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Czar Haven't posted much Posts 22	01-05-19 11:15 PM - Post#876075 I may have discovered the Soviet secrets here guys... This is my first week of the 40 day program. Iâ€™m doing the â€œfor dummiesâ€ version of â€œ3 sets of 3. Add weightâ€. What Iâ€™m doing different this time is greatly overestimating my â€œ2nd or 3rd setâ€ weights. Or so I thought. So Iâ€™ve done a cycle of greyskull, then madcow, which morphed into my own custom heavy/light/medium setup. I ended up with my heavy day being 2x5 at 225 for the squat. I had to get pretty amped up for that, and I was wiped out for most of the next week. I just completed my fourth workout this week. 3@135,3@185,3@225. This is more reps at that weight than I did in my HLM program, yet I feel I honestly could do it again tonight, much less tomorrow. I.e. If I do that weight 5 times per week, thatâ€™s 15 reps compared to just 10 on my HLM program. Also excellent results on my struggling bench. I did 3 at 155 today and thought it was too easy. Previous best was 2x5 at 155. Good stuff Dan. Although Iâ€™m afraid that if the first week is going this good, Iâ€™ll probably need to stop it next week. :grimace:

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01-05-19 11:15 PM - Post#876075

I may have discovered the Soviet secrets here guys...

This is my first week of the 40 day program. Iâ€™m doing the â€œfor dummiesâ€ version of â€œ3 sets of 3. Add weightâ€.

What Iâ€™m doing different this time is greatly overestimating my â€œ2nd or 3rd setâ€ weights. Or so I thought.

So Iâ€™ve done a cycle of greyskull, then madcow, which morphed into my own custom heavy/light/medium setup.

I ended up with my heavy day being 2x5 at 225 for the squat.
I had to get pretty amped up for that, and I was wiped out for most of the next week.

I just completed my fourth workout this week. 3@135,3@185,3@225. This is more reps at that weight than I did in my HLM program, yet I feel I honestly could do it again tonight, much less tomorrow.

I.e. If I do that weight 5 times per week, thatâ€™s 15 reps compared to just 10 on my HLM program.

Also excellent results on my struggling bench. I did 3 at 155 today and thought it was too easy. Previous best was 2x5 at 155.

Good stuff Dan. Although Iâ€™m afraid that if the first week is going this good, Iâ€™ll probably need to stop it next week. :grimace:

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