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Originally Posted by dougz

Size is the priority..

I'm still not SURE which program to do..

Hypertrophy (NROL, hpertrophy), or strength (starting strength)..

Strength would be an excellent byproduct, and people (especially powerlifters LOL) say you can't have one without the other..

But I dunno..

You can be freakishly strong, and still look relatively puny..

I want the aesthetic.. A bigger chest (or at least a chest, and not the $#@! bird bath I've got), bigger abs..

So I dunno..

With the strength I've gained so far doing SS I think I could get pretty far with a hypertrophy program before I had to up my strength again to make further muscular gains..

Thoughts?

My goal is strength first and size second. So, obviously I have a bias towards strength. I just feel like you can always get size if the strength is there. But, you can get big and if you stop working out then a year later you're neither stronger or bigger. With strength it carries over to everything you do, and while you can lose strength you'll never completely lose the neurological adaptations. They pathways might be deactivated, but its alot easier for your body to reactivate and quickly gain back that original strength. The same can't be said for size.

I'm reading Power Training by Remedios and Maximum Strength by Cressey right now. I'd like to do Maximum Strength, but I don't have access to all of the equipment that I would need. Power Training is a bit more flexible in terms of its equipment, and its goals. It has hypertrophy and strength and conditioning phases. I've read a few other programs, but so far these are my two favorite. I'm curious about Chad Waterbury's stuff.