The PTTP book gives several examples of how to cycle.Does someone have experience in power to the people, cycles, adding weight and other.
I suppose this is something that you might work out for yourself within the context of your goals, and revise and update as your experience, going forward, continue to inform your training.Something like this for pttp
+1 to @Adachi's summary.3x5 and pttp. Witch is better for gain strenght faster
-- SS is squat-intensive. This is the main driver of progress. It tends to make you put on weight, and if you're willing to put on weight (caloric surplus), you will get stronger faster. It's more of a "get big and strong" program. Just don't overdo it; i.e. overeat and put on too much excess weight.
Reload is a much more palatable 8 week progression.Starting strength is lower complexity and I think more suitable to most beginner for that reason. If you run it for 12 weeks and are even mildly ambitious with your rate of progression, I suspect you will learn what it's like to grind out some heavy fives. Echoing what others have said, I wager that SS practically demands a hypercaloric diet. Those squats take it out of you.
One final remark is that if I could go back in time when I ran Stronglifts 5x5 a few years ago (very similar to starting strength), I probably would have stopped the linear progression at the 12 week mark, instead of trying to go 20+ weeks with it and getting lots of chronic hip crap from it. Basically it's very easy to "boil the frog" on a linear progression program.
Anyway, I've caught myself rambling again...
Lol... well said, and true. A coach who is familiar with the program and has a broad experience in strength training can definitely help navigate this difficult terrain. In this case they'll probably change it up before it gets too grindy.Basically it's very easy to "boil the frog" on a linear progression program.
Does someone have experience in power to the people, cycles, adding weight and other.
Ha, that's the exact opposite of my impression of the book. I felt Pavel was pretty strict about the fact it has to be a deadlift, and that the progressions were the thing that is more of loose guides to assist as he gives multiple different progressions and even mentions you can combine them in different ways. Funny how we can read the same thing and see it completely differently.I may offer a slightly dissenting opinion.
But I preferred PTTP. Also pttp can be run with squats or any other lift for that matter. It’s a system of progression more so than a set in stone exercises selection.
I would also add that I don’t necessarily think that it has to be pigeonholed into a beginner only type of program. It is something that I will periodically run even to this day. I am not claiming that I am advanced in anyway. But I would also not consider myself a beginner either. I have used it in the past when my squat was in the low three hundreds and I have used it in more recent times when my squat was in the low four hundreds.
All with much success.
Yes I can see how that can be extrapolated.Ha, that's the exact opposite of my impression of the book. I felt Pavel was pretty strict about the fact it has to be a deadlift, and that the progressions were the thing that is more of loose guides to assist as he gives multiple different progressions and even mentions you can combine them in different ways. Funny how we can read the same thing and see it completely differently.