Hi Mark,
In your book SS you mentioned that the exercises in the program should be performed in that order, but I have a question regarding squatting first.
The idea of doing-what-is-harder first makes sense to me, but some strength coaches (which are not as smart as yourself, but they are still respected) claims things such as this:
“No matter how hard and heavy is your bench/press, it will never screw up you squat. But virtually every heavy squat will screw up your bench/press”
The argumentation here is that heavy squats screws heavy bench due to their longer ROM and the absolute weight involved. So even though they are two very different movements, as you always pointed out, your body is a system, and energy is energy. So supposably the “squats takes away energy” and screws benches and presses.
So the my question is: is this bullshit? Or it does make sense swap the order of the exercises and leave squats for last?
PS: the main reason I’m asking is that I would never modify your master piece without your consensus. I might be old fashion on this.