A S/C friend sent me links for learning how to program using Joe Kenn’s Tier system and advising for me to utilize more moderate rep schemes for muscle growth since I’ve been plateaued for several months on SS and BBM intermediate program cycles.
I couldn’t find a previous thread on this forum discussing these methods and comparing them to BBM. I’m learning that everything works but nothing works forever. So Tier, conjugate and BBM seem to be the most adaptable long term programming concepts I’ve come across as they continually mix exercises/variations, rep schemes, intensity and overall volume. I would also be interested in other programming methodology’s that do a good job mixing these variables and showing results.
We’re not familiar with this “tier” system, unfortunately. We’ll see if anyone else around here is.
https://bighousepower.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ppCOACHES.pdf
never heard back on this. Link above is all the info on how to use tier programming.
I’m vaguely familiar with the Tier System. Isn’t it basically a mashup of HLM and conjugate for people who play real (i.e. non-barbell) sports? To my understanding, the “tiers” are exercise slots. Instead of “Heavy - Light - Medium” it’s “Max Effort - Volume - Dynamic Effort” and you’re filling each of those tiers/slots with a full body (cleans, snatches, etc.), lower body (back squats, front squats, etc.), and upper body (bench, OHP, etc.) lift each workout. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong or if my understanding is too basic.
Have you experimented with this training methodology at all since your OP? How did you implement it? What were your results?
I strongly recommend reading or listening to podcasts by Mike Tuchscherer, RTS, and his Emerging Strategies system. It’s not a template or program, more like a philosophy. The central theme is to follow the athlete’s response to training based on the data you collect during training (sets, reps, load, RPE, etc). If something is working, keep doing that until it stops working. When it stops working, make some logical changes based on the evidence you have collected.
The reason I recommend this is that it helped me frame my understanding of programming when I had a lot of the same questions that you posted here.
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