Originally Posted by
Snake Plissken
Andy Baker's Annual Periodization articles are pretty clear cut, but they're also just an example of what he would do.
The takeaway is over time you want to keep things novel by doing periods of higher volume at lower intensities and periods of higher intensities and lower volumes (mainly to realize your gains and prevent burnout/repeated bout effect).
I've never purchased an Andy Baker program, but from what I understand the GGW programs are essentially powerbuilding and use the 852 setup. You sort of have 3 different powerbuilding programs listed.
For annual periodization, a lot of people like to do hypertrophy (higher volume, lower intensities) for 2-3 months followed by powerbuilding or strength focus (Mod volume, mod-high intensities). With that said, I've heard many good things about GGW, but if you don't want to do powerbuilding yet, you could look into the different HLM schemes out there. Bill Starr has some amazing articles about HLM and how to titrate workload over time to build progress. Don't expect to run Texas Method and make any gains for the long term.