4 - Day Texas Method

[Giri Kotte]

Coach Andy,

Week	Monday		Tuesday		Thursday		Friday
1	Bench Press	5x5	Squat	5x5	Bench	5RM	Squat	5RM
	Press	3x8	SLDL	3x5	Press	5RM	Deadlift	5RM
	Close Grip Bench	3x10	Chin up/Pull up	3x10	LTE	3x10	Weighted Chin up/Pull up	5RM
2	Press	5x5	Squat	5x5	Press	5RM	Squat	5RM
	Bench	3x8	RDL	3x5	Bench	5RM	Deadlift	5RM
	Close Grip Bench	3x10	Chin up/Pull up	3x10	LTE	3x10	Weighted Chin up/Pull up	5RM

I plan to program the 4- day Texas Method this way. Please critique.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

I prefer putting the Bench Intensity w/ Press Volume and Press Intensity with Bench Volume rather than doing all the Intensity and Volume work on the same day.

[LucaTurilli]

I prefer putting the Bench Intensity w/ Press Volume and Press Intensity with Bench Volume rather than doing all the Intensity and Volume work on the same day.

I've done the 4 day split before, and I concur with this. You also always want to put the intensity work first, and the volume work second. The nature of volume on these is typically that, you can still get it in even if you're tired. Intensity work is not the same in my personal experience, especially on OHP.

[Giri Kotte]

I prefer putting the Bench Intensity w/ Press Volume and Press Intensity with Bench Volume rather than doing all the Intensity and Volume work on the same day.

Andy, this the Four-day texas method: version #2 from PP.

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Only changed the last row (of 10 to 15 reps) of the program to suit my home gym set up.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

I've done the 4 day split before, and I concur with this. You also always want to put the intensity work first, and the volume work second. The nature of volume on these is typically that, you can still get it in even if you're tired. Intensity work is not the same in my personal experience, especially on OHP.

Agreed

[Giri Kotte]

I prefer putting the Bench Intensity w/ Press Volume and Press Intensity with Bench Volume rather than doing all the Intensity and Volume work on the same day.

I've done the 4 day split before, and I concur with this. You also always want to put the intensity work first, and the volume work second. The nature of volume on these is typically that, you can still get it in even if you're tired. Intensity work is not the same in my personal experience, especially on OHP.

Agreed

Sorry but I don't think I understand. The program organizes the bench and press volume on Monday and the Intensity on Thursday. Do you mean to say that it should rather be bench ID and Press VD on Monday and Press ID and Bench VD on Thursday? Does the Four-day Texas method: version #2 from PP cater towards to a different purpose than being a general intermediate program?

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

No. The workload is still the same. An intensity and volume session for each lift. This just allows you to train each lift fresh for the intensity day, thus maximizing loading, and avoiding super long sessions where you are doing two lifts for high volume.

[Giri Kotte]

No. The workload is still the same. An intensity and volume session for each lift. This just allows you to train each lift fresh for the intensity day, thus maximizing loading, and avoiding super long sessions where you are doing two lifts for high volume.

Rearranging by that logic;

Week	Monday		Tuesday		Thursday		Friday
1	Bench Press	5RM	Squat	5RM	Press	5RM	Deadlift	5RM
	Press	5x5	SLDL	3x5	Bench	3x8	Squat	5x5
	Close Grip Bench	3x10	Weighted Pull up	3x5	LTE	3x10
2	Bench Press	5RM	Squat	5RM	Press	5RM	Deadlift	5RM
	Press	3x8	RDL	3x5	Bench	5x5	Squat	5x5
	Close Grip Bench	3x10	Weighted Chin up	3x5	LTE	3x10

Does this organization look reasonable?

Notes and observations:
Higher rep sets on press is because your advice to add 10 rep finishers at the end really helped with my press movements. Also, I understand that the presses can tolerate higher frequency/volume anyway.
But this is beginning to look a lot like my three day HLM program spread over 4 days with extra press movements.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

Yes, this looks exceedingly reasonable. Do this for a few months, make only minor tweaks as you go and then see for yourself what you think. You'll never learn what works for you if you don't give something an honest run for a while and then measure your progress. You may find certain elements of this that you really like and want to keep and certain elements you need to modify or discard completely. Of course no static program works forever and everything requires evolution over time, but you have to start somewhere. This is as good a place as any