Systematic Approach to Tweaking Your Training.

I’ve been following Mike T’s return to the platform with interest and have been fascinated with the way he’s tweaking his programming moving forward based on some conclusions he came to about how he responded to his last period of training. I’m now at the end of the 10 week powerbuiding II template and intend to keep running it until it progress peters out. going into this extra time period of this template seems like a natural point of reflection for me about how I might tweak it for the next few week to months, and have been a bit surprised by the lack of anything approaching a systematic approach I have for this.

There are a couple of obvious take homes - a couple of niggles developing I can probably address by switching to different accessories. I hate the press and dont value it can sub that out for some other form of bench variation. But these are all ad hoc decisions, and ones based on gut feelings and bordem. I understand that individual answers to my training specifically is in coaching territory, but is there any sort of rubric you use, or even just a list of 2-3 questions to ask to help someone make these decisions?​

Limie,

Thanks for the post! I think your questions are best answered by the ebook accompanying the low fatigue template, which captures most of our thoughts pertaining to strength training programming, troubleshooting, and management. I’d check that out here and dig in.

-Jordan

Thanks for the response.

I am probably reasonably described as a frequent over shooter so I had thought about giving this program a try after I finish with this cycle of Powerbuilding II. Looking a the way it’s structured I figured it might give me the sense of having got in all my work, but with the design to help facilitate staying away from the higher RPE efforts. I’ll give it a shot.