My work schedule is starting to conflict with training six days per week - necessary for the rolling split. One of the nice things about high frequency programs like S&S or PTTP is that if you miss a day here and there, it doesn't really effect anything.
I may simply just do all strength work two days per week and two conditioning days so i have more flexibility with my weekly schedule. That's essentially what the last couple years had been and it is easier to sustain for long periods. However, I'll shift those conditioning days to more focus on short duration energy system training and much less on LISS.
I've been Sumo deadlifting for a few months now and I don't care for it. I prefer conventional due to simply the alignment my body takes to display power and strength.
I've been working on wave progressions for a few months and I prefer either longer term step loading or contrast loading working up to a max one day and doing some sort of volume based on that max the other day. Those two can probably exist together by doing a max effort one day and doing a step progression the second day instead of basing the second day in the max day.
When i was doing max effort and dynamic effort, I'm not sure the dynamic effort was contributing as much benefit as a repetition effort would and I've heard of guys like Mark Bell and Matt Wenning say that dynamic effort days aren't very productive for lower level athletes which I would consider myself as.
I've had better success with max effort work and flat step loading more than anything. Both also seem to be more aligned to competitive season training which I'm perpetually in. I feel like I've done so many programs over the last twenty years and I'm just now starting to understand why each one has been good or bad for me at each time.
As a tactical athlete I need a flexible schedule, working close to max at all times, and train strength and conditioning concurrently. Though conditioning doesn't/shouldn't be as opposed to strength as I've historically trained it to be.
I received Q&D recently as a gift and I think it would make a great replacement for what have been historically LISS days. I have some more trialing of it to see if it offers anything over other A+A style efforts.
Overall, I think my training will become less structured and more variable while staying within much narrower perimeters. Lift heavy, comfortably; run fast, comfortably. I once heard a podcast with John Welbourn say something to the effect of, [if you want to be able to lift heavy, then lift heavy. If you want to be able to run fast, then run fast]. Easy enough and I think I am acctually understanding the details involved to implement it.
