Tuesday, December 2, 2008

A/B/C Program: Adjustment

Some adjustments with notes. Again, this is for raw PL/general strength gain. No gear except belt on one day (HAH). Eat like a starving wolf or you will break.

Differences:
- Read Starr's article on programming mistakes, he recommends putting the quick lifts first. I agree; I've been putting power cleans last, and about 1/3 of the time I run out of energy by that time. I can gut through some slow lifts at that point, but not so much on power cleans. Switched to first thing on Wednesday.
- Added high-rep (sets of 8) Starr Good Mornings and Stiff-Leg DLs to improve lumbar weak point
- Switched "heavy" day (i.e 3-2 rep squatting) to Monday, when I am (usually) freshest.
- Canned wide-grip bench press after reading Starr's article on shoulder girdle stabilization. Will use Medium (straight arms) grip instead. That's fine since I've done 330 with straight arms (and almost killed Kyle doing it, HAH).
- Switched from alternating sequence of Flat/Overhead press to Flat/Dumbbell/Overhead press 1x/week each. My bench is too high to recover effectively from the alternating sequence.
- Added the dumbbell presses on Wednesday and made them high-rep.

Week A:
#1
Shoulder-Stance Back Squat: 3x3
Medium-Grip Bench Press: 3x5
Stiff-leg DLs: 3x8

#2
Power Clean: 5x3
Front Squat: 3RM
Dumbbell Bench Press: 3x8

#3
Shoulder-Stance Back Squat: 3x5
Standing Barbell Overhead Press: 4x4
Chin-ups: 4x4

Week B:
#1
Shoulder-Stance Back Squat (Belt): 3x2
Medium-Grip Bench Press: 3x3
Conventional Deadlift (Belt): 1x3

#2
Power Clean: 7x2
Front Squat: 2RM
Dumbbell Bench Press: 3x5

#3
Shoulder-Stance Back Squat: 3x5
Standing Barbell Overhead Press: 3x5
Chin-ups: 3x5

Week C:
#1
Power Clean: 5x1
Front Squat: 1RM
Medium-Grip Bench Press: 3RM

#2
Shoulder-Stance Back Squat: 5RM
Standing Barbell Overhead Press: 5RM
Starr Good Mornings: 3x8

2 comments:

Kyle said...

LOL. Your Medium Grip Bench is pretty powerful Phil.

What exactly are Starr Goodmornings? Does it refer to a specific technique, or just the rep range/sets that you do them?

Phil Russell said...

Named after how Bill Starr describes them (though no pigeon toes). So basically, as strict/low as possible. No wide-stance pseudo-squatting.