In Lou's live chat and a couple times on the forum he has mentioned the fact that you (Craig) have designed his workouts for him and its kind of a mix of some Westside stuff and sounds pretty cool. Is there anywhere online I can read about your approach or an outline of the workout?
Another question for Craig - Any chance you are going to offer a special package where you can buy both special reports (Mass gain and Fat loss) together ? I love the system and plan on picking them up in just a bit but if you were thinking of a book with all the workouts in the future I would hold off.
Sorry but one last question but this one is for Craig, Lou, Dos, Brian, Bill, Adam, JP, Alwyn and all the rest of you. Are you guys officially the hardest working people in the field? I go to school and Train people part time, so together they make about a full time day. Between the two of those and my workouts by the time I get home I am pretty tired out. I can't imagine how you guys all keep up websites, write books, and spend a ton of time here. Do you actually have social lives ? Thanks guy.
Danny
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Thats kind of what I thought! Hey Bill, not sure if you saw my post in the Youth section about the new IYCA but any idea when the info on certification and membership will be up? I noticed that you were on the board of directors so I figured you might know. I sent an e-mail to Brian Grasso just in case. Also, what qualifications will a person need to get certified?
Thanks Bill,
Danny
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I read that thread and Lou was talking about total tonnage goals and trying to beat that per week. I have an OL friend whose coach is creating workouts based on monthly tonnage goals and then divided multiple times to configure daily workouts. It seems like an interesting way to do things. Craig if you dont mind, could I see the information as well?
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We aren't working on the exact same idea as the Olympic lifting coach.
Our use of volume is much simpler. On Heavy days (or Max Effort days) we are setting a volume amount that must be met before the max effort lift occurs.
For example, we might aim for a volume of 3 tonnes at greater than ~70% 1 RM on max effort bench day. So for a 300 bencher, we would try to do 225x4, 240x2, 250x2, 265x2, 275x1, 285x1, 295x1, and then attempt 305 or 310.
This idea is taken from an article on elitefts.com - providing I interpreted it correctly. Basically it was said that it is still important to get volume in on a max effort day.
I hope this explanation didn't confuse you any further.
Danny, there's a huge difference between what someone can produce when he controls his own time, and what he can do when other people (teachers, clients) control his time.
Most of my day is my own. I have long-term deadlines for my books, and short-term deadlines for articles, and so I can budget my time so I can hit all those deadlines.
Meanwhile, I have no commute and my gym is 5 minutes away.
Originally posted by DKing: Thats kind of what I thought! Hey Bill, not sure if you saw my post in the Youth section about the new IYCA but any idea when the info on certification and membership will be up? I noticed that you were on the board of directors so I figured you might know. I sent an e-mail to Brian Grasso just in case. Also, what qualifications will a person need to get certified?
Thanks Bill,
Danny
I can't give out too much 'cause Brian is the big cheese and has all the dealines laid out and puts all the info together. I will say that from what I've seen so far and because of the people involved and the resources acquired, it's gonna be big.
I got an e-mail back from Brian earlier today and it does sound pretty awesome. Its my goal to be in the first group certified for the level one, because its going to get big.
Thanks Bill
Danny
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We aren't working on the exact same idea as the Olympic lifting coach.
Our use of volume is much simpler. On Heavy days (or Max Effort days) we are setting a volume amount that must be met before the max effort lift occurs.
For example, we might aim for a volume of 3 tonnes at greater than ~70% 1 RM on max effort bench day. So for a 300 bencher, we would try to do 225x4, 240x2, 250x2, 265x2, 275x1, 285x1, 295x1, and then attempt 305 or 310.
This idea is taken from an article on elitefts.com - providing I interpreted it correctly. Basically it was said that it is still important to get volume in on a max effort day.
I hope this explanation didn't confuse you any further.
Craig
I understand that the approaches are different, I just dont use tonnage as something to aim for in my workouts, at least directly. I may look at what I did last week, for example on bench:
185, 205, 215, 225, 235, 245/3, 255/1, 265/1
Whereas the next week Ill shoot for
205, 215, 225, 235, 245, 255/3, 265/1-2, 275/PR
Im doing more work but not setting a tonnage goal. Just shooting to complete my sets of triples at weights close to my new max.
Anyway, I was just curious about the tonnage approach. Its not something I do directly but end up doing it in some fashion.
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"When you begin to believe nothing is heavy, all weights become light." -Rossbow
"Just remember, somewhere there is a little Chinese girl warming up with your max."-Jim Convroy
"It's a round hole, dammit. Everyone fits."--Anonymous Mod at Strengthmill
? I love the system and plan on picking them up in just a bit but if you were thinking of a book with all the workouts in the future I would hold off.
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