Question for Austin on his Training

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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I have a question for Austin about his past training. He made a post detailing this

Day 1: Comp SQ

Day 2: Comp DL 2 @ 7, 75% x 3 reps x 1-2 sets, 70% x 4-5 reps x 2-4 sets. This worked from 280 kg x 2 up through 295 kg x 2, then in the last two weeks I pulled 300 kg x 1, then 312.5 kg x 1 prior to the PR.

Day 3: Supp SQ (pin/paused)

Day 4: Supp DL (paused or deficit): 1 @ 6-7, then backoffs. These started at 4-5 sets of 6 @ 6-7, then gradually decreased to the last week, which was 5 sets of 3 @ <6

Was this the only lower body training you were doing? The BBM templates I’ve run usually have 3 squats a week and 3 pulls (though one is sometimes a row). Also for pressing, I know you have pain while benching which caused training modifications, but if you didn’t would the training look the same (with 3 variations?)

2

The other lower body work was split squats. I didn’t do any other pulling.

And re: bench, yes.

3

One final question. I believe you mentioned something about having to deload/low-stress less frequently. How common were those?

4

I didn’t really need to take any during the duration of the programming as written above. Prior to that I had been doing ramping sets of 6s/5s and tapped out at a 275 kg x 5 deadlift. The next week I felt a bit beat up, and that’s when I switched to the top doubles starting at 280 kg.

5

Are you not training like that anymore?

6

I’m not currently pushing for 1RM performance, so no.

When that time comes again, I would probably use a similar strategy again.

7

Cool, thanks for the answer.