re: H&F May Program Party: Pool Season II

W3D1 done yesterday afternoon. The chest and shoulder pump was GREAT!

W3D2 done this morning. Deadlifts felt good. Tested the grip with the pullup/snatch DL superset.

taking it very slow as my upper back and neck have been real stiff and had chiro yesterday so only did bench portion of W2D1.

i will take it slow this week and will just start week 3 next week. then get back on track for june with the program party.

I probably would have done an extra set or two on the arms superset, but my son came in the garage wanting to hit some baseballs. He needs to get his hands above the ball to create a better bat angle to get some lift.

Correct, it's just a PDF. Find your 1 RM and base your training max at 90-95% of that.

I was told to start out with Young grasshopper by others on this board. I then did PS1 and now PS2.

I rally liked Grasshopper, just starting the three days a week we’re good. It goes to 4 days a week in month two.

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If I'd prefer to start at 4 days should I just skip to PS1?

Also are these programs considerably better than just doing a Stronglifts 5X5 type program with some added secondary lifts?

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I'd wait for lsu777 to respond. I've only been lifting a few months and only with the PPSA plans. I've enjoyed them a lot.

Here's a link to the thread where we were voting to see what plan we wanted to run as a group in April.
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I didn’t do the arms as a superset. I was 50/50 if he meant it to be or not.

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If I'd prefer to start at 4 days should I just skip to PS1? Also are these programs considerably better than just doing a Stronglifts 5X5 type program with some added secondary lifts?

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If you are older with kids this ppsa will be better than something like strong lifts, kids are stressors and strong lifts would be hard to recovery from

Start with grasshopper is usually what I recommend but if you really want to go 4 days do grasshopper and just repeat the last 4 weeks twice, then pool season

But I do think you are better off running grasshopper as written then ps1

Also just finished w3d2. Deadlifts are getting real now; 345 heavy single means I am gonna have to invest in more iron soon if I ever want to max out.

Back seems to handle the deadlifts no problem but I did sub in sets of 10-15 chest supported db rows for the 1arms.

I used my cable pulley tower for the hammers (with a rope) and did drop sets on them (70 lbs loaded for 10, 60 lbs loaded for 10, 50lbs loaded for 10) and my biceps were so thick and succulent afterwards.