austin went pretty deep into this. As for your second question, yes you could replace floor press with a slingshot on the first 4 weeks.