Where does your heavy bench go?
Does anyone have any experience with a TM variation where you do a lower body volume day on monday, an upper body volume day on wednesday and a full body intensity day on friday. It would be a combination of a conventional TM and the four day version. With a focus on the press I'm thinking it could look something like this.
Squat 5×5
Power clean 5×3
Press 5×5
Light bench 3×5
Squat 1×5
Press 1×5
Deadlift 1×5
I haven't found any content about a template like this anywhere even though to me it seems like a pretty reasonable and logical version. Any comments?
Where does your heavy bench go?
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I did something like this for a few weeks at the end of my last TM run and yes it works pretty well. I think what I did was:
M: volume press, volume squat
W: light squat, power snatch, bench (3x5)
F: Intensity press, squat, DL
In this example I was thinking about focusing on only the press and using the bench as a supplemental exercise with lighter weight because I have had some shoulder issues with the bench.
This'll probably work then, but I'd do Monday, Tuesday, Friday instead.
Report back and let us know how it went.
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