Originally Posted by
Gyftomancer
I plan to start a 4-day TM and I am very concerned (and confused) about the 5x5 squats (or maybe bench too).
As far as I know, the VD is required to produce a desired amount of stress in order to lift more the ID. To do that, the weight in 5x5 has to increase too. That means that if the weight in 5x5 stops increasing it might be hard to increase the weigh in 1x5 as well. However, I read that it can be a mistake to linear progress at 5x5. Thus, you have to manage the weight somehow and not increase it every week.
Thus, my question is: how can you handle the 5x5 weight increment in order to help ID, but without stalling on VD first?
If you stall on VD, you might lower it to 4x5, but not less since this would not be considered a VD. Moreover, if you can do a 4x5 but still can't increase the weight this means that you can't produce the required stress to progress on ID, right?
I know about dropping to two 3s, three 2s , etc on ID, but I was thinking that this is more appropriate if you fail to ID because of the high intensity, not because a problematic volume day, meaning that, if you stall on ID that might be because of the not good amount of stress produced on VD, thus, more load would be required on VD!
Your thoughts please?