Another Wendler Book

[Dag]

When my gf started lifting with me, she put a 25 on backwards like that. I said, "Oh you're one of them?" "One of who?" she asked? "A backwards plate loader."

A gentleman nearby overheard, laughed and agreed with me.

[Meshuggah]

This is a battle I've always had with my sons. They like numbers facing inward, I like numbers facing outward.

[Kregna]

When my gf started lifting with me, she put a 25 on backwards like that. I said, "Oh you're one of them?" "One of who?" she asked? "A backwards plate loader."

A gentleman nearby overheard, laughed and agreed with me.

Hope you mean your ex-girlfriend

[Dag]

Hope you mean your ex-girlfriend

Chest on me, steal from me, call me names but DO NOT LOAD THE PLATES BACKWARDS!!

In reality, she's way better than I deserve and I'm a lucky man. [emoji4]

[The_GOAT]

This plate-in nonsense is new to me.

[Charlie Davies]

I hope someone buys the book, reads it, and posts a cogent review.

Wendler is a cool guy, and even though I've not had success with 5-3-1 it's my own fault -- I was not the target audience.

[JLB105]

Wendler is a cool guy, and even though I've not had success with 5-3-1 it's my own fault -- I was not the target audience.

What is the target audience?

[Charlie Davies]

What is the target audience?

Non-geriatric non-beginners.

I got stuck and injured doing SS and switched to 5-3-1. Then made little progress for months.

What I *needed* was a coach to fix my squat, and then to run SS very slowly to fit my old-guy recovery budget. Then a very careful and gradual transition to a moderate-volume weekly intermediate program like Heavy-Light.

Messing around with advanced programming while still squatting incorrectly and nursing the resulting raging tendonitis was a huge waste of time for me. But not Jim Wendler's fault.

[SJB]

Target audience is everybody who will purchase, so many reports of people having tried 5/3/1 and made no progress, not enough frequency or volume, if you can get 8 on the + plus set what training effect did the first two sets have?

[silachoo]

Target audience is everybody who will purchase, so many reports of people having tried 5/3/1 and made no progress, not enough frequency or volume, if you can get 8 on the + plus set what training effect did the first two sets have?

Confidence under the bar, more practice on the lift, and also just good ol' fashioned effort on AMRAPS seems to drive progress well for me. (I have never done 5/3/1)