Originally Posted by
marcf
I wouldn't say that HLM is basically TM. If we're talking about the generic TM template of volume/light/intensity day. Cramming all the volume into one day might be hard to recover from, but spreading it over three days probably isn't so bad.
Say you did Starr [135, 225, 275, 310, 330] x 5, that's 6,400 pounds of volume at wildly varying intensities. Let's say 330x5 was your 5RM and 385 was your e1RM, you could probably handle taking 75% of that for 5x5, or 290x5x5, which is 7,250 pounds of volume. That's more volume at a pretty manageable intensity.
With the ascending/ramping sets of 5, your first two working sets of 5 don't even break the 60% mark of your estimated 1RM.