re: Pen and Paper Strength App

Yes!
I think Seesaw is fantastic. I ran it 3 months in a row for March, April, May. It’s a 3 day program. Squat/bench every day with occasional deadlift variations (sumo/snatch grip). Not great if deadlifts are your focus. I saw great bench and squat gains.

I feel like the 3 day programs don’t get much love on here. Due to my work schedule 3 day programs work better for me. I rotate seesaw and turnt up (new and remastered) regularly. I also did oak tree a long time ago but wasn’t super impressed. I found myself adding extra accessory lifts.

On a separate note does anyone notice some programs take a really long time to complete? Day 3 of turnt up and some of the stacked/jacked days really take a while to get through. I find it’s easily 2 hrs+ sometimes. I time and track all my workouts on my garmin fenix 7x so I’m keeping my rest times honest. I find I need more warm up sets. For example my bench Tmax is 280 right now. I will do the bar warm up’s as recommended in the program but then I will do 135 2 sets of 10, then 185 for a couple of reps before I get to my working sets. Does anyone else have these issues? I still love the programs but a 2 hr 45 min session in a 85+ degree garage can be rough.

I am older and have a much longer warm up with mobility etc to get me ready to lift so yea some of these get long as shite. S&J and turnt up scare me. Strongville got to be brutal at the end.

Btw glad to have another new guy around in the ppsa threads.

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Most times I just don’t feel I need 3 minutes between sets. shite adds up.

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I get that way at the start of the workout but usually by the superset my watch goes off sooner than I expect.

Still 5'8"?

I've looked hard at seesaw a few times when trying to pick my next one. I like the programming when we've done it in squatober. My biggest fear is length of workouts like the others guys have said. Arm farm and Fillin out the Hoodie have are both about hour and fifteen at the most. I just don't trust myself to wake up early enough to get anything longer than that in consistently. If i don't do it before work it's just too hard with all the kids extracurriculars.

I'm on the last week of Arm farm this week. I did it last month as well. I agree i also had major gains in arms and shoulders and traps. Great workouts. Really enjoy the super set format. Everyone needs to run this one at least once.

I was planning to run arm farm after squatober, is there enough volume to maintain squat and deadlift progress?

Anyone have any recs for an upper body/arms focused 4 day/wk routine to run after Squatober? Would also prefer the workouts stay in the 1 hr range, 1 hr 15 min at most, because I may try to do Rowvember in addition to this workout.

Arm farm!