LoneRider
Level 6 Valued Member
Greetings,
I'm on active military service (US Army) and when I went home for three weeks to visit my family I elected to stick with an entirely kettlebell based strength training routine (basically the 'Total Package' article formed the guidelines for it). I've been mostly on a barbell based Greyskull Linear Progression (January thru June of this year) before switching to a Wendler 5/3/1 based program (July thru mid-December) for 2019.
I flew back to Hawaii after three weeks and did the obligate 5/3/1 Training Max test (per the latest edition of Jim's work, 5/3/1 Forever). I had expected strength losses across my four main lifts (bench, press, squat, deadlift) of at least 5%-10% and was rather pleasantly surprised. No strength losses at all in the press, deadlift, and squat and only a small loss in the bench press. What the Hell Effect indeed...
I'm on active military service (US Army) and when I went home for three weeks to visit my family I elected to stick with an entirely kettlebell based strength training routine (basically the 'Total Package' article formed the guidelines for it). I've been mostly on a barbell based Greyskull Linear Progression (January thru June of this year) before switching to a Wendler 5/3/1 based program (July thru mid-December) for 2019.
I flew back to Hawaii after three weeks and did the obligate 5/3/1 Training Max test (per the latest edition of Jim's work, 5/3/1 Forever). I had expected strength losses across my four main lifts (bench, press, squat, deadlift) of at least 5%-10% and was rather pleasantly surprised. No strength losses at all in the press, deadlift, and squat and only a small loss in the bench press. What the Hell Effect indeed...