Sorry guys, I've been away on business and just flew back in earlier today... super tired. I'll respond quickly to a few posts and then hope to respond to more when I have the time.
Thanks for the link, will check that out!
I'm curious how it'll turn out for you...
A friend of mine is 68 and has switched to the same program I'm using, but with slight tweaks. To give you a little background, he's been lifting for well over 10-years, hasn't been making progress on the main lifts and at one point we were literally talking about how he should feel happy he's not regressing at his age. After switching to high volume and lower intensity, he's been making amazing great progress. Obviously not as fast as me, due to the fact that he's older and has been training longer, however... he's been hitting PR's @8. So weight he couldn't even pull for a single previously, he's now easily pulling for an @8.
Ryan, yeah, I used to use similar arguments... you can search my post history . Unfortunately, fact is: TM is suboptimal and I'm convinced of it now. On intensity day you're going for a RM, which is by definition RPE 10 (even if it's RPE 9.5-9.75... same difference). The program is trying to force adaptation through intensity instead of volume. It's way low on volume.
I agree that RPE vs non-RPE doesn't matter.. you can program both, but that's not the point at all and that's not what makes this program better. In case I wasn't clear, the benefit of the program is that you can jack up frequency and volume thanks to the lowered intensity.