Hypothetical novice doing HLM

[Matt-Panz]

Hello Andy,

Hypothetically, is it possible that a novice who is doing HLM won't have enough stress to continue on with the program since a novice needs progressively higher weights every 48 hours to increase strength?

Is the purpose of transiting from novice to intermediate to increase total work or make recovery easier?

Thanks,

Matt

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

Possible, but most likely he'd still make progress. It'd just be MUCH slower than it needed to be. The only reason to do this for a novice is if he is trying to balance training with some sort of very demanding sport simultaneously.

[Eric Larousse]

Would that apply to maybe an endurance athlete or triathlete? if not I am curious to know what you do in the way of barbell training for those types?

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

HLM works good. You basically just want to try and organize their conditioning so that they can take a day or two off prior to their heavy squat day.

[Peter_KSB]

Hello Andy,

Hypothetically, is it possible that a novice who is doing HLM won't have enough stress to continue on with the program since a novice needs progressively higher weights every 48 hours to increase strength?

Is it that the novice needs to lift a heavier weight every 48 hours (or so) to drive progress, or that the novice is capable of lifting a heavier weight every 48 hours?

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

A little of both, but more so the latter. I use as evidence the thousands and thousands of lifters who got very strong not using the Starting Strength LP. Most probably squatted heavy less than 3 days per week and still got very strong. But maybe they would have gotten stronger faster training more frequently.