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12-20-19 12:50 AM - Post#891592
I just had an idea. If this already is the point of ES and I just didn't realize it, please tell me.
So, say you do ES Mon Tue Wed Fri Sat and you do something like:
10-25 reps goblet squat
10 reps deadlift
10 reps overhead press
10 reps pull ups
Could you then, from time to time, add other exercises to the mix? Let's call them modules.
Say one module is doing curls for sets of 8, then you can, for a month or two, do curls on Wednesdays and Saturdays after your ES session (since the next day is a resting day anyway). One module could be doing complexes, another heavy squats. I don't mean that you do all this at once, but that you have a possibility to exchange these modules while always keeping the ES base. So ES is your strength base that you never change and then you change other things just to spice things up.
And thank you Andrew Gunn for your encouraging words!
The whole point of ES is taking care of your strength needs, so you can keep practicing your main sport with almost no impact.
Adding some plug-ins after ES defeat the purpose of the program (which is to be GPP oriented and quite minimalistic).
If you want to add curls, do them as a part of the program: substitute the pull ups for curls, do a couple of 40 day cycles that way and see what happens.
If you want to do heavy squats... well, choose another program. You can substitute deadlifts for squats for a few cycles, but neither of them should be heavy (then again, the whole point of ES is being easy).
Ideally, you should finish every session feeling fresh. So fresh, in fact, that you could do it again no problem.
"I think we often spend too much time focusing on max fitness
and not nearly enough on maintaining our minimums.
It seems we need to think sustainable rather than obtainable.
Meaning whatever we do today, we can do it again tomorrow.
Never taking so much from ourselves that we can't."
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