HFM for Powerlifters

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

Rip,

Came across some online interview with you (don't remember interviewer) and you talked about wanting to expirement with the HFM model on powerlifters. Are you looking for volunteers, I don't have any experience with this model?

[Mark Rippetoe]

I'm not looking for dammit. I don't know that it would work at all, and I'm afraid it would kill you. The difference in the quality of work between the explosive lifts and the absolute strength movements probably makes HFM useful only to Olympic lifters. Maybe you could read up on this and try it on yourself, but if you die I don't want your wife pissed off at me.

[TomF]

WTF is HFM?

[Mark Rippetoe]

Read the book. PPST.

[bango skank]

you crazy kids today with your acronyms...

[TomF]

Ah, "Hormone Fluctuation Model." Well beyond any training needs of mine.

Even if that wasn't true, with a teenaged daughter and a wife going through menopause, possibly the last thing my household needs is someone else with wildly fluctuating hormones.